Conference coverage

After Toby Landau KC told delegates at GAR Live Singapore that the current system of investor-state arbitration was “inherently problematic”, a subsequent panel considered the alternatives – after which not a single member of the audience said they believed the world would be better off without investor-state dispute resolution.

05 September 2024

As the German Arbitration Institute (DIS) gears up for its autumn conference in Berlin next week, Christian Steger of RSM Ebner Stolz in Hamburg recaps the institute’s spring conference, which focused on the protection of procedural integrity in arbitration proceedings.

03 September 2024

Readers are invited to join us for GAR Live Dubai in November – featuring views from in-house counsel on handling arbitrations, as well as panels on the cost of proceedings in the region and integrating artificial intelligence. 

21 August 2024

In his first public speech as a professor of the National University of Singapore, Stavros Brekoulakis presented the findings of an empirical project he is leading on impartiality in ISDS and argued that the judicial test of impartiality currently applied to arbitrators is insufficiently nuanced and divorced from reality. 

20 August 2024

In a speech in Baku, Azerbaijan, where COP29 will take place later this year, Alexis Mourre considered how investor-state dispute settlement can be made to align with climate change goals, with reference to recent Energy Charter Treaty cases.

13 August 2024

An event at the Queen Mary School of International Arbitration looked at the recently updated rules of the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC), featuring insights from the institution’s secretary general Joanne Lau and independent arbitrator Nicholas Peacock. 

05 August 2024

The sixth annual summer conference of Greece’s Athens Mediation & Arbitration Organisation (EODID) focused on remedies and evidence in commercial arbitration. Sotiris Dempegiotis and Maria Mposmponi of Lambadarios Law Firm report. 

01 August 2024

"Has international arbitration lost its way? And, is it a time for a reset?" were the questions posed to a group of leading practitioners from around the world at a roundtable held by GAR and the LCIA. 

23 July 2024

Panellists at the second edition of the Azerbaijan Arbitration Days (AzAD) discussed the progress the country has made in the field of arbitration, including the adoption of the state’s new arbitration law.  

22 July 2024

At GAR Live Istanbul, representatives from the ICC, LCIA, SIAC and Swiss Arbitration Centre compared the institutions’ approaches to appointment of arbitrators, disclosure standards, scrutiny of awards and sanctions.

15 July 2024