As a fitting tribute to the vision of the first dedicated arbitration education institution, the School of International Arbitration (SIA) marked its 30th anniversary with a two day conference…
The question of what constitutes an “arbitration” is unlikely to be one that arbitral practitioners have cause to ponder on a daily basis. In fact, such a question might appear at first to be purely…
This article is published as a result of the cooperation agreement between Kluwer Arbitration Blog and ArbitralWomen. The views expressed in this article are those of the author alone and should…
By Jawad Ahmad and Paul Tan , Rajah & Tann's LLP
Litigation tends to attract the assertive type of lawyer. This may in part be due to hearings taking place in open court, which sometimes encourages…
Praying you'll get a good tribunal?Critical negotiation moments punctuate the entire timeline of an international arbitration, from before it starts to even after it is over. And when these moments…
In the wake of hotly contested domestic and international developments, speakers at the Annual ITA-ASIL Conference in Washington, DC on April 9 gave varied and sometimes conflicting perspectives on…
Arbitration proceedings sometimes spawn a host of parallel court proceedings. It is not unheard for parties to seek to instrumentalise courts, sometimes with the complicity of the courts themselves,…
Hong Kong is one of the major hubs for international arbitration in Asia. Its position was strengthened when, in 2012, India added Hong Kong to the list of so-called “gazetted” states: only arbitral…
[Written with the assistance of Nina Tandon and Andrew Behrman of Hogan Lovells US LLP]
A recent ruling from a U.S. federal district court has highlighted an emerging doctrine in United States courts…
