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Closing Keynote: Arbitration and Armed Conflict
On 20 June, Suzanne Spears delivered the closing keynote address of the 2025 London Summer Arbitration School. The lecture addressed Arbitration and Armed Conflict. Below is a video recording and a short summary of the lecture. We live in an era in which the number of armed conflicts globally has reached the highest level since […]
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Investment Arbitration: How to Get Through? Video of Closing Keynote by Prof Thomas Schultz
Professor Thomas Schultz (King’s College London and the University of Geneva) delivered the closing keynote address of the 2024 Basel Winter Arbitration School on Friday, 9 February 2024. The video of the keynote is now available online. Investment arbitration, as a system, seems not to change much. Change the BITs, the decisions come out the […]
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‘Arbitrating Energy Disputes in Times of Crisis’ – Opening Lecture by Anya George
The opening lecture of the 2023 Basel Winter Arbitration School delivered by Anya George, Schellenberg Wittmer. The energy sector is facing a range of unprecedented challenges, such as continuing supply chain disruptions in the wake of the global pandemic; an oil and gas supply crunch due to the Russia-Ukraine conflict; extreme price volatility and […]
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Annual ISDS Update: Energy Charter Treaty, UNCITRAL Working Group III, sanctions, corruption
Arbitration Lab has just released the 2023 edition of the Annual ISDS Update, which is available in the live format and as an asynchronous online course with videos, quizzes and additional materials. The course covers: • An overview of the Energy Charter Treaty reform process, its impact on ISDS and why states withdraw from the […]
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Video of keynote address ‘Arbitrating the Laws of War’ delivered by Professor Eyal Benvenisti
Professor Eyal Benvenisti, University of Cambridge, delivers the keynote address of the 2022 London Summer Arbitration School, titled “Arbitrating the Laws of War”. Increasingly, the most sophisticated legal tools designed in the post-Cold War era to deepen global economic integration, by removing barriers to trade and protecting foreign investments, are called upon to address warfare […]
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Reviewing Arbitration – Contradiction in Terms or Necessary Virtue? Video of keynote delivered by Prof August Reinisch
The video of Prof August Reinisch from the University of Vienna delivering a keynote address at the Basel Winter Arbitration School is now available online. The keynote lecture discusses whether and to what extent not only a residual review concerning the procedural aspects of arbitration but also review concerning the substantive results of arbitration is […]
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London Summer Arbitration School 2022 invites applications
The London Summer Arbitration School will bring together leading practitioners, academics and representatives of arbitral institutions. The school will take place on 20-24 June 2022 at the Bush House, Aldwych. While many are familiar with the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), fewer practitioners know about more specialised areas of international arbitration. Building on the […]
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A new study examines annulment in ICSID Arbitration
The British Institute of International and Commercial Law and Baker Botts concluded a study dealing with annulment in ICSID Arbitration. This empirical study examines over 150 annulment decisions rendered by ICSID ad hoc committees and offers a unique insight into how the ICSID system deals with annulment. It provides a detailed examination of the entire […]
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New empirical study examines costs, damages and duration in investor-State arbitration
A new empirical study examines costs, damages and duration in investor-State arbitration. This study is co-authored by Professor Yarik Kryvoi, Director of the Investment Treaty Forum of BIICL, with Matthew Hodgson and Daniel Hrčka of Allen & Overy examines over 400 investor-State cases conducted under ICSID, UNCITRAL and other arbitration rules, and over 70 ICSID annulment […]