Thursday, December 24, 2020

New Issue: Arbitration International

The latest issue of Arbitration International (Vol. 36, no. 4, December 2020) is out. Contents include:
  • Articles
    • Michel Menjucq & Laurent Gouiffès, The grapes of dispute resolution: arbitration and wine
    • Carlos Molina Esteban, Hybrid (institutional) arbitration clauses: party autonomy gone wild
    • Mel Andrew Schwing, Don’t rage against the machine: why AI may be the cure for the ‘moral hazard’ of party appointments
  • Case Notes
    • Martina Magnarelli & Andreas R Ziegler, Irreconcilable perspectives like in an Escher’s drawing? Extension of an arbitration agreement to a non-signatory state and attribution of state entities’ conduct: privity of contract in Swiss and investment arbitral tribunals’ case law
    • Soumyajit Saha & Smriti Shukla, Resurrecting the debate on ‘due process paranoia’ in Centrotrade: Paranoia or Judiciousness?
  • Recent Developments
    • Darius Chan & Claire Neoh, To boycott proceedings or not? Recourse against arbitral awards on jurisdictional grounds by different categories of respondents under the Model Law
    • Riddhi Dhananjay Joshi & Shashikala Gurpur, The Silent Spring of Human Rights in Investment Arbitration: Jurisprudence Constante through Case-Law Trajectory
    • Ibrahim Shehata, The extension of arbitration agreements to third parties through the lens of Egyptian courts
    • Chitransh Vijayvergia & Pavan Belmannu, Exploring the prospects of host-state counterclaims in corruption disputes
    • Kate Apostolova, Portigon v Spain: new frontiers for financial institutions in investor–state arbitration?