As a result of a reform of Mexico's Constitution, on 25 February 2017 a Presidential Decree was enacted, whereby the Congress received the mandate to pass a new law on Alternative Dispute Resolution…
It has been ten years since Bolivia denounced the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes Convention ("ICSID Convention"), becoming the first country to withdraw from the ICSID…
According to a recent announcement, the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) International Court of Arbitration is set to open a representative office in the Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), a free…
On 1 March 2017 the Austrian Supreme Court (Oberster Gerichtshof) ruled on whether potential claims under the Austrian Commercial Agents Act (Handelsvertretergesetz) can be brought before an Austrian…
As arbitration gains prominence, legislative regimes governing domestic arbitration are fast liberalizing globally, and in some instances, like in South Korea, liberalizing faster than the regime…
After a few declarations of intention to terminate BITs (see my previous post), Poland put words into actions. On 18 July 2017, the Polish Government submitted to the Sejm (the lower house of Polish…
Introduction
There are over 250 million people who speak Portuguese, being commonly identified as the sixth most spoken language in the world.
It is an official dialect in Angola, Brazil, Cabo-Verde…
The President of the Republic of Kazakhstan (President) signed the constitutional law "On the Astana International Financial Centre" (Law) on 7 December 2015, which provides a legal framework for the…
July saw a collection of thought-provoking and passionate posts from our writers, including the particular challenges of conducting research on mediation, insights from the Global Pound Conference in…
Since 1996, commercial arbitration in Lithuania has been regulated by the Law on Commercial Arbitration which was based on the provisions of the 1985 UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial…
