03 July 2009
After 23 years at Clifford Chance LLP, Nic Fletcher has joined Berwin Leighton Paisner in London as head of international arbitration.
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03 July 2009
Kosovo has become a member of ICSID, paving the way for foreign investment and also perhaps bilateral investment claims that raise difficult issues of state succession under international law.
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Kaj Hober
03 July 2009
Mannheimer Swartling partner
Kaj Hobér has been appointed professor of international law at the University of Dundee, the post formerly occupied by the late
Thomas Wälde.
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03 July 2009
An ICSID tribunal has said that the annulment of an ICC award by a Bangladeshi court amounts to an expropriation and has awarded an Italian oil company US$6 million.
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03 July 2009
The US Supreme Court has refused to hear Chevron's appeal against a ruling that the company may not take Ecuador's government to arbitration over its liability for damage to its rainforest from oil production.
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03 July 2009
Chilean energy company CGE has settled its long-running ICSID arbitration with Argentina over legislation to mitigate the financial crisis, after renegotiating electricity tariffs with three provinces.
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03 July 2009
A team from Versailles University has won the first Spanish language moot in Europe, their second triumph in a matter of weeks.
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01 July 2009
The ICC court's 41 new members were named today, as it begins a new term.
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Nish Shetty
01 July 2009
Clifford Chance has hired a partner and arbitration specialist from a well-known Singapore firm to lead a new South-East Asia dispute resolution practice.
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01 July 2009
CIETAC in Beijing now offers a whole floor of hearing rooms for parties and arbitrators, following a move across town.
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