Kluwer Arbitration

AUGUST 9, 2024

On 7 June 2024, the Dutch Arbitration Association (“DAA”) held its annual conference (the Dutch Arbitration Day “DAD”). They noted that VR and AR can be costly, complex, and raise questions of confidentiality, reliability, and influence.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Learn “What’s Next” After the Election at the 2024 Fall Training Conference, Nov. 20-21 The 2024 Fall Training Conference – The 2025 Federal Market: What’s Next? Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) kickoff the Healthcare Day of our 2024 Fall Training Conference on November 21. Happy Veterans Day!

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Kluwer Arbitration

MAY 7, 2024

In February 2024, the Arbitration Committee of the International Bar Association (“IBA”) released a revised version of the IBA Guidelines on Conflicts of Interest in International Arbitration (the “2024 IBA Guidelines” or the “Revised Guidelines”). The 2024 IBA Guidelines appear to reflect this trend.

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Public Procurement Intl

OCTOBER 21, 2024

A number of webinars we have held at GW Law School, including a July 2024 series on emerging international best practices, confirmed that there are many parallels between these “green procurement” strategies. Contractor ¶ 60 (Thomson Reuters, 2024). Strategies In “Green Procurement,” 66 Gov.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

On August 5, 2024, the General Services Administration (GSA) took a step forward by publishing a final rule to “standardize and simplify the Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) clauses for economic price adjustments.” However, implementation of the final rule will be heavily influenced by opaque trainings and internal policy memos.

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Government Contracts Legal Forum

APRIL 11, 2024

On February 26, 2024, a U.S. Just days later, on March 5, 2024, House Chairman Comer and Ranking Member Raskin introduced the Federal AI Governance and Transparency Act. The House Committee on Oversight and Accountability has considered this bill and voted on a markup.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

JULY 18, 2024

Influence on Market Strategies: Sharing demand data with industry partners has empowered them to tailor their strategies more effectively to Federal market demands, focusing efforts on high-demand items. GSA is also expanding TDR as an option to additional SINs in August 2024. SIZ-6287 (2024). [2] For more details, click here.

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Kluwer Arbitration

JULY 12, 2024

The fifth edition of the Bucharest Arbitration Days (“BArD”) took place on 6 and 7 June 2024. Ziyaeva discussed the UK’s use of anti-suit injunctions to enforce arbitration agreements, highlighting the UK Supreme Court’s April 2024 decision in Unicredit v. The general consensus? Mission accomplished.

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Kluwer Arbitration

OCTOBER 25, 2024

The Singapore International Arbitration Centre (“SIAC”) hosted its Annual India Conferences in Mumbai and Delhi on 6 and 7 September 2024. The second panel explored the future of international arbitration and how the field will evolve in view of technological advancements, geopolitical influences, and procedural innovations in ADR.

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Kluwer Arbitration

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

Scope of Application Differently from traditional investment agreements, the stated purpose of the SIFA is not only to foster foreign direct investment (“FDI”) (Article 1), but also to do so in a manner that integrates environmental and labour standards, transparency, and corporate social responsibility.

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AWS Public Sector

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Transparency and scalability were crucial in providing donor insights and supported increasing involvement, such as attracting celebrities and brands. This approach optimized costs and provided full transparency for donors, which is crucial for maintaining trust and engagement.

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Kluwer Arbitration

APRIL 13, 2024

Columbia Arbitration Day (“CAD”) was held on 1 March 2024 at the Skyline Level of Columbia’s Faculty House. Sobota affirmed that a big concern about the use of AI is precisely “the black box effect”, i.e., the lack of transparency on the sources and operations of generative AI.

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Kluwer Arbitration

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

The ICC Court made the decision to remove DEG as a co-arbitrator, which was communicated to the parties by email on 18 January 2024. 68 of the Arbitration Act On 31 January 2024, Aiteo filed a challenge to all four partial awards under s. 68 Arbitration Act 1996 (the “ Arbitration Act “). 80 for an extension of time.

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AWS Public Sector

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

However, as HolonIQ reports in its 2024 Global Education Outlook , funding sources slowed across the board in 2023, dropping 59% from 2022 levels. The sector received huge investment from venture capital, private equity firms, and IPOs (initial public offerings) on the back of the rise in hybrid learning.

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Kluwer Arbitration

APRIL 1, 2024

The Arbitration Foundation of Southern Africa (AFSA) will be hosting the first Johannesburg Arbitration Week (JAW) at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg, South Africa, from 9 to 11 April 2024. Originally scheduled for March 2020, the event was, of necessity, postponed when COVID-19 swept away all before it.

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Government Contracts Legal Forum

APRIL 30, 2024

On April 22, 2024, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued a Final Rule significantly revising the Uniform Guidance for grants, cooperative agreements, and other federal financial assistance. Agencies must implement the Final Rule by October 1, 2024; however, agencies may apply it to federal awards as early as June 21, 2024.

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Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 14, 2023

The vision is to go beyond supporting “just” a transparency and reporting portal to have a digital ecosystem that integrates real-time damage assessments, budgets, project planning, procurement and delivery. The system will be scaled during 2024. While this is an ambitious plan, the need is compelling.

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Inter-American Development Bank

JANUARY 12, 2024

To comprehensively assess the efficacy of escape clauses, we have developed the Escape Clause Clarity Index (ECCI), which will be part of the upcoming study “Navigating Fiscal Flexibility: Assessing the Quality of Escape Clauses in Rule-Based Fiscal Frameworks” by Ulloa-Suarez, Valencia, and Guerra (2024).

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Kluwer Arbitration

MAY 14, 2024

Arbitration has several features that suit the resolution of climate change disputes: neutral forum, arbitrators with specialist expertise, procedural flexibility, confidentiality (though in tension with transparency), and ease of enforcement.

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AWS Public Sector

MARCH 14, 2024

The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Sustainability Breakfast Briefing on February 20, 2024, in Dublin, Ireland, featured a panel of sustainability experts from AWS customers and partners, as well as educational talks on important sustainability themes. This blog post provides a recap of the highlights from the sustainability briefing.

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FedScoop

APRIL 16, 2024

They also stressed the importance of transparency and continuous feedback and focused on the tangible benefits of eased workloads and enhanced efficiencies. This capability is particularly transformative for government agencies, where quickly retrieving and correlating information can influence policy-making and public service delivery.

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Kluwer Arbitration

JANUARY 28, 2024

2 nd Annual California International Arbitration Week, and Plans for 2024 In March 2023, California Arbitration (CalArb) and California Lawyers Association (CLA) hosted the 2 nd Annual California International Arbitration Week (CIAW) in Los Angeles. 2024 promises to be just as interesting. For more information visit the CalArb website.

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Public Contracting Institute

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

The fundamental risks are that AI must not be biased; it must be responsible, inclusive, accurate, transparent, and deployed to meet high standards. Join Tyler Evans , of Steptoe, on December 5, 2024 for AI in National Security & Defense Procurement. Algorithm – a precise list of steps to take, such as a computer program.

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Select GCR

JULY 16, 2024

The Roundtable Event On Wednesday, June 12, 2024, the Small Business Administration (SBA) hosted a pivotal roundtable during the 8(a) Conference in Anchorage, Alaska, addressing significant updates and upcoming changes affecting Alaska Native Corporations and other small businesses involved in federal contracting. simultaneously.

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Select GCR

JULY 16, 2024

The Roundtable Event On Wednesday, June 12, 2024, the Small Business Administration (SBA) hosted a pivotal roundtable during the 8(a) Conference in Anchorage, Alaska, addressing significant updates and upcoming changes affecting Alaska Native Corporations and other small businesses involved in federal contracting. simultaneously.

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Inter-American Development Bank

JULY 18, 2024

These topics were the focus of a three-day Regional Seminar on International Taxation, held in Brasilia on June 11-13, 2024, which marked a significant milestone in the work of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and its partners in helping Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) address critical tax policy challenges.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Second, the realignment provides an opportunity to increase transparency for customer agencies and industry partners seeking to do business with FAS. The new structure also can enhance transparency with regard to guidance impacting the MAS program. Third, the alignment provides an opportunity to improve data management.

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How to Crack a Nut

MARCH 26, 2024

Perhaps the best evidence of the complexity of the mushrooming sets of guidance is that the PPN itself includes in Annex A a reference to the January 2024 Guidance to civil servants on use of generative AI, which has been superseded by the Generative AI Framework for HMG, to which it also refers in Annex A. 57(8)(i)(ii) PCR2015 and sch.7

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Inter-American Development Bank

MAY 31, 2022

Thirty-one of these are Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries, and they are currently working to ensure that the voluntary political agreement translates into international conventions and domestic legislation so that the package can take effect in 2024 as announced recently by OECD in Davos. billion a year.

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GovCon & Trade

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

On January 29, the Biden administration announced several policy initiatives aimed at addressing pay transparency and equity, including a proposed rule issued by the Department of Defense (DOD), General Services Administration (GSA), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP).

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How to Crack a Nut

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

extensions and waivers In relation to covered safety-impacting or rights-impacting AI (as above), Section 5(a)(i) establishes the important principle that US Federal Government agencies have until 1 August 2024 to implement the minimum practices in Section 5(c), ‘or else stop using any AI that is not compliant with the minimum practices’.

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Kluwer Arbitration

JULY 22, 2024

The majority adopted a broad interpretation: “transparency, stability and the protection of the investor’s legitimate expectations play a central role in defining the FET standard” (para. 762, 806). He added that “a finding that a state has breached the MST will be rare and extraordinary” ( Id. ).

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Government Contracts Legal Forum

APRIL 11, 2024

On March 28, 2024, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released Memorandum M-24-10 , Advancing Governance, Innovation, and Risk Management for Agency Use of Artificial Intelligence (Memo), updating and implementing OMB’s November 2023 proposed memorandum of the same name.

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FedInsider

AUGUST 20, 2024

“Our processes are very transparent, which is a good thing,” Evans said, “but one of the concerns that I have occasionally is that some normal, small processing error that a county election official makes may be misconstrued and presented using disinformation as fraud. We need to invest in both people and our systems,” Palmer said.

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Government Contracts Legal Forum

AUGUST 16, 2023

Treasury also published a Fact Sheet that provides additional information on the proposed details and scope of the outbound investment prohibitions and notification requirements, which will likely not be finalized until 2024 sometime after Treasury has published draft regulations and gathered another round of public comments.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

OCTOBER 25, 2023

His proposed schedule also recommends beginning consideration of Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 appropriations as early as May to pass all 12 bills before August 2024. He viewed the federal procurement process as offering an opportunity to influence standards/frameworks for AI development/deployment.

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Kluwer Arbitration

MARCH 15, 2024

One of Germany’s most prestigious arbitration-related events, the “Petersberg Arbitration Days” ( Petersberger Schiedstage ) was held for the twentieth time on 23 and 24 February 2024. This post briefly recaps the discussions held during the event. What Can Arbitration Achieve in the Future? Last but not least, Dr.

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