b-Arbitra is the Belgian Review of Arbitration, issued biannually, with publication of judgments, notes and commentaries on arbitration related topics.In edition 2025/2, readers will find a selection…
On 14 January 2026, the French Senate adopted a Bill (Proposition de loi relative à la confidentialité des consultations des juristes d’entreprise) introducing a statutory regime of confidentiality…
After more than two decades under Law No. 1879/2002, Paraguay has enacted Law No. 7561/2025 to reform its arbitration regime. The updated framework remains closely aligned with the United Nations…
Investment treaties are necessarily incomplete. Not every contingency can be anticipated, and silence is an inherent feature rather than a defect. Some omissions are more relevant than others. There…
Bulgaria’s arbitration law underwent a significant transformation on 1 August 2025. The amendments – accompanied by a change of name from the International Commercial Arbitration Act to the broader…
Georgia is positioning itself as an ADR-friendly jurisdiction. It is a Model Law country and has taken consistent steps to modernize its alternative dispute resolution (ADR) framework. In 2019,…
In investor-State dispute settlement ("ISDS"), there have been awards in which compensation has reached billions, such as in the Tethyan v. Pakistan, Occidental v. Ecuador, and Yukos v. Russia cases…
Historically rooted in human judgment, flexibility, and due process, international arbitration is now being reshaped by a technological shift. The question is not whether artificial intelligence (“AI…
The newly released 2025 edition of Prof. Selma Lemes’s influential report on arbitration in Brazil (the "Report") is here, and it paints a detailed picture of the development of arbitration in the…
On 17 October 2025, the Tribunal in Riverside Coffee v. Nicaragua delivered its Award in a dispute where an avocado farm investment clashed with Nicaragua’s national security interests during a time…
