The Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce began the new year by announcing two interesting and even bold innovations.
The ICC Court will now, according to the ICC's own press…
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On 12 November 2015, the…
As we settle in to enjoy the delights of the season and mark the end of another calendar year, we might ponder: What if Charles Dickins’ Ghost of Christmas Present went back to visit the…
Amir Matar
Associate, Sarie El Din & Partners Legal Advisors & Founding member of the Arab Legal Forum
On 12 November, fifteen of the foremost arbitration specialists in the world met in Cairo to…
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…
As Mariel Dimsey has observed, a key challenge posed by investment treaties is that - at the point of ratification - they expose States to arbitrations of 'as-yet-unknown scope and against as-yet…
The Swiss Arbitration Association ("ASA") has called recently for the creation of a transnational body, the Global Arbitration Ethics Council, to whom matters of alleged unethical conduct would be…
The New York Times has just published a three-part series of investigative articles about arbitration practice in the United States, casting it as machine of repeat-players used by large companies to…
The results of the 2015 Queen Mary and White & Case International Arbitration Survey were launched on 6 October 2015. Titled “Improvements and Innovations in International Arbitration”, the survey…
