As part of London Arbitration Week 2025 (“LAW”), Queen Mary University of London (“QMUL”), in partnership with OGEMID and the CIArb London Branch, hosted an event dedicated to International…
As 2025 draws to a close, it invites reflection not only on the contributions published on the Kluwer Arbitration Blog over the past year, but more importantly on what the year’s thematic patterns…
In August 2024, resolving a district split, the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit (“DC Circuit”) set a significant precedent in NextEra Energy Global Holdings BV v. Kingdom of Spain, ruling that…
With its launch underway, the Patent Mediation and Arbitration Centre (“PMAC”) is set to become the new hub for resolving patent disputes outside of court. The PMAC was established under the same…
In a recent decision, the European Commission ("EC") concluded that any payment by Spain on the basis of the arbitration award rendered in 2018 and established under the auspices of the International…
The Achmea judgment of the Court of Justice of the EU (“CJEU”) declaring intra-EU investment arbitration contrary to EU law has been hotly debated (see previous KAB posts here), but ever since, the…
In a recent decision (the "Decision"), the Amsterdam Court of Appeal (Gerechtshof Amsterdam) (the "Court") ordered the claimant in an UNCITRAL arbitration brought against Poland under an intra-EU…
In the United States, 2024 brought a collection of refinements in the country’s arbitration jurisprudence, with courts issuing decisions that reinforced federal pro-arbitration policies and clarified…
On 13 September 2024, the German Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht, “BVG” or “the Court”) published two judgments dated 23 July 2024 (available here and here, both in German),…
The third updated edition of the “Report on compliance with investment treaty awards by States” (the “2024 Report”) was released in November 2024. The Report was conducted in the summer of 2024 by…
