This post reports on the topics discussed during the panels held on the second day of ICCA Madrid 2026, the 27th ICCA Congress held from 12 to 15 April and addressing the theme International…
International arbitration has absorbed new technology before — without serious consequences for award enforceability. Generative AI raises questions that earlier tools did not, and the difference…
Historically rooted in human judgment, flexibility, and due process, international arbitration is now being reshaped by a technological shift. The question is not whether artificial intelligence (“AI…
A working group of the Swiss Arbitration Association (“ASA") User Council (composed of experienced in-house counsel) has recently released a Whitepaper on Document Production entitled “Taming the…
2025 was marked by the continued integration and scrutiny of technology in arbitration. As artificial intelligence (“AI”) and other digital tools moved from novelty to normalised use, the arbitration…
This story begins with efficiency. An arbitral tribunal, overwhelmed by thousands of pages of submissions and expert reports, turns to an AI system to generate insights and streamline its…
On 27 November 2025, Queen Mary University of London hosted the 11th Annual EFILA lecture, sponsored by Control Risks. The lecture was delivered by Professor Maxi Scherer, who is “an Artificial…
When I first began teaching international economic law subjects to law students, the use of the Internet was just beginning to gain global traction. Today, some decades later, both the legal and…
As global commerce rapidly embraces automation via frontier technologies such as blockchain and artificial intelligence (“AI”), international arbitration must evolve accordingly. Although…
