Organisation: World Bank

Eight new panels have formed at ICSID in recent weeks, including first-time appointments for Irish barrister Michael Collins SC, DLA Piper’s Kamau Karori and Mohamed Shelbaya of GBS Disputes.

20 October 2023

The modernisation of the African investment treaty system and implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area is underway, with the African Union’s adoption of the final draft of the investment protocol earlier this year, writes Thomas Kendra of Hogan Lovells in Paris.

20 September 2023

ICSID has begun the search for a new secretary general as Meg Kinnear prepares to step down from the role next year.

05 September 2023

CORRECTION: One of Russia’s longest-running arbitral institutions has said it is not affected by recent US sanctions imposed on a separate entity that shares the same name as its parent organisation.

24 August 2023

A tribunal at the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague has rejected India’s jurisdictional objections to a claim lodged by Pakistan over two hydroelectric power plants.

06 July 2023

Rajiv Luthra, a pioneer of the Indian legal market who played a key role in supporting and promoting the system of international arbitration and its institutions, has died aged 65.

23 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 UK election technology company has failed to disqualify Argentina’s Raúl Vinuesa from hearing its US$1.5 billion ICSID claim against Venezuela over his repeat appointments by the state.

02 June 2023

Indian-American business executive Ajay Banga is to take over from David Malpass as president of the World Bank and chair of ICSID’s administrative council.

04 May 2023

Curtis Mallet-Provost Colt & Mosle has promoted energy disputes specialist Susan Maples to partner in New York, while also promoting four new counsel in its Almaty and Astana offices.

18 April 2023