This post is the conclusion of a two-part publication regarding the situation of investors in Ecuador vis-á-vis the country’s efforts to elude the substantive and procedural protections afforded by…
As a result of a reform of Mexico's Constitution, on 25 February 2017 a Presidential Decree was enacted, whereby the Congress received the mandate to pass a new law on Alternative Dispute Resolution…
It has been ten years since Bolivia denounced the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes Convention ("ICSID Convention"), becoming the first country to withdraw from the ICSID…
As reported in the excellent piece by Alejandro López Ortiz and Gustavo Fernandes in “A Year of Legal Developments for International Arbitration in Latin America”, Bolivia may have taken a step back…
Article 19 of the Incentives for Public-Private Partnerships and Foreign Investment Act ("PPP Act") recognizes local and international arbitration as one of the dispute resolution methods that has…
In Scherk v. Alberto-Culver Co, the US Supreme Court stated that “[a] contractual provision specifying in advance the forum in which disputes shall be litigated and the law to be applied is an almost…
The Second Circuit's decision on Chevron Corporation v. Steven Donziger et. al., one more chapter of the "Chevron Saga" (discussed by the author here), arose out of a federal action commenced by…
In May 2016, DRBF gathered in Santiago, Chile, for its annual international conference. The location is testimony to the rising demand and dispute boards practice in the region. Having served for…
“And the winner is Buenos Aires” said Alice Fremuth-Wolf, deputy Secretary General of the Vienna International Arbitral Centre and presiding arbitrator of the final round, in the afternoon of 24…
