Transparency in Investment Arbitration: Entry into Force of the Mauritius Convention On 18 April 2017 Switzerland became the third UN Member State to ratify the 2015 United Nations Convention on Transparency in Treaty-Based Investor-State Arbitration (“The Mauritius Convention”). The Mauritius Convention reaffirmed the 2014 UNCITRAL Rules on Transparency in Treaty-based Investor-State Arbitration (UNCITRAL Rules), and […]
The Law Governing the Arbitration Agreement in LCIA Arbitrations: Where You Stand Depends on Where You Sit
The Law Governing the Arbitration Agreement in LCIA Arbitrations: Where You Stand Depends on Where You Sit New 2014 LCIA Rules Introduce Default Rule that the Law Applicable to an Arbitration Agreement is the Law of the Seat By Hussein Haeri The autonomy and separability of an arbitration clause from its underlying contract is a […]