By: Adaeze Mgbeahuru; Junior Staffer Confidentiality is an essential part of arbitration and dispute resolution. Parties engage in arbitration and dispute resolution because of the core element of confidentiality. However, in recent times, parties in international commercial and investor-state arbitration proceedings are increasingly waiving confidentiality during and after arbitration. Recently, most institutional arbitration proceedings are…
Category: Commercial
Arbitration in Times of Restrained Social Relations Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic
The year 2020 will be remembered in history as the year in which humanity faced the COVID-19 pandemic. It seems that it will remain our day-to-day concern for some time with devastating effects on the economies of developed and developing countries all around the world. Another consequence of the pandemic is that many domestic judicial…
The Potential Tribulations of the China International Commercial Court (CICC)
In 2013, China’s President, Xi Jinping, announced the “New Silk Road,” which would be the largest infrastructure development from East Asia to Europe. It was later coined as the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The Belt and Road would consist of not only physical infrastructure but also fifty special economic zones. To date, roughly 60…
La Convención de la Haya sobre Ejecución de 2019 y el efecto en la selección del arbitraje internacional como método de resolución de conflictos
Editor’s Note: This piece is part of our on-going Spanish-publication series. English Language Summary: On 2 July 2019, the delegates of the 22nd Diplomatic Session of the Hague Conference on Private International Law signed the Final Act of, and thus adopted, the 2019 Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Civil or Commercial…
The Arbitration Brief 