Introduction
On 12 July 2016, a five-member arbitral tribunal (the Tribunal) constituted under Annex VII of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) issued its long-awaited award…
Introduction
On 23 May 2016, CIETAC’s Hong Kong Arbitration Center (CIETAC HKAC) issued for public consultation draft Guidelines for third party funding (the draft Guidelines).
Third party funding …
The 1958 United Nations Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards ("The New York Convention") is the engine that makes international arbitration an effective mechanism…
“When Justice Delayed Would be Justice Denied: Emergency Arbitrators and Interim Measures in International Arbitration” was the subject of the 28th Annual Workshop of the Institute for Transnational…
The development of international arbitration in recent years has led to a significant multiplication of arbitration institutions around the world. In fact, every major city related to trade or…
The arbitration of patent disputes is on the rise. This is not only because patent litigation has been subject to criticism on multiple grounds, but also because arbitration offers several distinct…
An extension of arbitration agreements to non-signatories has been a much discussed topic, also on this blog. Here is an insight from Croatian courts:
In a judgment issued on 2 September 2014 (VSRH…
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“Essentially what is at stake at this climate conference is peace”.
Those were the words uttered by French President François Hollande to signify the importance of COP21 - the 21st…
Latvian courts annually enforce approximately 1000 arbitral awards. Just a few years ago this number was even higher - reaching 7000 requests in 2004 (statistics of the Court Information System…
