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On December 7, 2018, the Hong Kong Department of Justice released its long-awaited Code of Practice for Third-Party Funding of Arbitration, which can be found HERE. The Code—which takes effect on February 1, 2019—sets [...]

In Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s first majority opinion, issued January 8, 2019, the Supreme Court unanimously held that the Federal Arbitration Act requires courts to respect valid arbitration clauses and does not empower courts to [...]

On 26 September 2018, the Supreme Court of California granted a petition to review a case to resolve the question: "Can private parties contractually agree to legal service of process by methods not expressly authorized [...]

After almost ten years of drafting, the Rules on the Efficient Conduct of Proceedings in International Arbitration (“the Prague Rules,” available for download HERE) were officially confirmed during a signing ceremony on December 14, [...]

In November 2018, the International Bar Association's Subcommittee on Investment Treaty Arbitration (IBA) released its report on investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS Report), available for download HERE. The ISDS Report reviews the contemporary critiques of the ISDS regime and [...]

Cybersecurity is a growing concern in the global marketplace. International arbitration practitioners share this concern in part  because international commercial arbitration is founded on the principle of confidentiality, and cybersecurity breaches threaten that assurance. [...]