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2019 Hague Convention: On UK Accession and the Convention’s Interplay with International Arbitration

Kluwer Arbitration

On 27 June 2024, the United Kingdom (“UK”) ratified the Convention of 2 July 2019 on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Civil or Commercial Matters (“2019 Hague Convention” or “Convention”), with 1 July 2025 being the expected date of its entry into force in England and Wales.

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2023 Year in Review: Switzerland (Part I: Scope of Arbitration Clause, Capacity of Discernment, Res Iudicata)

Kluwer Arbitration

Part I focuses on the scope of arbitration clause and its validity in the context of a party’s (in)capacity of discernment, as well as on the new developments regarding res iudicata. Part II explores new case law on the enforcement of arbitral awards.

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Reaffirming Arbitration: The Brazilian Superior Court of Justice Decides on the Persistent Debate of Public Entities’ Participation in Arbitration

Kluwer Arbitration

Legal scholars and courts debated whether public entities needed explicit legislative authorization to arbitrate or whether the state’s capacity to contract inherently allowed for arbitration. decided by the STJ in 2019. Over time, case law evolved to allow state-owned enterprises to bring property-related claims to arbitration.

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Open government procurement drives innovation using the cloud

AWS Public Sector

As somebody who led a digital transformation program in the UK government and who now listens to government transformation leaders around the world, I joined the panel with leaders from the International Monetary Fund Capacity Development, the World Bank, and Brazil’s federal government. By 2019, the cloud supported SMEs that used £1.3

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New rule sets stage for banning risky technologies from government supply chains

Federal News Network

I can just say that we’re quite busy on the FASC and we’re also working to expand our capacity and truly have the resources we need to be able to take on what could become a pretty big workload one day. “I can’t provide a whole lot of comment on that right now,” DeRusha said. “I

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5G: The Transformation of Defense Networks

FedInsider

In July 2019, Lieutenant Colonel Pimentel returned to the Naval Postgraduate School after his selection for the Marine Corps Doctor of Philosophy Technical Program. In his current capacity, he serves as a trusted advisor to a multitude of clients in throughout the world. He graduated with a Ph.D. in Information Sciences in June 2022.

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OCP Feedback Survey: Closing the books on 2023 and looking towards 2030

Open Contracting Partnership

Capability Capability is one area where we did not quite achieve our strategy targets, and in the final strategy average, 53% of partners reported a very high increase in their capacity to do open contracting work, coming in under our 60% target.