ICC Dispute Resolution Bulletin 2025-1

Message from the President

Claudia Salomon

Welcome from the Editors in Chief

Sara Nadeau-Seguin, Rafael Rincón

In Memoriam: Calvin Hamilton, Dr. Alexander Bělohlávek, Alexander Khrapoutski, Felix Ntrakwah

Global Developments: USA, Costa Rica, the 2024 China-Venezuela BIT, Armenia, Latvia

Commentary

• French Courts’ Recent Approach to Violation of International Public Policy – Towards a More Balanced Control of Awards?
  Marianne Kecsmar
• The Waiver and Arbitration Exceptions to State Immunity – Recent English Decisions on the ICSID Convention and the State Immunity Act 1978
  Ruggero Chicco

ICC Young Arbitration and ADR Forum

9th ICC Global YAAF Conference

ICC Dispute Resolution Services Activities

• Acta Non Verba – Justice and Cultural Sensibility in International Dispute Resolution
• 7th Brazilian Arbitration Forum
• ICC Institute Training “Settlement of Disputes in International Arbitration – Party Expectations and Arbitrator Techniques”
• 19th ICC New York Conference on International Arbitration

Book reviews

• “Provisional and Emergency Measures in International Arbitration”, edited by J. Fouret
• “La réparation du dommage moral dans l’arbitrage international”, by J. Dalmasso
• “Arbitration in Mexico”, edited by G. Alvarez, C. Alvarado
• “Mediating Sovereign Debt Disputes”, by C. Sudborough