The draft bill for the revision of the 12th Chapter of the Swiss Private International Law ("PILA") was recently approved by the Swiss legislator (as analyzed previously on this blog). Besides…
In a recent decision, New York State’s highest court (the New York Court of Appeals) rejected an argument that a tribunal exceeded its authority, as to warrant vacatur, when it reconsidered and…
The arbitration laws of many established arbitral jurisdictions, for instance, the English Arbitration Act 1996, German Code of Civil Procedure, the Swedish Arbitration Act 2019 (see post on the…
We are happy to inform you that the latest issue of the journal is now available and includes the following contributions:
Mees Brenninkmeijer & Fabien Gélinas, Execution Immunities and…
On 22 September 2020, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit joined the Second and Fifth Circuits in narrowly interpreting the statutory language “foreign or international tribunal”…
Brazil’s new Franchising Law (Law No. 13.966/19) was published on December 27th, 2019 and became effective as of March 27th, 2020. One of the innovations (more of a confirmation) set forth by the new…
In early September 2020, the United Kingdom (‘UK’) Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Brandon Lewis, conceded in no uncertain terms that the UK Internal Market Bill would violate public…
Of the six States that have ratified the United Nations Convention on International Settlement Agreements Resulting from Mediation (“Convention”) only Singapore seems to have made any requisite…
Many see the Pan-African Investment Code (PAIC), a model instrument adopted by the African Union (AU) in 2015, as the first step toward the ‘africanization’ of international investment law. While…
Aron Broches, the chief architect of the ICSID Convention, said in 1964 that the role of conciliation in the Convention's framework may prove to be more important than arbitration. There is little…
