Organisation: World Bank

World Bank president Ajay Banga has added 20 names to ICSID’s panels of arbitrators and conciliators – while the US, China, Colombia and Pakistan are among the latest states to make designations. 

04 July 2024

UPDATED: The Arbitration Bar of India has called on the government to withdraw new guidelines that seek to discourage the inclusion of arbitration clauses in domestic procurement contracts.

21 June 2024

Ahead of her keynote speech at London International Disputes Week, ICSID’s departing secretary general Meg Kinnear spoke to GAR about the centre’s remarkable growth over her 15-year tenure, how she reacts to critiques of investor-state dispute settlement and what she plans to do next. 

22 May 2024

Eleven panels have formed at ICSID in recent weeks, including first-time appointments for Francis Xavier SC of Rajah & Tann and Mexican-Spanish trade lawyer Christian Vidal-León.

13 May 2024

ICSID deputy secretary general Martina Polasek has been elected as the institution’s next secretary general, after the centre outlined measures to avoid potential conflicts of interest arising from her marriage to White & Case arbitration partner Petr Polášek.

02 May 2024

Belgium’s Court of Cassation has reinstated an investment treaty award that ordered Poland to pay US$10 million to a US hedge fund over a denial of justice. 

30 April 2024

Jonathan Ulrich and Alejandro Martinez de Hoz have left White & Case to join Paul Hastings as of counsel in Washington, DC – a month after partner Jonathan Hamilton made the same move to become practice co-chair.  

15 April 2024

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

Following Toby Landau KCʼs Alexander Lecture, members of the audience debated his idea about the need to re-politicise investor-state arbitration in light of the expanding nature of disputes, allowing more consideration of context and input from stakeholders. 

12 April 2024

The documentary film which inspired Toby Landau KC’s Alexander Lecture provides “a rare look” at the human impact of arbitration and has been declared “essential viewing” for arbitrators and arbitration practitioners by critics of investor-state dispute settlement.

12 April 2024