Organisation: International Court of Justice

Clovis Trevino, who helped Ukraine’s Naftogaz win a US$5 billion award against Russia, has been promoted to the partnership at Covington & Burling in Washington, DC.

03 October 2023

Arbitration practitioners from several well-known law firms and chambers have appeared before a UN tribunal that has been asked to clarify states’ obligations to protect the world’s oceans from the effects of climate change.

26 September 2023

The second Emmanuel Gaillard Debate saw Andrea Bjorklund and Mohamed Shelbaya address the increasingly prevalent and problematic issue of shareholder claims – and specifically claims for reflective loss – in investment arbitration. 

14 September 2023

A US businessman whose ICSID claim against Armenia was thrown out on the ground that he held Armenian nationality has won a bid to have the award partially annulled.

31 July 2023

The Institute for Transnational Arbitration’s latest workshop considered whether remedies in international arbitration are delivering effective redress. Ciara Ros of Vinson & Elkins in London reports.

27 July 2023

Slovenia’s state electricity producer has reportedly won a €67 million UNCITRAL award against a Bosnian energy company over a power plant investment pre-dating the Bosnian war of the 1990s – as a related ICSID claim continues.

20 July 2023

A tribunal at the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague has rejected India’s jurisdictional objections to a claim lodged by Pakistan over two hydroelectric power plants.

06 July 2023

In the latest Lalive lecture, Catherine Amirfar argued that, despite its critics, international adjudication still has an important role to play in peacefully resolving global crises and that one must look at the details of a case and surrounding events to understand its true contribution. Simon Bianchi of Lalive reports.

04 July 2023

Thomas Buergenthal, who survived Auschwitz as a young boy before becoming a leading human rights law pioneer, International Court of Justice judge and arbitrator, has died aged 89. 

16 June 2023

An UNCITRAL tribunal has thrown out US$30 billion in claims lodged by Saudi real estate investors in a treaty case against Egypt, GAR has learned – while it continues to hear remaining claims worth US$22 billion.

07 June 2023