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
Two U.S.-based arbitral institutions and two international institutions recently released global caseload data from 2023. The American Arbitration Association–International Centre for Dispute Resolution (AAA-ICDR) experienced...more
International arbitration statistics are back in season. In the first couple of months of 2024, the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC), the World Bank’s International Centre for Settlement...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
Background On May 19, 2023, the First Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in Green Enterprises, LLC v. Hiscox Syndicates Ltd. at Lloyd’s of London that the New York Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral...more