As a journalist, I miss out on all the fun of nominating arbitrators.
And I also refrain from counseling others as to whom they should nominate to arbitral tribunals.
But, today I’d like to make an…
The four most recent ICSID disqualification decisions (Universal Compression v. Venezuela, OPIC Karimum v. Venezuela, Tidewater v. Venezuela and Urbaser v. Argentina) have unanimously rejected…
The seventh round of TPP negotiations will take place in Vietnam the week of June 20 but caution on the part of U.S. negotiators makes it highly unlikely that after fifteen months of ongoing…
There was no shortage of coverage of the recent English Supreme Court case Jivraj v Hashwani, the case concerning whether an arbitration clause was contrary to anti-discrimination legislation…
I am posting this CIArb's press release for the benefit of our readers:
The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) has launched a major survey into the costs of international arbitration. The ‘…
The Islamic Republic of Pakistan is not foreign to defending investment claims. In order to restore investors’ confidence in its country, the Pakistani government has enacted on April 28, 2011 a law…
[Editor's Note: The following blog is re-published free of editorial errors in the original publication.]
In the current zeitgeist focusing on the need for efficiency and speed in arbitration, we are…
I write this post on a train on the way home from a seminar held by the Milan Chamber of Arbitration (CAM) to introduce a new rule and guidelines that could be seen as a necessary next step in the…
José Augusto Fontoura Costa of the São Paulo Law Faculty has just published a fascinating paper analyzing the process by which WTO panelists and ICSID arbitrators are nominated. What is most…
Costa Rica has a new Arbitration Law, which is based on the 2006 version of the UNCITRAL Model Law. The relative speed with which the new Arbitration Law was adopted came as a surprise to many.…
