ICCA News

Rio 2010 saw the launch of Young ICCA -- a grouping aimed at young arbitrationers world-wide, with the ambition to draw students and young practitioners from all corners of the globe into the practice of international arbitration.  During the annual meeting of YAP (Young Arb

At its annual meeting in Rio de Janeiro, the ICCA Council elected three new Vice Presidents and a new Secretary General.  The new Vice Presidents are Guillermo Agular-Alvarez, Teresa Cheng and Alexander Komarov. They replace Donald Donovan, Michael Hwang and Ivan Szasz. The

To mark the death of ICCA Advisory Member Dr. Ottoarndt Glossner on 27 April 2010, ICCA honours his life with this tribute by former colleague and ICCA Member Professor Karl-Heinz Böckstiegel:"With the death of  Dr.Dr. Ottoarndt Glossner on 27 April 2010, a persona

Prof. Jan Paulsson has been elected by the ICCA Council to serve as the next ICCA President.  He replaces Dr. Gerold Herrmann, who has served as President of ICCA since 2002 and was previously attached to UNCITRAL and the LCIA. (Prof. Paulsson's profile can be consulted

The published version of papers delivered at ICCA's 2008 Congress held in Dublin -- ICCA's Congress Series no. 14 -- is now available.  Copies can be obtained through Kluwer Law International, and content is available on-line to KluwerArbitration subscribers. The Tab

ICCA marks with great regret the loss of Advisory Member, Advocate Dr. Habil. Tadeusz Szurski, who died after a long illness on 16 February 2010 at the age of eighty-six. Tadeusz Szurski was regarded as a founding father of modern Polish arbitration. In a career that spanned sev

ICCA's Yearbook Commercial Arbitration for 2009 recently became available.  Copies can be obtained through Kluwer Law International, and content of the Yearbook for 2009 will shortly be available on-line to KluwerArbitration subscribers. Consolidated lists of all court d

ICCA mourns the loss of Advisory Member, Robert Briner, who died on 3 December 2009 at the age of seventy-nine.  In the course of a career that began in the tax and corporate practice of the Swiss firm Lenz and Staehelin, and then spanned several decades in the internationa

ICCA looks to the future: the ICCA website continues to feature links for young arbitration practitioners, see our Related Links page.

On 26 June 2009, the NAI Jong Oranje held a successful first annual Arbitration Dinner in Amsterdam for both Dutch arbitration practitioners (above and under 40) and international invitees. President of the Netherlands Arbitration Institute and ICCA Member Albert Jan van den Berg