Delegates at this year's ICCA Congress in Rio de Janeiro didn’t get to see the statute of Christ the Redeemer in its full glory, but they certainly got a good view of Brazil’s arbitration scene.

ICCA RIO: A delegation of ICCA members and Brazilian practitioners has urged Brazilian Superior Court of Justice judges to consider referring to the New York Convention more when enforcing international arbitration awards, rather than just referring to the relevant domestic legislation.

The coordinator for Argentinian legal affairs at Petrobras in Rio de Janeiro talks about the company’s approach to international arbitration, ICCA 2010 and his experience of refereeing a football "friendly" between arbitration specialists from Brazil and the rest of the world.

The surroundings were sparkling; the programme less so, say some. Was this year’s ICCA Congress in Rio de Janeiro just too big?

This year saw ICCA appoint its first Asian secretary general, Korean lawyer Kap-You (Kevin) Kim and launch a new youth organisation, Young ICCA. Are further changes also afoot as the association approaches its 50th anniversary?

An interview with arbitrator and former International Court of Justice judge, Stephen M Schwebel.

For 35 years, the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce has been synonymous with Ulf Franke.

Shortly after retiring as secretary general of the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce, Ulf Franke tells Alison Ross what it was like to lead the institution for three and a half decades when world trade was booming and East-West barriers were breaking down