The Arbitration Brief

Sustainable Development Compliance in International Investment Agreements: Enforceable at Arbitration?

By Carolina Joy As international investment agreements (IIAs) increasingly include references to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), investor-state arbitration further becomes a site of global governance, mediating conflicts between private investment protection and public development objectives. Within this dispute resolution mechanism, the tension between the soft law of the SDGs and the hard…

Pregnancy, Power, and Procedure: The WNBA Arbitration Clause Meets Its Limits

By Bella DiPalermo When the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) All-Star Dearica Hamby filed a federal lawsuit alleging pregnancy discrimination and retaliation, she did more than bring a personal claim. She revealed a structural tension at the heart of professional sports: the uneasy coexistence between collective bargaining and individual statutory rights. Hamby’s case, which survived…

The Growth of Regional Arbitration Centers: Providing Localized and Efficient Dispute Resolution

By Reagan Powers Over the past few years, regional arbitration centers have grown in popularity, rivaling the historical dominance of the International Chamber of Commerce and the London Court of International Arbitration. The regional arbitration centers aim to provide cost-effective, localized, and efficient dispute resolution. “Two Person Shaking Each Others Hands – Credit to http://homedust.com/”…

Sign to Survive: Arbitration at the Pace of Formula One

By Ryan Zaitoun How much is seven-tenths of a second worth? In Formula One, it can be close to $10 million. Formula One prides itself as the pinnacle of global motorsport, consisting of (as of January 2, 2026) eleven teams, each with two drivers, racing the fastest single-seat open-wheeled cars on tracks across the world….

Arbitration Without Consent? U.S. Courts Can Force Non-Signatories to Arbitrate, Leaving Arbitrators to Decide Which Claims Will Proceed to Arbitration

By Deborah Slattery-Pereira How U.S. Courts Treat Non-Signatories Parties will subject their disputes “to arbitration if, and only if, [they] actually agree to arbitrate those disputes.” Complex commercial disputes often involve multiple international contracts with different parties, but usually, only two parties sign the arbitration agreement. Because arbitral proceedings depend on a consensual agreement, generally,…