In recent years, criticism that international arbitration rules lean too heavily on common law traditions—with similar legal costs as a result—has culminated in the creation of multiple new sets of…
International arbitration has been regarded as a flexible and efficient dispute resolution mechanism. While this may hold true for most phases of the arbitration, document production (i.e., the phase…
Introduction
Document production has become a standard phase in international arbitration, but the documents sought and produced often turn out to be voluminous. As such, document production is…
The Singapore International Arbitration Centre (“SIAC”) hosted its Congress on 2 September 2020. For the first time, the Congress was held virtually. The Chairman of the Board of Directors of SIAC,…
How severely are international construction projects affected by global COVID-19 pandemic? What does the COVID-19 pandemic mean for international construction disputes? As with so many other…
As in most jurisdictions, Germany based arbitral tribunals and German state courts assessing challenges to arbitral awards are often confronted with questions regarding the conflict between the…
Introduction
The Prague Rules have been widely discussed over the past few months, among others, on this blog. Yet, to the knowledge of the authors, none of those discussions has specifically…
The main concerns of parties when considering arbitration are the costs and length of arbitration proceedings (see, e.g., Queen Mary University of London 2018 International Arbitration Survey). The…
The Danish Institute of Arbitration (DIA) and ICC Denmark hosted Copenhagen Arbitration Day earlier this year. Discussion took place on a wide range of topics such as the criticism of arbitration…
