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ArbitralWomen members regularly publish articles in highly-regarded legal and ADR journals



Two parallel toll-road projects commenced in the 1990s, a year apart, connecting Bangkok city to its Don Muang International Airport. Two disputes followed, with two arbitral awards rendered also a year apart. In light of Thailand's refusal to comply with either of the awards rendered against it, what can foreign


A number of Asian jurisdictions have incorporated Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) into their domestic legislation – in many instances, ahead of Western legal systems. India’s new Companies Act, 2013 has formalized obligations that pre-existed under the country’s tradition of community involvement. In effect, Indian companies and business scions in the…


On 2 June 2015, the French Minister of Foreign Trade, Matthias Fekl, submitted to the European Commission a proposal regarding the Investor-State dispute settlement (ISDS) mechanism included in the project for a Transatlantic Trade Investment Partnership between the US and the EU (TTIP). The French Proposal is one further addition…


Abstract

In a world where women outnumber men and where women are active in almost all business and legal fields, women remain under-represented in key positions. Women and men alike are trained and talented, and work as hard. Is the under-representation a question of discrimination or unconscious bias, or a…


The inequality is striking

After significant efforts in the past twenty years to improve the number of women in the judiciary, now around one-third of the United States Supreme Court justices are women, as are 35% of the active judges currently sitting on the thirteen United States federal courts of…


Reproduced with permission from Law Business Research Ltd. This article was first published in Getting the Deal Through: Construction 2016, (published in July 2015; contributing editors: Robert S Peckar and Michael S Zicherman, Peckar & Abramson PC)


Reproduced with permission from Law Business Research Ltd. This article was first published in Getting the Deal Through: Construction 2016, (published in July 2015; contributing editors: Robert S Peckar and Michael S Zicherman, Peckar & Abramson PC)


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…