Organisation: OECD
Bahraini launch event looks at investor-state mediation
Amid efforts to modernise ISDS, and with investors and states often settling disputes before an arbitration award, the launch event of the Council of International Dispute Resolution of the Kingdom of Bahrain in Riyadh explored way to promote more amicable resolution of disputes through negotiation or mediation.
12 March 2025
Align ISDS with climate change goals, says Mourre
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
Greek women's group launches
Six international arbitration practitioners of Greek origin from across the globe have established a group for Greek women in arbitration, aiming to promote professional development, networking and mentoring.
21 March 2024
We're losing the ISDS fight, warns Mourre
In a lecture in Miami, Alexis Mourre has suggested the arbitration community is "losing" the fight to ensure the survival of ISDS, endangering the future of commercial arbitration in the process, and should instead contemplate a return to the contractual protection of investments.
19 January 2024
New disputes boutique launches in Miami and Madrid
US arbitrator Carlos Concepción has launched a new Miami-headquartered boutique, which Munia El Harti Alonso has joined as counsel in Madrid from Ecuadorian firm Robalino.
05 December 2023
Shareholder claims: what’s wrong with them?
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
Ex-OECD adviser joins Arnold & Porter
Katia Yannaca-Small, who worked for two decades at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, has joined Arnold & Porter as a senior international arbitration adviser in Washington, DC.
10 February 2023
Freshfields Lecture: The Road Not Taken
Inspired by Robert Frost's famous poem on the divergence of paths in a yellow wood, Andrea Bjorklund considered the roads not taken in investor-state dispute resolution in the first live Freshfields Lecture since the pandemic, held in impressive new surroundings.
08 November 2022
GAR Live Miami: has the ESG era already begun?
The era of ESG is here already and will be a “future battleground for disputes”, the Latin Lawyer and GAR Live Arbitration Summit in Miami heard this week.
27 May 2022
We need to talk about ESG
Environmental, social and governance issues are looming ever larger in investor-state arbitration, with tribunals facing difficult questions relating to climate change, human rights and corruption, John Gaffney of Al Tamimi in Abu Dhabi has argued.
19 April 2022