…introduced the topic of ethics in arbitration. She elucidated the need for this principle in order for the field of international arbitration to flourish at all, since ethics is the…
The increased globalization of business and the rising popularity of arbitration as a standard method of alternative dispute resolution (“ADR“) has fostered an intersection of arbitration and insolvency. Arbitration is…
…of investment treaty arbitration and WTO dispute settlement is extremely useful for achieving this objective. To see our full series of posts on Teaching International Investment Arbitration, click here….
…international arbitration include tools used to identify relevant documents, generate and edit text, as well as translation, interpretation and transcription tools. Future applications of AI in arbitration are virtually limitless…
…have attempted to settle the dispute amicably through consultation and – for arbitration – provided that both parties have consented to arbitration and the arbitration rules (Art. 27). The principle…
Can an arbitration agreement be binding on a party that did not sign it? Generally, an arbitration agreement only binds its signatories. This is a transnational principle, also anchored in…
…depending on whether the arbitration is seated in Vietnam or outside of Vietnam. If the arbitration is seated in Vietnam, the Vietnamese Law on Commercial Arbitration (the “LCA”) applies to…
…and can only be initiated if parties have agreed to do so. As most arbitration laws, the Brazilian Arbitration Act (“BAA”) provides for the enforceability of an arbitration agreement if…
…starting point under Vietnamese law is that if there is an arbitration agreement between the parties, such arbitration agreement is “absolutely independent” from the underlying contract (Art. 19 of the…
…In Kyrgyzstan, there are currently four registered institutional arbitration courts: the ICA CCI KR (established in 2002); the Jalal-Abad Regional Arbitration Court (2013); the Central Asian Arbitration Court (2015); and…
…(Vienna Moot), hugely inspired more than a generation of young arbitration lawyers and we cannot thank him enough for his contributions to the arbitration community. At Wolters Kluwer, the Vienna…
…the HAA, highlighted that confidentiality and transparency are one of the key issues in which commercial arbitration and investment arbitration take a diametrically opposed approach. While in investment arbitration the…
…for Arbitration Agreements Art. 7 of the 2006 Model Law contains more liberal form requirements than the 1985 Model Law and the German arbitration law (sec. 1031 ZPO). The White…
…Arbitration Ordinance in 2018 and the Singapore International Arbitration Act in 2019. Such a shift would contribute to fostering the future of the Korean arbitration landscape as one of the…
…cannot lead to the annulment of an award in which a tribunal has retained its jurisdiction, even though the mediation process has not been implemented prior to the arbitration procedure….
…Bishkek; Member, ICC International Court of Arbitration), Firuza Bobokulova of Uzbekistan (Partner, My Lawyer Law Firm, Tashkent; Member, ICC International Court of Arbitration), and Aigoul Kenjebayeva of Kazakhstan (Partner, Dentons…
…(ICSID Case No. ARB/20/52; Request for Arbitration filed on December 7, 2020) and Westmoreland Coal Company v. Canada, ICSID Case No. UNCT/23/2, Request for Arbitration filed on October 14, 2022)….
…The case arose from a dispute over a joint real estate venture between Vitaly Smagin and Ashot Yegiazaryan that resulted in a London-seated arbitration and a USD 84 million award…
On an exceptionally sunny day in Vancouver, Canada, Vancouver International Arbitration Centre (VanIAC) and International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA) hosted a joint conference entitled “Energy Infrastructure Disputes and Arbitration:…
…conference organized by the Vancouver International Arbitration Centre (“VanIAC”) and the International Council for Commercial Arbitration (“ICCA”), which will be discussed in a separate blog post tomorrow. On the eve…
…of new legislation, “Domestic Arbitration Act 2023”, to bring Pakistan at par with developed pro-arbitration and enforcement jurisdictions; and (b) establishment of international commercial courts and/or a state-of-the-art international arbitration…
…comparing arbitration and mediation, Professor Martin Lau remarked that, “if arbitration is the favourite child of ADR, then mediation is its unloved and neglected stepchild” – driving home the point…
…questions of design, implementation, and impact of empirical research in international arbitration focusing on two surveys as “case studies”: the 2021 Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) International Arbitration Survey…
Nigeria’s 35-year-old Arbitration and Conciliation Act 1988 (the “Old Act”) was finally repealed and replaced by the Arbitration and Mediation Act 2023 (the “New Act”) following presidential assent on 26…
