Organisation: School of International Arbitration

In the 39th annual Freshfields Arbitration Lecture, Egyptian arbitrator Mohamed Abdel Wahab discussed the controversial iura novit arbiter principle and proposed a new protocol to deal with divergent approaches and bring an end to the “legal desperation” surrounding its application.

28 November 2024

Former Freshfields lawyer turned barrister and arbitrator Tariq Baloch has moved chambers in London, leaving 3 Verulam Buildings for Essex Court Chambers.

08 October 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

Monty Taylor has left the partnership at Arnold & Porter in London to join Tenth Floor Chambers in Sydney as a barrister. 

04 June 2024

The 39th Annual Joint Symposium of Arbitrators of the Queen Mary School of International Arbitration and the ICC Institute of World Business Law focused on fraud in international arbitration.

19 May 2024

Le Café des Arbitres, or LCDA, a series of Paris-based conferences hosted by Queen Mary University of London’s School of International Arbitration, marked its 10th anniversary with an event discussing the impact of technology and artificial intelligence and whether international arbitration as an industry will survive.

26 February 2024

Held in a magnificent hall frescoed with “lawgivers” of the past, this year’s Freshfields Lecture featured contributions from Julian Lew KC, Norah Gallagher and Sylvia Noury KC as well as the main lecturer. 

11 December 2023

Stavros Brekoulakis is leaving Queen Mary University of London to join the National University of Singapore, where he will take up a new international arbitration professorship funded through a gift by Michael Hwang SC.

21 November 2023

The inaugural Edinburgh International Arbitration Festival, or ArbFest, took place on 21 and 22 September, featuring discussion of emerging technologies and ESG, the advantages of smaller institutions and ISDS. Lilit Nagapetyan, PhD candidate at the Queen Mary School of International Arbitration, reports.

26 September 2023

Julian Lew KC has been presented with a Liber Amicorum to mark his recent 75th birthday and his extraordinary contributions to the development of both the theory and practice of international arbitration.

08 June 2023