By: Deborah Slattery-Pereira, Senior Staffer Brazil enacted the Brazilian Arbitration Act (“BAA”) in 1996, adopting the United Nations Commission on Trade Law (“UNCITRAL”) Model Law. Brazilian courts played an active role in supporting arbitration proceedings and recognizing arbitration as a constitutional alternative dispute resolution mechanism. Now, the issues of arbitrators’ duty to disclose and increased…
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India-Brazil BIT: A Step in the Right Direction
On January 26, 2020, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was the chief guest during India’s 71st Republic Day Parade. Later that week a strategic partnership was formed between the countries as India signed a bilateral investment treaty (BIT) with Brazil to further develop relations between the two states on both a cultural and commercial level. Recently,…
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