ICCA: New Tool for Assessing Damages in International Arbitration

Freshfields reviews the AAA’s recent amendments to its widely used Commercial Arbitration Rules—effective as of 1 September 2022: The amendments provide new rules for consolidation and joinder, not in the prior version, bringing the AAA into alignment with the other prominent arbitration institutions […]  The amendments also offer improved

Arbitration The biggest news of the week comes directly from the European Commission which called for a “coordinated withdrawal” of EU member states from the Energy Charter Treaty. The Global Arbitration Review helpfully summarised: In a major policy U-turn, the European Commission has proposed a “coordinated withdrawal” of EU member

Arbitration Kluwer Arbitration Blog dove into a recent Swiss Federal Supreme Court decision which clarified when a subsequently discovered ground for challenging an arbitrator can also be a ground for challenging an award: According to the Court, a review of the award due to alleged bias of an arbitrator on