On 7 July 2016, the UNCITRAL Commission adopted a revised and updated version of the UNCITRAL Notes on Organizing Arbitral Proceedings. The 2016 Notes replace a 1996 edition, and aim to flag…
by Esmé Shirlow (Assistant Editor for Australia & New Zealand)
Gabriele Ruscalla has recently observed that "transparency has become a fundamental principle in international adjudication". The…
by Sonja Heppner, Trinity College Dublin, School of Law
The text of the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership (‘TPP’) as agreed upon between the United States and Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile,…
On 17 March 2015, the UN Convention on Transparency in Treaty-Based Investor-State Arbitration was opened for signature. So far, nine countries have signed the treaty (among them, Canada, France,…
Transparency is one of the hot topics in international law. With governance functions increasingly shifting from the domestic to the international level, transparency is demanded, as Andrea Bianchi…
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…
It has been over two years since the DC Circuit Court of Appeals (“Circuit Court”) vacated an award in a bilateral investment treaty arbitration (BG Group PLC v. Republic of Argentina (UNCITRAL))…
On 11 July 2013, the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law ("UNCITRAL") adopted new Rules on Transparency in Treaty-based Investor-State Arbitration (the "Transparency Rules"), which…
Readers of this blog may be interested to know of an opportunity to participate in the creation of a forthcoming special issue of Transnational Dispute Management (TDM), entitled "Reform of Investor…
