Conference coverage

A panel at GAR Live Riyadh discussed the challenges facing lawyers advising on Saudi Arabia’s multibillion-dollar “giga projects” and the tools they might employ to avoid dispute escalation. 

06 March 2025

A GAR Live panel discussed the future of space disputes – including misconceptions about the industry, complexities of liability beyond Earth and whether arbitration or mediation is more attractive.

27 February 2025

In a keynote at GAR Live Riyadh, ICC Court president Claudia Salomon set out seven practical strategies for winning an international arbitration through written and oral advocacy. 

24 February 2025

At the Singapore launch of the third edition of Mustill & Boyd's classic tome on commercial and investor-state arbitration, delegates discussed the internationalisation of arbitration law.

19 February 2025

Nadja Harraschain of A&O Shearman in Frankfurt reports on the autumn conference of the German Arbitration Institute (DIS), which focused on drivers of innovation in arbitration.

12 February 2025

In a fireside chat at GAR Live Abu Dhabi, the LCIA's deputy director-general Jamie Harrison discussed recent analysis of the institution's case numbers, its growth in the Middle East and the possibility of further amendments to its rules. 

04 February 2025

A panel at GAR Live Abu Dhabi examined the principle adopted by some institutions that sole arbitrators or tribunal chairs with the same nationality as one of the parties are presumed to be biased – and debated whether it should be overturned. 

29 January 2025

This year's Milan Chamber of Arbitration conference looked at the interplay of criminal law and international arbitration, including discussion of the Lagergren case, which a speaker said marked the start of the transition from an "eyes shut" to a "zero-tolerance" approach to corruption 60 years ago, and of the more recent Enrica Lexie inter-state case between India and Italy. 

28 January 2025

A panel at Dubai Arbitration Week discussed the results of a recent Baker Botts survey on applications to annul investment arbitration awards – and whether the findings demonstrated the need to reform the ICSID annulment system.  

20 January 2025

At the CRCICA's biennial event in Sharm-El-Sheikh, Egyptian practitioner Karim A Youssef discussed "hub-formation": how to transform Middle Eastern and North African seats into global arbitration hubs, with reference to the GAR-CIArb Seat Index and White List of arbitration centres worldwide. 

18 December 2024