Conference coverage

A GAR Live panel discussed the differences between generations and their work expectations in private practice, including in relation to ESG and artificial intelligence.

18 January 2024

Four GAR Live panellists discussed their experiences of living and working as women in the Middle East, how women are perceived in the region and how the arbitration community can best support them.

15 January 2024

A panel at the first ever in-person GAR Live Africa discussed the recent set-aside of an US$11 billion award against Nigeria, including the potential approach of tribunals to proportionality and the evolution of set-aside decisions on the issue.

11 January 2024

Columbia Law School’s George Bermann used a keynote lecture in Prague to call for a critical reappraisal of most-favoured nation clauses in investment treaties, arguing they do not achieve their objectives and should be eliminated.

19 December 2023

Sir Christopher Greenwood KC combined an eloquent analysis of the role of public international law in arbitration with entertaining stories from his own career in the 38th Freshfields Lecture.

11 December 2023

Held in a magnificent hall frescoed with “lawgivers” of the past, this year’s Freshfields Lecture featured contributions from Julian Lew KC, Norah Gallagher and Sylvia Noury KC as well as the main lecturer.

11 December 2023

In a future-facing event led by CMS, clients, partners and associates took part in a simulated emergency arbitration, putting a range of generative AI systems to the test.

07 December 2023

A panel at GAR Live Dubai discussed the successes and shortcomings of the United Arab Emirates’ arbitration law since it was enacted half a decade ago, and the amendments to it adopted earlier this year.

01 December 2023

Lucas Bastin KC told GAR Live Sydney that Australia could become the “stand out” jurisdiction for enforcement of awards against state assets – as its courts possess “execution powers that do not exist” in other countries with equivalent state immunity legislation.

28 November 2023

Gibson Dunn partner Robert Spano has argued that a refusal by an EU member state court to recognise and enforce an ICSID award on the basis of the Achmea decision may be a violation of the European Convention on Human Rights. Theo Tyrrell and Nika Madyoon of Gibson Dunn report.

24 November 2023