“Intellectual Whiplash”: One Day, Two International Cases, And Two Different Results At The U.S. Supreme Court
On December 2, 2013, the case of BG Group v. Argentina was
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University of Missouri Call for Proposals: “Judicial Education and the Art of Judging: From Myth to Methodology”
/in /by Charles KotubyThe University of Missouri is issuing a call for proposals for an upcoming works-in-progress conference as well as a call for papers for a student writing competition. Both of these calls are affiliated with a symposium that is being convened at the University of Missouri’s Center for the Study of Dispute Resolution on Friday, October 10, […]
TDM 1 (2014) – Reform of Investor-State Dispute Settlement: In Search of a Roadmap
/in /by Charles KotubyEdited by Jean E. Kalicki and Anna Joubin-Bret, this TDM special issue has close to 70 papers making it the largest TDM Special Issue to date. The interest in this topic, and the breadth of proposals offered by our contributors, demonstrates both the importance of holding this dialogue and the creativity of astute users and […]
Once More Unto the Breach of Extraterritorial Discovery under Section 1782
/in /by Charles KotubyWe’ve discussed on this site in the past the various nuances and pervasive disagreements among the U.S. federal courts regarding the scope of discovery in aid of foreign tribunals under 28 U.S.C. § 1782. The longest-running dispute is whether that statute can be used in aid of arbitral tribunals, and the scholarship on this question […]
Symeonides on Choice of Law in American Courts in 2013
/in /by Charles KotubyDean Symeon C. Symeonides (Willamette University – College of Law) has posted Choice of Law in the American Courts in 2013: Twenty-Seventh Annual Survey on
2014 ASIL Private International Law Paper Prize
/in /by Charles KotubyThe American Society of International Law is currently accepting submissions for this year’s Private International Law prize. The prize is given annually for the best text on private international law written by a young scholar. Essays, articles, and books are welcome, and can address any topic of private international law, can be of any length, […]
TDM 4 (2013) – Ten years of Transnational Dispute Management
/in /by Charles KotubyTDM has published its special anniversary issue. According to the Editorial by Mark Kantor, and especially relevant to readers of this site, “the TDM community has not limited itself to investment treaty disputes. Instead, we have promoted discussion of international commercial arbitration, litigation over international issues in national courts, mediation of cross-border disputes, administrative law […]
International Arbitration and the U.S. Federal Courts: The “Pro-Arbitration Campaign” and the UNCITRAL Rules
/1 Comment/in /by Charles KotubyIn the United States at least, judicial decisions deferring competence to arbitrators seem to be on the rise—if not in number, at least in profile. International Arbitration is no exception. Last week, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that both the 1976 and 2010 versions of the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules […]
TDM Special Issue: “Reform of Investor-State Dispute Settlement: In Search of A Roadmap.”
/in /by Charles KotubyInvestor-State Arbitration has become a salient feature of international dispute settlement, but its continued vitality is not beyond reproach. I myself have waded into the debate with an article published this month in the
Transnational Dispute Management 3 (2013) – Corruption and Arbitration
/in /by Charles KotubyThe latest issue of TDM is