Sworn into the Supreme Court on October 27, 2020, the third Supreme Court nominee from President Donald Trump is poised to set a conservative supermajority on the highest court. Justice Amy Coney Barrett, a judge from the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, took the seat vacated by Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who had passed away on September…
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Limitation Period for Enforcing Foreign Awards: Is the Confusion Settled?
On September 16, 2020, the Indian Supreme Court in Government of India v. Vedanta Ltd (‘Vedanta’) settled the ambiguity regarding the applicability of the limitation period for the enforcement of foreign arbitral awards in India. In the year 2008, arbitral proceedings were initiated between Government of India (‘GOI’) and Vedanta Ltd., with Malaysia as the seat. Subsequently,…
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 Impact of COVID-19 on Arbitration
COVID-19 has already impacted almost every industry. Many in-person communications are moving online via teleconferencing and videos. The economic markets in nearly every country are being enormously affected, supply chains have been halted, and many employees can no longer go to work to manufacture products. These major changes to the world economy will no doubt…
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…
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