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Evolution of Kosovo’s Investment Arbitration Law: Defining the Foreign Investor and the State’s Role in Arbitration

Kluwer Arbitration

Notably, it broadens the definition of foreign investors while removing the principle of dual nationality, eliminates open consent to arbitration, and grants Kosovo the right to seek compensation for damages caused by investors.

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2025 PAW: Navigating the Path to Arbitration Success: the DIY Arbitration Toolkit from Young ITA and Wolters Kluwer

Kluwer Arbitration

Critically Assessing the Definitions of Success and Achievement A central theme of the discussion was how each of the diverse speakers aims to define and achieve success in arbitration. She encouraged participants to identify several mentors of varying seniority to serve as a board of directors for ones career.

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Telling the Truth Comes at a Cost for Indian Journalists and Human Rights Defenders – Could a Whistleblowing Framework Help?

Whistleblower Network News

At the Constitutional and Unity Conference in Bangalore in February, participants in a closed-door session on whistleblowing emphasized the need to incorporate human rights defenders and journalists, among other groups, into whistleblower-organizing efforts and a comprehensive whistleblower protection law.

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Arbitration With Public Entities in Brazil: Must Regulatory Agencies Participate?

Kluwer Arbitration

The STJ decision ruled not only on the possibility – and necessity – of a regulatory agency participating in arbitration proceedings between a concessionary and the relevant state entity but also on the limits of extending the effects of an arbitral award over a non-participating third party.

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Updating the UNCITRAL Model Procurement Law for “Green Procurement”

Public Procurement Intl

Article 8, for example, warns the procuring agency, “when first soliciting the participation of. contractors in the procurement proceedings, shall declare whether the participation of suppliers or contractors in the procurement proceedings is limited,” and any “such declaration may not later be altered.”

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WNN Exclusive Series: Whistleblowers Are at the Front Lines of India’s Defense of Democracy

Whistleblower Network News

The workshop on whistleblowing was facilitated by activist Nikhil Dey , who founded Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS) and was attended by around 50 activists, academics, journalists, policymakers, and anti-corruption practitioners. One primary goal of the workshop was to expand the definition of whistleblowing.

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The Implications of Koch v. Canada for Emissions Trading Schemes

Kluwer Arbitration

KS&T was a market participant in OCTP with tracking accounts for emission allowances in Ontario and California. Relying on this definition, the Claimants argued that KS&T’s emission allowances constituted “property” and therefore qualified as an investment under NAFTA. The Koch v. Emission Allowances as “Property”?