Since 1990, mediation has resolved disputes worth some £195 billion in England and Wales, saving parties an estimated £5.9 billion along the way — figures later cited by the Lady Chief Justice in her 2025 BIICL Lecture...

Over the past weeks, there has been extensive discussion about the decision of the United States
not to confirm, for now, the automatic extension of the United States Mexico Canada Agreement,
known as the USMCA, for a new sixteen year period....

On June 12, 2026, Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) finalized its initial public offering (IPO), with equity securities listings on both the Nasdaq Global Select Market and Nasdaq Texas opening at $150.00 and peaking at $160.95. While the market capitalization milestone achieved by its principal shareholder is historically significant, the offering's corporate governance framework demands rigorous legal analysis...

In 1947, Philip C. Jessup recognized the “wide-spread international recognition and authority” of “private arbitration tribunals.” According to the Supreme Court’s ruling in 2022, private arbitration tribunals are not proper tribunals and may not access discovery under § 1782, creating tension in a more globalized world...

The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into legal practice is often framed as an inevitable evolution towards efficiency. In international arbitration, leading institutions, including the CIArb, SVAMC, SCC, AAA-ICDR, and VIAC, have responded to this disruption by issuing guidelines that seek to balance innovation with due process...

Arbitration’s strongest selling point has never been neutrality, expertise, or even confidentiality. It is simpler: if you win, the award will travel. And if it travels, you will get paid. The New York Convention sits at the center of that story, treated as the quiet guarantee behind the entire system...

Until recently, decisions such as LaPaglia v. Valve Corporation signalled that courts were
beginning to grapple with the role of artificial intelligence in arbitral decision-making. Yet,
they stopped short of interfering with the award itself...

The beginning of May 2026 has brought with it another significant judgment from the English Courts reaffirming the strength and autonomy of institutional arbitration frameworks...

The Supreme Court’s forthcoming decision in Jules v. Andre Balazs Properties will determine a fundamental question....