Organisation: United Nations General Assembly

In his GAR Award-winning Alexander Lecture at the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Toby Landau KC considered the "scars" left by investor-state arbitration as cases become more political and tribunals rule on "ever more sensitive areas of sovereign discretion".

12 April 2024

Russia appears to have added prominent arbitrator Lucy Reed to a list of US citizens subject to sanctions following her election to the board of the Register of Damage for Ukraine.

20 March 2024

The co-head of international arbitration at Kyiv firm Asters, Markiyan Kliuchkovskyi, has left the firm to oversee a register of damage caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

04 July 2023

Diversity was a key theme at the GAR Awards in Paris, with prize-winners including Maxi Scherer, initiatives in Africa and the authors of a global guide to women arbitrators – while Gabrielle Kaufmann-Kohler became the first woman to pick up a GAR lifetime achievement award.

31 March 2023

To mark its centenary this year, the ICC International Court of Arbitration has issued a declaration setting out its unwavering commitment to access to justice and the rule of law and its vision for leading dispute resolution for the next century. 

01 February 2023

The United Nations General Assembly has recognised the need for an international mechanism to seek reparations from Russia for its war in Ukraine, while recommending the creation of a register of damage to substantiate future claims.

15 November 2022

At the ICC annual arbitration & ADR conference in London, attention turned to climate change and the launch of a “Green Arbitration” initiative – with a panel of arbitrators and counsel discussing the arbitration sector’s carbon footprint.

15 November 2019

US president Donald Trump has said he plans to appoint a former arbitration specialist as his special envoy for hostage affairs.

11 May 2018

UNCITRAL has celebrated its 50th anniversary in Cairo after talks in Vienna on the reform of investor-state dispute settlement were delayed by a day-and-a-half owing to disagreement among delegates as to who should preside.

11 December 2017

Sir Christopher Greenwood QC looks likely to return to Essex Court Chambers to resume his practice as an arbitrator after withdrawing from the race for the last spot on the bench of the International Court of Justice.

21 November 2017