Season 5 Episode 8 - The Space Arbitration

Well rested from our holiday hiatus, we’re back to tackle some of the truly big issues. First out is investment treaty claims arising out of holocaust survivors’ seized property [TIME 09:03], followed by Rachael O’Grady talking about space arbitration [TIME 30:25]. After opening with the holocaust and space, we go small and end with a Happy Fun Time involving Saadia’s new favorite acronym: ESL, or English as a Second Language [TIME 01:01:03]. What are the challenges facing those of us who work in a non-native language - and what does Brian think of the others’ English?

Season 5 Episode 4 - The Tainted Memories

The fourth episode of the season is loaded with two interviews: Toby Landau QC talks about the fallacy of witness evidence in arbitration. Based on his 2010 Kaplan Lecture, he argues that the way we produce and examine witnesses has some inherent flaws [TIME 08:18]. We then interview academic and in-house counsel Cornel Marian about taxation in international (investment) arbitration, a topic on which he has just published a book [TIME 45:16]. The third and more casual segment is about English-centrism, prompted by a recent blog post [TIME 01:21:51].