During past months, the Belgian arbitration community has been very active in promoting its country and Brussels in particular, as a major international arbitration centre.
2013 and 2014 are indeed…
Former U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld famously introduced into the American lexicon the oxymoronic concept of the “known unknown”—“that is to say we know there are some things we do not know…
In an encouraging ruling of earlier this year (see Case No. 249 of 2013 – Middle East Foundations LLC v. Meydan Group LLC (formerly Meydan LLC), Commercial Appeal, ruling of the Dubai Court of Appeal…
On 16 April 2014, the Parliament of the European Union has published legislative resolution No P7_TA-PROV (2014) 0419 on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council…
By Karl Pörnbacher and Lars Pütz, Hogan Lovells LLP
An arbitral tribunal's preliminary ruling on its jurisdiction can be challenged by application for state court decision according to Sec. 1040 (3)…
I. The Court of Appeal of Lisbon recently granted recognition of an arbitral award made in Paris, under the Rules of Arbitration of the ICC, holding that the Portuguese law applicable to the Agency…
Authors: Geoff Hansen, Partner and Jennifer Galatas, Senior Associate
1. Introduction – APRAG and Beyond
On 27 to 28 March 2014, international dispute experts converged on Melbourne, Australia…
Though of paramount importance in jurisprudence, no contract is perfect. Sometimes, at the time the parties negotiated and drafted the contract, they inadvertently failed to anticipate a particular…
In the wake of hotly contested domestic and international developments, speakers at the Annual ITA-ASIL Conference in Washington, DC on April 9 gave varied and sometimes conflicting perspectives on…
As part of the 26th Annual ITA Workshop taking place in Dallas on June 18-20 2014, we have prepared a survey on the experiences of arbitration practitioners with enforceability of arbitral awards in…
