…Guy Pendell, underscores an important weakness in the international arbitration system’s legal framework. While everyone accepts that the arbitration agreement is the foundation of an international arbitral tribunal’s adjudicative power,…

During a bitter battle with anti-doping authorities, international cycling champion Lance Armstrong publicly campaigned against the anti-doping arbitration process. Armstrong’s offensive provides insights into widespread misconceptions about arbitration. On 20…

Monday’s New York conference on “Arbitration with States and State Entities under the ICC Rules” got me thinking about the possibility of amicus submissions in investment cases before the ICC…

…between international arbitration and litigation. Thus, if the claimant decides to refer a dispute to arbitration, the arbitral award should not be vulnerable to being challenged on the basis of…

…the international arbitration community is ready for the Project. State parties in investment arbitration have become more assertive. They are less tolerant of information asymmetries that systematically benefit law firms…

…Commerce arbitration awards against the Democratic Republic of Congo (the ‘DRC’) and attempted to enforce those awards against Gécamines, a DRC state owned corporation and its Jersey-based assets (to the…