The arbitration landscape in the Gulf Cooperation Council (“GCC”) and wider Middle East and North Africa (“MENA”) region has undergone a remarkable transformation in recent years. Among the changes…
As global commerce rapidly embraces automation via frontier technologies such as blockchain and artificial intelligence (“AI”), international arbitration must evolve accordingly. Although…
In recent times, the UAE has made positive strides on the global arbitration charts. According to the ICC Dispute Resolution Statistics 2024, the UAE advanced from eighth to fifth place globally as a…
On 3 December 2025, the Old Library of the Guildhall in London opened its doors to the flagship conference of the inaugural London Arbitration Week (“LAW”). Practitioners, academics, government…
We are delighted to present the second issue of the 10th volume of the European Investment Law and Arbitration Review (EILA Rev).The developments in the cross-sections of European law, international…
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…
The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (“CIArb”) published its Guideline on Third-Party Funding (“Guideline”) in September 2025, setting out a framework for the use and disclosure of funding in…
As cross-border contracts and treaties multiply, international dispute resolution faces a critical but often overlooked risk: linguistic ambiguity and conceptual misalignment. International disputes…
Ad hoc arbitration, long excluded from China’s framework, was barred by the 1995 Arbitration Law of the People’s Republic of China (“PRC Arbitration Law”) requiring designation of an arbitration…
