Sat.Apr 13, 2024

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Arbitration Tech Toolbox: Is Generative AI Now the Biggest Threat to Remote Hearings?

Kluwer Arbitration

Most of you will be familiar with ChatGPT and some will even be familiar with Midjourney and Stable Diffusion, but the recent launch of another type of Generative AI service has flown under the radar in the wider media as of now. However, it poses some of the most important practical and conceptual questions as to how deepfake video AI technology might affect the practice of international arbitration, in particular in the context of remote hearings today and into the future.

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Columbia Arbitration Day 2024: “The New Era of International Arbitration: A User Guide”

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Columbia Arbitration Day (“CAD”) was held on 1 March 2024 at the Skyline Level of Columbia’s Faculty House. CAD is notable as an entirely student-organized event on the international arbitration calendar. The first panel, moderated by Professor Alejandro Garro (Columbia Law School), aimed to identify an effective toolkit for managing evidence in construction cases, which generally involve multiple technical issues, numerous technical expert reports, and thousands of documents.

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Recent Legal Provision Enabling Publics Notaries to Act as Arbitrators in Brazil

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In October 2023, the Law 14,711/2023 was sanctioned, aimed to establish new rules on foreclosures, seizures, mortgages, and transfers of properties to settle debts, by amending certain sections of Law 8,935/1994 (which regulates notary and registration services). Some argue that the inclusion of a legal provision authorizing public notaries to act as arbitrators had two objectives: to eliminate doubts regarding the possibility of them acting as arbitrators, and to popularize and democratize arbi