Canada has long been an arbitration-friendly jurisdiction and was the first state to adopt the 1985 UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration (“Model…
The Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (“SCC”) was founded in 1917. It is part of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce, but…
With the ascension of the Trump administration, there is a question whether the investor-state dispute settlement (âISDSâ) provisions under the NAFTA will survive. This…
The Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (‘CETA’) between the European Union and Canada was signed October 30, 2016. The deepening of Canadian and European…
The International Chamber of Commerce (the âICCâ) and the United States Council for International Business (the âUSCIBâ) held an event on January 18, 2017,…
While toasting the New Year over a glass or two of champagne, it may have gone unnoticed to many of us that the strike…
Investment treaty arbitrations may be brought under the rules of many different arbitration institutions. As can be expected, each institution has its unique rules…
Most major international arbitration rules require that an award rendered by a tribunal include the reasons upon which it is based. However, arbitration institutions…
The entry into force – on 26 December 2015 and on 17 March 2016 – of two innovative pieces of legislation, the Mediation Act and…