Organisation: United Nations

Sir Christopher Greenwood KC combined an eloquent analysis of the role of public international law in arbitration with entertaining stories from his own career in the 38th Freshfields Lecture. 

11 December 2023

An event during Canadian Arbitration Week in Toronto discussed appropriate disclosure for arbitrators when accepting appointments, including recent case law from the UK, France and US that seeks to clarify applicable standards. Timothy Hughes, independent counsel and arbitrator based in Calgary, reports.

16 November 2023

Arbitration practitioners from several well-known law firms and chambers have appeared before a UN tribunal that has been asked to clarify states’ obligations to protect the world’s oceans from the effects of climate change.

26 September 2023

A documentary looking at key moments in the history of international arbitration and how it has transformed international trade and development in Africa and Asia has been released to mark the 40th anniversary of the Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration.

22 September 2023

International arbitration specialists have shared personal tales for a new IBA competition inspired by the covid-19 pandemic, including heartfelt stories about family breakdowns and bereavements and the ugly undersides of the battles for gender and geographical diversity.

12 September 2023

The United Nations Commission on International Trade Law has formally adopted a code of conduct for arbitrators in investor-state disputes that it developed jointly with ICSID.

17 July 2023

The global arbitration community is mourning the loss of Eric Bergsten, the man behind the Vis Moot, who has died aged 91.

14 July 2023

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

In the latest Lalive lecture, Catherine Amirfar argued that, despite its critics, international adjudication still has an important role to play in peacefully resolving global crises and that one must look at the details of a case and surrounding events to understand its true contribution. Simon Bianchi of Lalive reports.

04 July 2023

In the latest Hugo Grotius Lecture on International Arbitration in Madrid, Claudia Salomon spoke about how the overused but beautiful metaphor for peace in the bible's Book of Isiah – turning swords into plowshares – captures the purpose of the ICC Court. 

29 June 2023