Region: International

The third edition of the Institute of Transnational Arbitration’s conference on international arbitration in the mining sector took place in Toronto last month, focusing on critical minerals, regulatory frameworks and the increasingly debated concept of the “social licence to operate”. Tom Villalón of Three Crowns in Washington DC reports.

17 April 2025

The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, or Ciarb, has published guidelines on the use of artificial intelligence in arbitration – the latest effort to provide practical guidance on ethical use of the technology.

16 April 2025

John Fellas, arbitrateAD and Latham & Watkins all picked up prizes at this year’s GAR Awards – which also saw three firms win our inaugural regional practice awards and Brigitte Stern honoured with a lifetime achievement award. 

11 April 2025

Global Arbitration Review has unveiled its annual ranking of the world’s leading international arbitration practices. 

11 April 2025

After US president Donald Trump’s unprecedented tariff policy put the world on the brink of a global trade war, Mark Mangan and Gillian Lee of boutique firm Lindsay Francis & Mangan consider the types of disputes that could arise – and whether that includes investment treaty cases. 

10 April 2025

The latest survey by White & Case and the Queen Mary School of International Arbitration shows that London and Singapore remain the most popular arbitral seats, while most practitioners expect they will soon be using artificial intelligence in their work.  

08 April 2025

ExxonMobil senior counsel Tom Sikora used a virtual appearance at Paris Arbitration Week to criticise some of the “debilitating” proposals for reform of investor-state dispute settlement being considered by UNCITRAL working group III, including curbs on shareholder claims and provisions for counterclaims. 

07 April 2025

China’s Lenovo and Sweden’s Ericsson have agreed to drop litigation over licensing of cellular patents in various countries and resolve their remaining disputes through arbitration. 

04 April 2025

At the IBA Arbitration Day, Catherine Amirfar and Constantine Partasides KC considered the value of international arbitration as a tool of peace in times of global crisis, discussing its role in events such as the blockade on Qatar and the Bosnian War.

04 April 2025

The Russian Arbitration Association has filed an amicus curiae brief with the Court of Justice of the European Union, urging it to adopt a narrow reading of the “no claims” clause in the EU’s Russia sanctions regulation or risk negative effects including potential investment treaty claims. 

19 March 2025