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    Expert and law reform advice

    Expert reports and law reform advice

    Arbitration Lab draws on a network of professionals with extensive experience and knowledge in international dispute resolution to provide expert opinions or proposals for regulatory reforms.

    Expert opinions

    The expert witnesses apply their expertise to give a professional opinion to the tribunal or court on particular matters in dispute.

    Expert witnesses express their independent expert opinion based on the information provided in different capacities at arbitrations, tribunals, and litigation.

    Our experts typically prepare a report summarizing their analysis and conclusions, which we subsequently shared with other parties, judges, arbitrators or adjudicators.

    Advice on regulatory reforms

    Arbitration Lab offers advice and assistance on policy issues and legislative reforms, primarily in the area of international dispute resolution and related issues. Employing comparative law approaches and drawing on best practices from leading jurisdictions allows us to propose tailored regulatory options.

    We prepare reform proposals, drafts of regulatory enactments and studies on legal and institutional frameworks for States, intergovernmental organizations, non-governmental organisations and lobbying groups.

    Arbitration Lab consultants:

    • assemble data, laws, and regulations that are either directly or indirectly relevant to the reform-affected sector;
    • conduct analysis of data including foreign laws and regulations, highlighting strengths and weaknesses and comparative competitiveness with other jurisdictions in the region or globally; and
    • provide assistance to the States in presenting and defending the reform proposals or introducing draft texts before the government or parliament.

    Examples of expert opinions and regulatory reform projects

    Arbitration Lab consultants engage in providing legal opinions and legislative reform initiatives in various jurisdictions, drawing on their knowledge of domestic, regional and international law frameworks, primarily using comparative and empirical methods.

    Examples of successfully completed projects include:

    • conducting a comparative analysis of regulations in leading arbitration hubs of ad hoc arbitral institutions for the benefit of the Government of China and formulating regulatory options
    • conducting a comparative study and preparing recommendations aimed at improving the regulation of international arbitration for a Saudi Arabia government agency
    • advising a government in Central Asia on reforms of its investment protection legislation and international investment agreements as a part of a project funded by the World Bank
    • advising the United Arab Emirates Government on the reform of the Ministry of Justice and judiciary
    • advising Dubai Legal Department, Dubai Government Excellence Program on reform of the legal profession in Dubai
    • conducting a World Bank-funded comparative law analysis of the best practices among the OECD States to draw recommendations for the government of a Central Asian State on the reform of rule-making, legislative procedures, functions of the ministry of justice and corporate governance
    • preparing a report with recommendations on the development of law and policy related to foreign direct investments in international treaties and domestic law for a post-Soviet State
    • conducting training of judges and public officials on peaceful settlement of maritime disputes and delimitation of maritime boundaries
    • lobbying and advising policymakers on the implementation of the Statute of International Criminal Court into domestic law
    • conducting best practices analysis to prepare recommendations for the United Kingdom and Canadian governments on the post-Brexit regulation of foreign investment protection and dispute resolution mechanisms.

    Please email info@arbitrationlab.com with any questions.