In January 2009, Professor Roger Alford published the first post on the Kluwer Arbitration Blog (the Blog), launching what is now considered an indispensable tool for arbitration practitioners and academics…

…International Law, which declares the New York Convention applicable without any reciprocity reservation. Consequently, the correct conclusion would have been that Switzerland had bound itself to apply the New York…

…importance of voluntary compliance. It then underlines that the applicable rules related to the removal or challenge of arbitrators, which are separate and different for each institution, continue to apply….

rules,3)See for example, the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules, the Code of Sports-related Arbitration, the 2016 SIAC Rules, the 2017 ICC Rules and the 2018 HKIAC Rules. a party-appointed expert will not…

arbitration agreement’s implied proper law. Applying the Choice-of-Law Framework, the SGCA reasoned that: The Express Choice-of-Law Analysis did not apply as the parties had not expressly chosen the arbitration agreement’s…

legal analysis of the Spanish regulatory framework, but the tribunal nonetheless found that the investor was kept informed about the legal developments by its law firm, it being ‘reasonable for…

the purpose of ensuring legal and judicial certainty for investors and companies. OHADA’s uniform rules are created through so-called Uniform Acts, which pertain to various domains of commercial law. To…

…international sports arbitration. In Riza, five different applicants challenged the independence of the Turkish Football Federation’s (“TFF“) Arbitration Committee (“AC”). Given the subjective – same Respondent – and objective –…