Organisation: The Wall Street Journal

A sole arbitrator at the ICDR has ruled in favour of Daiichi Sankyo in a dispute potentially worth billions of dollars over rights to technology the Japanese drugmaker is using in cancer medicines.

15 August 2022

In the first McNair Lecture in London, Judge Abdulqawi Yusuf of the International Court of Justice explained why international law matters, highlighting its impact on daily life, and arguing that is no longer true that "in times of war, law falls silent". 

26 May 2022

A US energy company has threatened Mexico with a legacy NAFTA claim worth US$667 million over the closure of a fuel storage terminal – a measure it says is part of a government effort to restore the monopoly position of state-owned oil company Pemex.

25 February 2022

A dispute over rights to Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird has settled after an arbitrator ruled following the author's death that successors and heirs to the makers of the Academy award-winning film retain the movie remake and sequel rights.

24 February 2022

A US government-funded media outlet has threatened Russia with an investment treaty claim over "clear attempts to shutter and silence it" at a time when its audience in the country is "skyrocketing".

12 February 2021

Koch Industries, the US conglomerate headed by prominent Republican Party donor Charles Koch, has launched a NAFTA claim against Canada over the cancellation of an emissions trading programme – while a French national has launched a US$493 million ICSID claim against Kuwait relating to the 1MDB scandal.

18 December 2020

UPDATED: Russia’s Gazprom has revealed it is pursuing an arbitration against Italy’s Eni, as it withdraws a price review claim against Germany’s Uniper and warns of a potential investment treaty dispute with Belarus.

17 June 2020

China and the Philippines are negotiating a deal to jointly exploit oil and gas in the disputed waters of the South China Sea – despite an arbitration award which rejected China’s claims to historic rights over the vast majority of the maritime territory.

12 September 2018

A dispute over one of China’s most successful television shows, “The Voice of China,” has been playing out in Hong Kong – with three HKIAC arbitrators in the judging seats.

02 September 2016

The settlement of a longstanding arbitral dispute between the United States and Iran over an aborted arms deal has become a contentious issue in the US presidential election, after the Obama administration admitted that a US$400 million payout to the Middle Eastern state was used as “leverage” to ensure the release of prisoners.

19 August 2016