Organisation: United Nations

Sophie Lamb KC used a keynote speech at GAR Live Stockholm to consider the future of arbitration during the transition to green energy in the face of increasing public scrutiny and predicted that mediation is likely to play a greater role than before.

20 June 2023

Thomas Buergenthal, who survived Auschwitz as a young boy before becoming a leading human rights law pioneer, International Court of Justice judge and arbitrator, has died aged 89. 

16 June 2023

A Pakistani poultry company has brought a claim against a United Nations agency before the Permanent Court of Arbitration, accusing it of breaching a procurement contract.

16 May 2023

The United Nations has recently reached a historic agreement on environmental protection known as the High Seas Treaty. Meriam Al-Rashid and Kate Johnston of Eversheds Sutherland consider its key provisions and compare it with another important environmental treaty covering Latin America.

03 May 2023

The Swiss Federal Supreme Court has rejected a bid to attach assets belonging to Spain, affirming that an ICSID award holder targeting a foreign state’s assets must demonstrate the matter has a “sufficient domestic connection” to Switzerland.

03 May 2023

Charles N Brower's gripping new memoir tells of his time on the Iran-US Claims Tribunal and experience of "the intoxicating puzzle box that is international arbitration", as well as mounting an eloquent defence of this form of dispute settlement at a time when it is increasingly under threat. 

20 April 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

Myanmar’s government-in-exile has threatened to bring an arbitration against a Thai state-owned petroleum company to halt payments that it alleges are funding human rights violations by the country’s ruling military junta.

23 March 2023

Singapore firm Rajah & Tann has hired Vanina Sucharitkul, an academic and former Herbert Smith Freehills lawyer, as partner in its international arbitration practice.

16 March 2023

Catherine Amirfar and Annette Magnusson are to chair a high-level ICCA panel that will develop and promote a draft annex on conciliation of disputes for the Paris Agreement and its parent treaty, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. 

24 February 2023