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…
Category: Developments
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/”…
Contracting a Womb: The Necessity of an Arbitration Clause
By Brenna Callahan In 2025, it is difficult to imagine a world without surrogacy. Celebrities like Kim Kardashian and Andy Cohen have ushered society into a new era of contracting a womb. The practice benefits same-sex couples and women with prohibitive health conditions. However, its popularity has only recently reached the masses. In the early…
Now We Have “Bad Blood”: Anti-Trust Arbitration in the Taylor Swift Era
BY: Amy Liu, Junior Staffer In November 2022, Ticketmaster faced major political and public scrutiny after its systems malfunctioned during ticket sales to Taylor Swift’s sixth concert tour, the Eras Tour. On November 15, 2022, when the sale went live, Ticketmaster’s platform crashed within the hour, which logged out users or froze them in queues….
Balancing Acts: The Profit Potential and Pitfalls of Investor-State Dispute Settlement
by: Shannon Moloney, Articles Editor Investor-state dispute settlement (“ISDS”) provisions provide investors and nations with a framework to arbitrate issues that arise under both bilateral investment treaties (“BIT”) and free trade agreements (“FTA”). Investors often pursue damages against host countries that are parties to international treaties with ISDS provisions if host nations do not abide…
The Arbitration Brief 