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  • Author: Mirèze Philippe   |  Publish Date: 02 June 2016

    The launch of the Equal Representation in Arbitration (ERA) Pledge on 18 May 2016 in London marks a historic moment in international arbitration. The Pledge is a call to the international dispute resolution community to commit to increase the number of female arbitrators on an equal opportunity basis. All players…

  • Author: Louise Woods   |  Publish Date: 23 March 2016
    On 12 November 2015, in the context of its negotiations for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and in a bid to address growing criticism of investment treaty arbitration, the European Commission made a formal proposal for a reformed approach to investment protection and an apparently more transparent system…
  • Author: Ayça Aydin   |  Publish Date: 04 March 2016
    A new arbitration institution has opened its doors and has already started to register its cases in Istanbul. The Istanbul Arbitration Centre (ISTAC) has become operational in the third quarter of 2015, offering to its users a set of arbitration and mediation rules, along with emergency arbitrator and Fast Track…
  • Author: Louise Barrington   |  Publish Date: 27 November 2015
    A few weeks ago, a small team of educators gathered in Phnom Penh for the second Vis East Moot Foundation Capacity Building Programme (VEMF-CBP) for Cambodian law students. What made this programme different from other occasional, one-off forays into Cambodia by dozens of NGO’s and law firms is that this…
  • Author: Mirèze Philippe   |  Publish Date: 16 September 2015

    Hypochondria is defined as an excessive preoccupation with one’s health, usually focusing on some particular symptom. Could excessive preoccupation about the place of arbitration in online dispute resolution be assimilated to hypochondria? Are discussions that we hear from time to time and recently during the electronic conference on Technology in…

  • Author: Lara Pair   |  Publish Date: 31 August 2015
    There are a number of questions that influence how arbitration treats cases in which an award is challenged successfully. A court overturns an award declining jurisdiction, but what’s next? The authors argues that the easy and most practical answer would be for the arbitrator to resume the case and render…
  • Author: Helena Chen   |  Publish Date: 25 August 2015
    To enforce a Taiwan’s award or civil judgment in the mainland China, a party has to refer to PRC’s regulations, which were released by the Supreme People’s Court (“SPC”) and have recently been amended. The new SPC’s “Provisions on Recognition and Enforcement of Taiwan Courts’ Civil Judgments” and “Provisions on…
  • Author: Cherine Foti   |  Publish Date: 01 July 2015

    Arbitration in the Arab World is a hot topic these days. Over the past few decades the Arab World has become a region at the forefront of international arbitration expansion. With increasing numbers of commercial actors coming out of the Arab World and with regional arbitration centers being established in…

  • Author: Lara Elborno   |  Publish Date: 21 May 2015

    The article explores some of the issues that were the focus of a recent roundtable on women in arbitration organized on 5 May 2015 by the Université de Versailles and its Master Arbitrage et Commerce International in cooperation with the ICC and ArbitralWomen. Taking place at the ICC, more than…

  • Author: Ileana Smeureanu   |  Publish Date: 27 April 2015
    This year, Wendy Miles delivered the keynote speech at the YAF/YAPP Annual Conference on the second day of the Vis Moot. Attuned to the audience, the speech began with a note of encouragement and ended on a counterpoint of responsibility: though the future belongs to the young arbitrators, they are…
  • Author: Barbara Rumora-Scheltema   |  Publish Date: 25 February 2015
    The New Act entered into force on 1 January 2015 in relation to arbitrations commenced on or after 1 January 2015. The New Act is an amendment to the former Dutch Arbitration Act, which dates back to 1986, many aspects of which remain unchanged in the New Act. Although the…
  • Author: Cristina Elena Candea   |  Publish Date: 01 December 2014
    In August 2014, the Court of Arbitration attached to the Romanian Chamber of Commerce and Industry amended its arbitration rules and returned to the long-standing principle of party autonomy in the constitution of tribunals. Prior to that, for a period of roughly two years, the Court promoted an appointment mechanism…
  • Author: Lorraine Brennan   |  Publish Date: 15 October 2014
    The author recalls that the international arbitration community sat up and took notice when a recent decision issued by Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein from the Southern District of New York in the Pemex case ordered that an arbitration award that had been set aside by the Mexican courts could be…
  • Author: Gabrielle Nater-Bass   |  Publish Date: 25 September 2014
    The authors recall that historically Switzerland has been an attractive location for international corporate headquarters. Switzerland was the first State after Germany to enter into bilateral investment treaties (“BITs”) beginning in 1961. To date, after having signed more than 130 BITs, Switzerland is clearly committed to the availability of investor-state…
  • Author: Ana Carolina Weber   |  Publish Date: 28 August 2014
    The authors analyzed the present situation regarding women in arbitration in Brazil. Despite the encouraging developments in arbitration in Brazil, the authors found the current panorama not as promising as desired. Local statistics show that the percentage of female arbitrators listed with the most prominent Brazilian chambers is low. Lack…
  • Author: Mirèze Philippe   |  Publish Date: 22 July 2014

    In this blog, the launch of the Guide for In-House Counsel and Other Party Representatives on Effective Management of Arbitration Guide (‘Guide’) is reported. Time and costs in arbitration is a debate that started several years ago and remains a concern for the business and for the dispute resolution practitioners…

  • Author: Ileana Smeureanu   |  Publish Date: 26 June 2014
    Arbitration has become an accepted dispute resolution mechanism in Central and Eastern Europe (“CEE”) over the last two decades. Given the diversity of the countries in CEE, arbitral practice in the region is not entirely uniform despite the fact that most CEE countries are parties to international instruments meant to…
  • Author: Sandra de Vito Bieri   |  Publish Date: 15 May 2014
    One of the core elements of long-term Gas Supply Agreements are price review provisions (also called price reopener clauses), which allow parties to review the price of the gas during the life of the agreement. The importance of such clauses lies in the long-term nature of the agreements (often up…
  • Author: Lara Pair   |  Publish Date: 14 March 2014
    The views expressed are those of the author alone and should not be regarded as representative of or binding upon the author’s law firm. Consolidation of multiple disputes into a single arbitration proceeding is considered progress with respect to the efficiency of the arbitration process. Consolidation is a procedural mechanism…
  • Author: Gillian Lemaire   |  Publish Date: 19 February 2014
    Technology in arbitration is of course a vast subject which has been addressed extensively by a number of writers. This article focuses briefly on the issue of reducing paper in arbitrations. It considers: How are practitioners currently dealing with paper reduction at the various stages of an arbitration, especially the…
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