The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit recently compelled two parties to arbitrate their claims despite the abolishment of the forum that they selected in their international commercial arbitration clause. The case...more
Amid the flurry of expected international trade actions by the second Trump administration, the outgoing Biden White House reached a significant (but overlooked) agreement of its own to curtail investor-state dispute...more
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Last week, during its 56th annual commission session in Vienna, the United Nations Committee on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) adopted several legal texts to reform ISDS procedures. As the principal legal...more