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Equal Representation in Arbitration (ERA) Pledge: A Turning Point in the Arbitration History for Gender Equality
Author: Mirèze Philippe | Published on: 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…
Fit for purpose? The EU’s Investment Court System
Author: Louise Woods | Published on: 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…
Istanbul Arbitration Centre
Author: Ayça Aydin | Published on: 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…
Mooties Making A Difference: Reaching Out To Build In Cambodia
Author: Louise Barrington | Published on: 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…
Hypochondria About the Place of Arbitration in Online Proceedings
Author: Mirèze Philippe | Published on: 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…
What’s Next? – Practical Ponderings on Arbitrators and Overturned Jurisdictional Awards
Author: Lara Pair | Published on: 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…
The PRC’s New Provisions on Recognition and Enforcement of Taiwan’s Civil Judgments and Arbitral Awards
Author: Helena Chen | Published on: 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…
The Evolution of Arbitration in the Arab World
Author: Cherine Foti | Published on: 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…
Roundtable Report: “Les femmes dans l’arbitrage, Est-ce si différent?”
Author: Lara Elborno | Published on: 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…
Conference report on Wendy Miles’ keynote speech at the YAF/YAPP conference in Vienna (28 March 2015): “The Role of Young Arbitrators in the Rule of Law”
Author: Ileana Smeureanu | Published on: 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…