…arbitration as currently constituted is not a fair, independent, and balanced method for the resolution of investment disputes. The Statement recommends that governments: should review their investment treaties with a…
…G”) that centralizes arbitration matters. The list is managed by a judge with international arbitration experience who, along with several other commercial judges, will hear all arbitration-specific cases. India: At…
…be finally established as a country friendly towards arbitration […].” 1)Mgalobishvili/Kiknavelidze, The legal framework of arbitration in Georgia, Arbitrażowe Aktualności – Biuletyn Arbitrażowy, Sąd Arbitrażowy przy Krajowej Izbie Gospodarczej w…
…in connection with an arbitration commenced in 2009 in the London Court of International Arbitration (“LCIA”) by a Cypriot company “Edimax” against the Russian businessman Shalva Chigirinsky. Edimax is claiming…
…strongly develop in coming years. In 2008, the Arbitration Committee of the International Bar Association has formed a Task Force on Counsel Ethics in International Arbitration for the purpose of…
It is well known that the New York Convention is widely recognized as a foundational instrument of international arbitration. In addition to this Convention, there are also international bilateral agreements…
…monetary aspect of an NGO’s presence in a foreign country – would the investment (if found as one under the relevant treaty and/or ICSID rules) be large enough to arbitrate?…
…to ratify has the opposite reputational effect. The availability of binding ICSID arbitration would increase investor confidence in Canada, making it an even more attractive location for foreign investment by…
…due to the FAA, institutional arbitration rules and other mechanisms that prevent much of New York law playing a large role in the international arbitration itself….still, would it send a…
…by depriving them of their agricultural landholdings and other property, had breached various provisions of the Netherlands-Zimbabwe bilateral investment treaty (BIT). In April 2009 an ICSID tribunal issued an award…
…to the soccer club Atlético de Madrid SAD (Atlético). Based on the then applicable FIFA Regulations for the Status and Transfer of Players (FIFA Rules), Benfica claimed in 2001 a…
Many leading jurisdictions in international arbitration have adopted all or part of the UN Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration (“Model Law”). The question that remains is: Why Hasn’t the…
…pro-arbitration approach on almost all aspects of the Model Law, and arbitration generally, to come before them. They have been deferential to arbitration agreements – particularly international commercial arbitration agreements…
…March 13 to April 12, 1930 and was attended by representatives of forty-seven States. In the view of the United States Delegate to the Conference, Green H. Hackworth, then Solicitor…
The ongoing saga regarding Chevron’s legal travails in Ecuador took an interesting twist this week. As I reported earlier, Chevron has secured key outtakes of the movie Crude that appeared…
This year, the State of Florida, with significant help from the many international practitioners working in Florida, proposed and passed a bill changing the Florida Arbitration Act to substantially match…
…July 2003 he became the legal owner of 66.96% of the shares in Telsim shortly before the Turkish conduct at issue. He claimed an astronomical US$ 19 billion in damages….
…one another? Could an arbitrator be subject to cross-examination? Should this issue be dealt with by institutional arbitration rules? It seems there is at least one point of agreement: the…
…so the arbitration was not necessarily a test-case for more middle-of-the-road measures). I’m planning to make further inquiries in order to understand what legal advice Uruguay received – and from…
The recent publication of the LCIA India Arbitration Rules (the ‘Rules’) has sparked a fair amount of discussion and interest, not in small measure owing to the fact that this…
Last month a number of noteworthy arbitration-related developments took place in Moscow. Firstly, the international conference “Commercial Arbitration in Russia, Sweden and the UK: New Business Opportunities”, was held on…
I recently spoke at a conference co-sponsored by the Milan Chamber of Arbitration and the ICC on the occasion of the publication of the new Italian arbitration treatise entitled Commentario…
…foreshadows the impassioned debate surrounding the lex mercatoria as a supranational legal set of commercial principles applicable to international arbitration. Sceptics would say the content of such principles is as…
…including a new search engine. Seven months on, it gives me really great pleasure to announce that earlier this week (Monday 12th July) we introduced a brand NEW ‘Practice Tools’…
