ICCA News

The ICCA Programme Committee is pleased to announce the title of ICCA Congress 2018, “Evolution and Adaptation: The Future of International Arbitration.”

We have noticed that latest articles from our Governing Board members are one of the most popular items on this site. So we are pleased to bring you more! ICCA Governing Board members have kindly shared their latest works in full, giving you an outstanding selection for your late summer reading.

ICCA is pleased to announce that from 2016, court decisions appearing in the Yearbook Commercial Arbitration are uploaded regularly to the KluwerArbitration database before being published in the end of year print volume.

ICCA Executive Director Lise Bosman has opened the 2016 UCT arbitration course - a full class with students of 15 nationalities represented.

We were proud to see ICCA GB Member Justice Ellen Gracie Northfleet (First woman appointed to the Supreme Court in Brazil) carry the Olympic flag at the opening of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games over the weekend.

Justice Gracie was accompanied by:

Marta (Football), Sandra Pires Tavares (Beach volleyball), Oscar Schmidt (Basketball), Joaquim Cruz (Athletics), Rosa Celia Pimentel (Cardiologist and founder of the Pró-Criança hospital), Torben Grael (Sailing), Emanuel Rego (Beach volleyball).

The latest ICCA International Handbook on Commercial Arbitration reports on Bangladesh, Indonesia and New Zealand are now available to subscribers on KluwerArbitration.com.

We remind ICCA members that the 2016 ICCA Congress film footage is now available online exclusively to ICCA Members until 4 September. We invite members to take advantage of their membership benefits and to preview the Congress film footage at http://www.arbitration-icca.org/conferences-and-congresses/ICCA_2016_Congress_Mauritius.html.

Applications are now open for a three-month internship hosted by PCA-ICCA at the Peace Palace in The Hague, the Netherlands, commencing in September 2016.

ICCA and the Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Centre (CRCICA) hosted the first New York Convention Roadshow in Cairo, Egypt, on 21 May 2016. Arranged in cooperation with the National Centre for Judicial Studies, and at the initiative of CRCICA Director Mohamed Abdel Raouf, the event attracted some 56 senior Egyptian judges to the CRCICA Conference Centre. Interactive sessions focused on topical issues around application of the New York Convention. For a full report and photos, click here.

ICCA is pleased to announce that Edinburgh has been chosen to host the ICCA Congress in 2020.