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The only way to measure change is to collate and publish statistics year after year. In spite of the extremely slow progress that the author has criticised when discussing on various occasions the evolution of female representation in the last thirty years, progress has been increasingly visible in recent years…

On Dec. 23, 2015, a well-planned, perfectly synchronized and brilliantly executed cyber-attack caused a six-hour blackout for hundreds of thousands of customers in and around Ukraine's capital city of Kiev. While there have been no reported cases of cyber-terrorism causing power outages in the U.S., the attack methodology, tactics, techniques…

Two important services are currently missing in the dispute resolution processes and which are desperatly needed: first, dispute resolution organisation need to offer a platform to their users to conduct their procedures in an online secure environment; second, dispute resolution stakeholders need to address the resolution of consumer disputes.

This article analyzes the relationship between business and human rights. It declares sources and contents of the obligation of respecting human rights imposed on business enterprises by initiatives of international organizations, mainly, the framework drafted by the special representative of UN secretary general on the issue of human rights and…

In June of 2016, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (the ‘Ninth Circuit’) reversed and remanded (1) a decision of the US District Court for the Central District of California (the ‘District Court’), holding that under the Federal Arbitration Act (the ‘FAA’), a party unable to…

In YAR, ed. 25, 19-27

The 2017 GAR Awards shortlist for Best Innovation marked a pivotal moment for international arbitration by spotlighting initiatives that advance transparency and diversity. In this context, the Equal Representation in Arbitration Pledge emerged as a pioneering global effort aimed at addressing the longstanding under-representation of women in the field, with…