We are excited to announce that ArbitralWomen is partnering with Arbitrator Intelligence (AI) on a joint AW-AI AIQ Women Arbitrators Campaign. The campaign will launch on Friday, 8 March 2019 – International Women’s Day 2019!...
8 March, 2019 Read more
Dana MacGrath on the New Generation of International Arbitrators We spoke with Dana MacGrath, of counsel to Sidley Austin’s International Arbitration and Commercial Litigation and Disputes practices, about changes in the dispute-resolution landscape and developing...
11 December, 2018 Read more
In a world where women outnumber men and where women are active in all business and legal fields, women remain under-represented in key positions in all fields. The under-representation is not a matter of lack...
6 December, 2018 Read more
ArbitralWomen (AW) and the Equal Representation in Arbitration Pledge (ERA Pledge) efforts have been having important effects on promoting women practitioners in dispute resolution. Arbitral institutions are publishing both general statistics about gender and other diversity criteria...
4 December, 2018 Read more
On 10 October 2018, Burford Capital launched The Equity Project. As described in Burford’s press release, The Equity Project is “a groundbreaking initiative designed to help close the gender gap in law by providing an...
11 October, 2018 Read more
The international construction legal community is notably diverse, with men and women from many jurisdictions and cultures practising construction law at a senior level. The same is true for engineers. Yet this diversity does not...
25 August, 2018 Read more
ArbitralWomen is pleased to announce the results of the elections of its incoming Board of Directors for the 2018-2020 Term, which includes nine new members. The incoming Board of Directors selected Dana MacGrath, counsel in...
31 July, 2018 Read more
Unrivalled change! A huge progress achieved on the ICC International Court of Arbitration. For the Court’s 2018-2021 term, the ICC World Council nominated on 21 June 2018 Court members with full gender parity and unparalleled...
25 June, 2018 Read more
New York, April 23, 2018 – The New York City Bar Association’s Arbitration Committee has released a report describing arbitrator appointment procedures of various arbitral institutions in commercial arbitrations. The Report “Arbitrator Appointment Procedures of...
24 April, 2018 Read more
Susanna Hoe and Derek Roebuck Finally, a book on the history of women in Malta has been written, and it is much more than a compendium of famous names. Theresa Vella Treasures of Malta ‘The...
16 March, 2018 Read more
Mirèze Philippe (above left), co-founder of ArbitralWomen with Louise Barrington, and Special Counsel at the Secretariat of the International Court of Arbitration, International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), Paris, France, has been named together with Lucy Greenwood (above right),...
19 February, 2018 Read more
The Board of Directors of ArbitralWomen, the international non-governmental organisation for the promotion of women in dispute resolution, met on 1 December 2017 in the wake of former President Rashda Rana’s resignation. Effective immediately, the...
6 December, 2017 Read more
ArbitralWomen launched an initiative in November 2015 aimed at offering corporate membership to be provided to all female lawyers in the dispute resolution groups. Initially offered only to law firms listed in the Global Arbitration...
14 November, 2017 Read more
Two years ago, GQUAL started as a global campaign for gender parity in international tribunals and monitoring bodies. The campaign was crafted as a response to the critical under-representation of women within these entities. GQUAL was launched on 17...
5 November, 2017 Read more
ArbitralWomen is delighted to count many members among the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC ). The International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) announced on 7...
31 July, 2017 Read more