Organisation: World Trade Organisation
Who is sitting at ICSID?
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
New chair at KCAB International
KCAB International has appointed Seung Wha Chang, a professor at Seoul National University School of Law and a specialist in international trade and arbitration, as its new chairman.
19 April 2024
Power grid claim against Guatemala clears hurdle
A Colombian energy distributor’s US$400 million ICSID claim against Guatemala will proceed after a tribunal found that most of the state’s preliminary objections should either be rejected or joined to the merits.
04 January 2024
A new era for investment disputes across Africa?
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
Hodgson named as next ASIL president
Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer partner Mélida Hodgson has been elected as the next president of the American Society of International Law.
05 April 2023
Water wars loom, hears COP fringe event
The African Society of International Law hosted a landmark event in Cairo ahead of the current COP27 climate change summit in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, with warnings of "water wars" among other disasters if action is not taken.
18 November 2022
Freshfields Lecture: The Road Not Taken
Inspired by Robert Frost's famous poem on the divergence of paths in a yellow wood, Andrea Bjorklund considered the roads not taken in investor-state dispute resolution in the first live Freshfields Lecture since the pandemic, held in impressive new surroundings.
08 November 2022
Sands shifts chambers in London
Philippe Sands KC has left Matrix Chambers, the London barristers' chambers he co-founded more than two decades ago, to join 11 King's Bench Walk.
03 October 2022
Norton Rose Fulbright promotes in Perth
Jo Feldman, a former Australian government lawyer who helped to defend the state in its first investment arbitration, has been promoted to partner at Norton Rose Fulbright in Perth.
13 July 2022
Korean government lawyer begins sole practice
Haneul Jung has left his role as director of trade disputes at South Korea’s ministry of trade to become an independent arbitrator based in Seoul.
12 July 2022