…draft law still has to receive parliamentary approval. Achmea’s new notice of arbitration dated 6 February 2013 appears to be a direct reaction to the new regulation that may be…
…Chapter 1: Overview of International Commercial Arbitration Part I – International Arbitration Agreements Chapter 2: Legal Framework for International Arbitration Agreements Chapter 3: International Arbitration Agreements and the Separability Presumption…
…against India under Paragraph 2(b) of Annexure G to the Treaty. The Court of Arbitration consisted of seven members, namely; Judge Stephen M. Schwebel (Chairman), Sir Franklin Berman KCMG QC,…
The U.S. Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) provides that a federal district court may vacate an arbitration award, among other reasons, “where there was evident partiality or corruption in the arbitrators.”…
…of the Australian Government’s resolution to no longer include investor-state dispute settlement provisions in BITs and FTAs, a decision which sent shockwaves throughout the international arbitration community and placed a…
The ICC Institute of World Business Law has launched the 2013 edition of the Institute Prize for dissertations and essays on international commercial law, including arbitration, for anyone under the…
A new study of dispute resolution practices in Fortune 1,000 corporations shows that many large companies are using binding arbitration less often and relying more on mediated negotiation and other…
…of First Instance relates to the enforcement of a trilogy of awards rendered under the Arbitration Rules of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) International Court of Arbitration in Paris…
…206; See also Smutny & Polášek, Unlawful or Bad Faith Conduct as a Bar to Claims in Investment Arbitration in Werner & Ali (eds.) A Liber Amicorum: Thomas Wälde Law…
…bring about against the background of the same example. While arbitration has been excluded from Brussels I, some grassroots of arbitration concern seem to creep in. Given the natural interrelation…
…for a new arbitration law that could bring to Portugal a regulatory framework closer to the UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration. The goal was not only to make…
Construction work at the Florence Chamber of Commerce has forced the city’s arbitration and mediation services to relocate to new offices the city was able to scrounge up. View from…
…arbitrators and arbitration law firm partners graduated at a time when proportionally fewer women entered legal practice Party appointment system that enforces the status quo by favoring an elite handful…
…new set of rules (the “2012 ICC Rules”). The 2012 ICC Rules include Rules 1(2) and 6(2) which state: The [International] Court [of Arbitration] is made the only body authorised…
…of the more sensitive issues, subject to long litigation sagas – arbitration – Regulation 44/2001’s position remains unmoved: arbitration still falls outside the scope of the Regulation and the recognition…
…Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Rwanda, Seychelles, Sudan, Swaziland, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe. The CCIA Agreement seeks to offer a new model of and approach to investor-state arbitration,…
…the north, the Arbitration Foundation of Southern Africa (AFSA) in the south, and more recently the London Court of International Arbitration in Mauritius (LCIA-MIAC) in the east. In Western and…
…jurisdictions worldwide, Hong Kong adopts the UNCITRAL Model Law as part of its legal framework for arbitration, through the Hong Kong Arbitration Ordinance (Cap. 609)). In a controversial judgment in…
…from the arbitration institution confirming that the award had been notified to A., and an affidavit from an English lawyer stating that the award had become final and enforceable under…
…by affected (third) parties in relation to damages caused by the various competition law infringements outlined above. Read in context with the remaining provisions of the new Law, this provision…
…the beginning of new friendships, new skills, more knowledge, formal victory notwithstanding. The lesson we all derive from participation is that success depends on enthusiasm and common effort. Stay challenged….
We’ve had a great response from our readers on our very first poll. But, perpetual strivers that we are, we’d like to receive even more responses! If you haven’t already,…
Gary Born’s latest addition to the international arbitration literature, International Arbitration: Law and Practice, is a nice bookend to his magisterial two-volume work on the same subject. Rather than simply…
…in the context of BIT arbitration and argues that there is now uniform agreement among federal courts that investment arbitration panels are “international tribunals” within the meaning of Section 1782….
