Publications

European commercial arbitration has had a busy two years. Legislative reform, institutional rule changes, and court decisions across the region during 2024–2025 raise a question worth asking: is a distinctively European approach to commercial arbitration taking shape? This article – the first in what is intended as a continuing series – surveys developments across a range of jurisdictions, including the United Kingdom, Germany, Belgium, and France, as well as changes to the rules of several major European arbitral institutions. The picture that

The article examines whether binding domestic tax arbitration could provide a viable mechanism for resolving tax disputes in the UK. A key theme of the research is that voluntary compliance, and the timely and fair resolution of tax disputes, are not simply administrative matters but constitutional ones. The legitimacy of the tax system depends not only on effective revenue collection, but also on fairness, procedural independence and meaningful avenues for dispute resolution.