ICCA News

Applications are now open for the new Permanent Court of Arbitration-ICCA internship programme at the Peace Palace in The Hague, The Netherlands. An initial internship is available from January 2013. Interns should at a minimum be law graduates or final year law students, and wil

ICCA Governing Board Member Neil Kaplan has been honoured with a Liber Amicorum. The volume is edited by Chiann Bao and Felix Lautenschlager and titled "Arbitrators’ Insights: Essays in Honour of Neil Kaplan" (Sweet & Maxwell, 2012). Contributors to the volume

ICCA Governing Board Member Judge Dominique Hascher will be appointed to the Bench of the French Supreme Judicial Court (Cour de cassation) on 27 November 2012. Judge Hascher previously served as Presiding Judge of the Court of Appeal and was appointed to ICCA's Governing Boa

ICCA's inaugural hard copy Newsletter will arrive on the desks of ICCA members in December 2012. We seek views, comments and suggestions from ICCA members about ICCA itself or about issues in the field of arbitration for publication in the Newsletter. "Letters to the Pre

With profound regret, ICCA announces that Professor Piet Sanders passed away on 27 September 2012. On the occasion of his hundredth birthday on 21 September 2012, ICCA honoured him for his unique contribution to the practice of international arbitration and to ICCA itself. Our co

Former ICCA Secretary General and the first ICSID Deputy Secretary General Antonio Parra has just published a substantial new text on the history of ICSID the institution and of the ICSID Convention. The 488 page book - entitled "The History of ICSID" - offers unique in

Full film footage of all sessions at the Singapore Congress (10-13 June 2012) has now been made available by ICCA on this site - free of charge. Please click on the film icon on this page to view footage, or go to the Singapore Congress page.

Mauritius will host its second biennial international arbitration conference on 10-11 December 2012. The conference -- on the theme "An African Seat for the 21st Century" -- will continue the Mauritius project to create a new base for international arbitration in the So

Fresh from ICCA’s Congress in Singapore, ICCA’s Judicial Committee travelled to neighbouring Malaysia on 16 June 2012 for a judges’ seminar on the New York Convention. Speaking in Putrajaya, ICCA Governing Board Members Michael Hwang, Teresa Cheng and Albert Jan

ICCA's 21st Congress in Singapore (10-13 June 2012) was characterized by controversial debate not seen at recent Congresses. Encouraged by ICCA President Jan Paulsson's opening remarks to be "iconoclastic and controversial", the tone of the Congress was set by a