AbstractThis article, based on the keynote address at the AMINZ-ICCA International Arbitration Day held in Queenstown, New Zealand in April 2018, is a thought experiment. There

is now considerable friction in the international economic system. Let us imagine that it continues so that political capital is no longer available to defend economic [...]

AbstractPope Gregory the Great wrote hundreds of letters to all corners of the Roman Catholic world during his papacy AD590–604. They conveyed his wishes concerning the behaviour

of his flock, but many of them were also about disputes and his recommendation for their resolution. [...]

Abby Cohen Smutny**: The ITA’s Academic Council has an interesting and very useful project, which is called Preserving Perspectives. It is a project to interview leading

arbitrators regarding the development and evolution of international arbitration. [...]

AbstractThis essay brings to light—and expands upon—some of Mustill and Boyd’s observations on the remedy of damages for court proceedings wrongly brought. It provides

a concise chronological account of the English courts’ power to grant such a remedy, especially, in relation to the infringement of the right to avoid those court [...]

AbstractHong Kong has enacted a bill to amend its Arbitration Ordinance, in order to formalize financing arbitration and to make it clear that third-party funding (TPF) for

arbitration is not prohibited by the common law doctrines of maintenance and champerty. [...]

AbstractParty autonomy has always been regarded as one of the basic axioms on which the international arbitral process is built. In institutional arbitration, the respect for

the parties' autonomy is endangered by the autonomy of the arbitral institution. Allowing institutional autonomy to prevail in these circumstances leads to the “party [...]

AbstractThe article discusses the problem faced by the investors who succeeded in establishing the liability of the states for violating international investment treaties,

but failed to prove that they had suffered losses and, accordingly, recover any reparation for the internationally wrongful acts suffered at the hands of the states. [...]