In this Issue:

- Thwarting Torpedoes and Other Clarifications: Recast Brussels Regulation in Force From 10 January 2015

- International Energy Charter Signals New Global Cooperation in the Energy Sector

- Better, Faster, Cheaper: CPR Offers New Rules for International Arbitration

- CIETAC’s New Arbitration Rules for 2015

- IBA Issues Revised Guidelines on Conflict of Interest

- Excerpt from Thwarting Torpedoes and Other Clarifications: Recast Brussels Regulation in Force From 10 January 2015:

The European Parliament and Council update the Regulation on jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments within the EU to improve clarity and eliminate stalling tactics.

One of the relatively unsung success stories of the European Union (and its predecessors) is its experiment in judicial co-operation. The first major component of this experiment was the 1968 Brussels Convention on Jurisdiction and the Enforcement of Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters. The Brussels Convention was updated, and partly superseded, by Council Regulation (EC) No 44/2001 on jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters. Regulation 44/2001 (now referred to as the Original Brussels Regulation) has been recast by Regulation (EU) No 1215/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council on jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters (referred to as the Recast Brussels Regulation).