Season 5 Episode 7 - The Locked Down Holiday Special

Before taking some time off, we finish the season with a much-awaited interview with Kaj Hobér [TIME 14:40], conducted at the Swedish Law Day webinar. Then we sign off this extraordinary year by following longstanding tradition and discussing holiday gifts, both related to arbitration and… less so [TIME 46:10].

Happy Holidays to all, and special thanks to our sponsor IAReporter.

Among the potential gifts mentioned:

JOEL
Girl, Woman, Other

Ducks, Newburyport

Crossing to Safety

BRIAN
Blue Snowball USB Mic

Long Arm Swivel Clamp

The Last Waltz of the Law of Nations

SAADIA

The unruly notion of Abuse of Rights
Identity and Diversity on the International Bench

Is International Law International?

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].

Season 3 Episode 11 - Those Who Can’t Do, Teach (and those who can they also teach)

Back from a one-week hiatus, we take on two substantive topics: sovereign immunity (from enforcement) [TIME 14:39] and tribunals’ powers to reconsider decisions made during the course of the arbitration [TIME 40:41]. The final segment is HFT, in which we discuss the peculiarities of teaching international arbitration [TIME 58:35].

Mentioned in the episode:

Rishab Raheja

Joel’s IAR analyses of the TANESCO and Perenco cases.

Episode 16 - The Holiday Gifts

Happy holidays fellow arbitration nerds! This week's episode focuses on holiday gifts. If you're unlucky, you will soon be hit with a request for provisional measures, which is customary at this time of year. If so, you might enjoy our discussions about this topic, from both the commercial and treaty-based perspective. If not, we have other gifts for you - Happy Fun Time this week is a list of suggested holiday gifts.

Mentioned in the episode:

Nova Group v. Romania PO7 on Provisional Measures

Supreme Ambitions by David Lat

East-West Street by Philippe Sands

The New Yorker Book of Lawyer Cartoons

Is International Law International? by Anthea Roberts

LAWSUIT! Board game

The Political Economy of the Investment Treaty Regime by Jonathan Bonnitcha, Lauge N. Skovgaard Poulsen, and Michael Waibel

(And yes, to all private international law specialists - of course the Brussels regulation does not apply to arbitration-related matters, Brexit or no Brexit. The incorrect information was a test on your attention. You probably failed.)