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Where Do International Civil Servants Go for Justice?
Immunity from lawsuits afforded to international organizations, such as the United Nations, the World Bank Group and International Labour Organization, may have the beneficial effect of ensuring their...
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Roll Out the Red Carpet: The Hague Rules on Business and Human Rights...
Introducing the Rules Playing its part in the twenty-first century movement to protect human rights, the international legal community has taken a significant step forward by providing for a framework...
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2019 in Review: International Investment Agreements and Human Rights
Several developments in 2019 highlighted the increased presence of human rights considerations in international investment law. As described by our contributors, however, tensions persist. The 2019...
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The Hague Rules on Business and Human Rights Arbitration: Noteworthy or Not...
In a recent post, we were told to ‘Roll Out the Red Carpet’ for the Hague Rules on Business and Human Rights Arbitration (the “Rules”). Indeed, the Rules are a new development within the field to...
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ISDS Reform and Advancing All “Generations” of Human Rights
Reforms Are Afoot Calls for investor-State dispute settlement (“ISDS”) reform have catalyzed efforts to evolve the regime. Concurrently, the ISDS system continues to wrestle with tensions between an...
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New Terrain for International Arbitration: The International Dispute...
The 99th Annual Meeting of the American Branch of the International Law Association (“ILA (American Branch)”), known as International Law Weekend (“ILW”), took place virtually this year in New York...
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Human Rights and Arbitration: A discussion between the President of the...
The intersection between human rights and arbitration is often complicated and ambiguous. The recent discussion between the President of the European Court of Human Rights (“ECtHR”), Judge Robert...
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2020 in Review: The Pandemic, Investment Treaty Arbitration, and Human Rights
It will come as no surprise to the readers of this blog that the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on international arbitration (see blog coverage here). In this post, we take a...
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Violation of Human Rights under the ECHR: A Valid Challenge of Arbitral...
Among its over 50 decisions on appeals against arbitral awards rendered in 2020, the Swiss Federal Supreme Court (“Supreme Court”) in two decisions yet again addressed a delicate issue on the...
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Traversing Cyber, Indigenous, New Space, Mediation, and COVID-19 Disputes:...
The Third Annual Schiefelbein Global Dispute Resolution Conference took place on Friday, January 15, 2021. The conference was hosted by the Lodestar Dispute Resolution Center at the Sandra Day O’Connor...
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New Opportunities for Arbitration Lawyers: Climate Change, Outer Space and...
International arbitration is changing at a fast pace, and opportunities arise every day in this field. In this context, on May 25, 2021, Young Arbitral Women Practitioners, Holland & Knight, and...
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Notes From Practice: Announcing The SIFCA Framework – Is The Confluence Of...
This post shares a development of potential significance, i.e., the drafting of the Sustainable Investment Facilitation & Cooperation Agreement (SIFCA), a next-generation model bilateral investment...
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Regime Interaction in Investment Arbitration: Crowded Streets; Are Human...
Globalization has diversified the actors, institutions, norms, and instruments on the international legal stage. With diversification comes increased specialization and, in turn, organization around...
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Washington Arbitration Week: What can Corporate Social Responsibility and...
The second edition of Washington Arbitration Week (WAW) drew attention to areas of synergy between corporate social responsibility (“CSR”), human rights assessments and international arbitration....
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Berlin Dispute Resolution Days 2022: ESG – Dawn of A New Era of Disputes in...
On 14 September 2022, the DIS40 Autumn Conference was held in Berlin, Germany, as part of the first edition of Berlin Dispute Resolution Days – a near week-long series of conferences and events focused...
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2022 in Review: Climate Change as a Mainstream Issue for Investment Treaty...
2022 was arguably the year when climate change entered the mainstream of policymaking in the investment treaty regime, with a particular focus on aligning the regime with international climate...
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2022 Year in Review: Widening the Human Rights Aperture for ISDS
This is the fourth consecutive year that we, either together or separately, have reported on trends at the intersection of human rights and international investment arbitration from the prior year (see...
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Kaplan Lecture 2022 Report: Investor-State Arbitration – A New Frontier
On 30 November 2022, the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (along with the British Institute of International and Comparative Law) organised the 2022 Kaplan Lecture. The lecture was delivered...
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Canvassing Views on AI in IA: The Rise of Machine Learning
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been used in international arbitration for quite some time now. Before the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, there seemed to be an implied consensus that neither soft...
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2023 Year in Review: Human Rights and ISDS – Same Play, Different Actors
This is the fifth consecutive year that we, either together or separately, have reported on trends at the intersection of human rights and international investment arbitration from the prior year (see...
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