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To resolve their commercial disputes with their business partners, companies increasingly prefer alternative dispute resolution (ADR) mechanisms, e.g. arbitration or mediation, over litigation. [...]

When it comes to cross-border transactions, parties can agree to have their contracts governed by rules of law specifically tailored by private institutions to meet the needs of international [...]

The ECJ’s Achmea judgment (C-284/16) has caused a stir in the arbitration community – also with regard to the Energy Charter Treaty (“ECT”). Dr. Ewelina Kragiel, LL.M. examines: [...]

There are few binding rules on the taking of evidence in international arbitration. For more certainty on how to deal with evidentiary issues, parties have, in countless arbitrations over the [...]

Our two-part series on WHAT’S TRENDING IN EU INVESTMENT LAW & POLICY concludes with Dr Nicolas Klein’s analysis of new trends in Member States’ Model BITs. Meet our team at this week’s UNCTAD [...]

On the occasion of the upcoming 2018 UNCTAD World Investment Forum in Geneva, our two-part series on WHAT’S TRENDING IN EU INVESTMENT LAW & POLICY, authored by Dr Nicolas Klein, sheds a light [...]

In March 2018, the Court of Justice of the European Union rendered its landmark decision in Case C-284/16 (“Achmea”). Müge Erdoğmuş explains why the ECJ’s ruling is neither surprising nor [...]

We are phasing in our newsfeed on international dispute resolution with partner AXEL BENJAMIN HERZBERG’s reflections on legal project management in dispute resolution. Whether in litigation or [...]