International arbitration

In a case my business had a few years ago, the parties' contract specified expedited procedures under the AAA's Commercial Arbitration Rules. Immediately after the request for arbitration had been…

Co-authored by Georg von Segesser, Benjamin Moss and Aileen Truttmann, Schellenberg Wittmer An arbitral tribunal's relationship to state courts remains a complex and often contested topic. A…

By Manuela Caccialanza and Alessandro Villani, Linklaters LLP Another chapter of the never-ending West Tankers saga has recently concluded, seemingly scoring a success as to protection of a party’s…

By Philipp Groz and James Menz, Schellenberg Wittmer In March 2014, the Geneva-based World Intellectual Property Organization's (WIPO) Arbitration and Mediation Center (the "Center") presented the…

By Sapna Jhangiani and Khaled Moyeed, Clyde & Co LLP "To the question: What are the professional rules applicable to an Indian lawyer in a Hong Kong arbitration between a Bahraini claimant and a…

By Michael Polkinghorne & Charles B. Rosenberg, White & Case LLP The role of the tribunal secretary in international arbitration has been called an “enormously grey area” that has been subject to…

2013 saw the establishment of Serbia’s first arbitration institution which is not affiliated to the State – Belgrade Arbitration Center (BAC), created under the auspices of the Serbian Arbitration…

During past months, the Belgian arbitration community has been very active in promoting its country and Brussels in particular, as a major international arbitration centre. 2013 and 2014 are indeed…

On this blog, I have previously (here and here) questioned existing practices for how arbitrators are selected and argued that a new approach is both necessary and long overdue. To briefly recap…