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The Stockholm Treaty Lab Prize is organised together with HeroX, a crowdsourcing platform where thousands of innovators compete to solve different challenges. Registration and submissions are to be made through this platform. Here’s how to compete in this competition.
The SCC, together with the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce, Tehran Regional Arbitration Centre (TRAC) and International Chamber of Commerce Sweden (ICC Sweden) invites you to an international seminar about doing business in Iran. The seminar will take place on 13 September 2017 at the SCC premises in Stockholm.
The competition is moving forward with seven teams registered within two weeks after the registration was open. Who will be judging the submissions?
The SCC in cooperation with the Embassy of Sweden in Minsk and the Eastern European Dispute Resolution Forum is organizing an international seminar in Minsk on 21 September 2017. On the agenda is the innovations in the 2017 SCC Arbitration Rules.
Practitioners in international arbitration and mediation are welcomed to to take part in a survey under the auspices of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. The survey concerns use of Arb/Med/Arb in international commercial arbitration where the same person serves in all three stages of the Arb/Med/Arb process.
In a newly-published article in China Business Law Journal, SCC Legal Counsel Anja Håvedal-Ipp highlights the new provisions in the 2017 SCC Arbitration Rules.
Next week, starting in the evening of 15 June 2017 and ending on Saturday 17 June 2017, the International Association of Young Lawyers, AIJA, is holding its annual conference at the splendid Stockholm Waterfront Building. The conference offers in depth discussion on what happens after a final award and an exciting social program in the beautiful Swedish capital.
The Quiet Triumph: How Arbitration Changed the World will be shown in at least seven different cities as it continues its world tour in the next few months. See where the next screenings will be.
In a recently-published practice note, SCC Legal Counsel Anja Håvedal-Ipp analyzed emergency arbitrator proceedings at the SCC in 2015 – 2016.
Mr Sidklev is currently Head of Dispute Resolution practice at Roschier in Stockholm and will serve as the President of SAA for a two-year term.
The Stockholm Treaty Lab Prize is now open for registration. Enter the competition through the HeroX website.
Kirsten Teo-Delalay from Singapore was awarded Global Swede by the Government Offices of Sweden. She is a master student of International Commercial Arbitration Law (ICAL) at Stockholm University, and an intern at the SCC during the spring of 2017.
The world tour of The Quiet Triumph: How Arbitration Changed the World continues. Next stops are Beijing and Hong Kong.
On 12 May 2017, energy policy experts and state representatives gathered at the Brussels International Energy Charter Forum. On the agenda was how to unlock sustainable energy investments to fulfill the promises in the Paris Agreement and Sustainable Development Goals.
On 16 May 2017, around 70 guests attended the official launch of Gunnar Lagergren’s biography, Skiljedomens ädla konst – internationell domare för handel, fred och mänskliga rättigheter. SCC hosted the event and among the guests were Sweden-based legal experts, members of the Lagergren family as well as Jan Eliasson, the former Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations.
A page about The Quiet Triumph: How Arbitration Changed the World is now available on IMDb. Viewers can rate and review the movie.
Arbitrating competition law is a unique and challenging task. Investment treaty arbitration with competition law aspect often becomes procedurally complicated. These were among the key takeaways from the EU Competition Law and Arbitration Law Conference, organised by the SCC together with Club Español del Arbitraje (CEA).
One year ago today, SCC Secretary General Annette Magnusson and SCC Chairperson Kaj Hobér signed the Equal Representation in Arbitration Pledge. A lot has happened since.
How to make the most in an opening statement? Should there be more rules in arbitration, or should it remain flexible? Will summary procedure result in more efficiency, or will it create more problems? These were some of the questions discussed at the 2nd Annual GAR Live Stockholm on 27 April 2017.
The Stockholm Treaty Lab Prize is now included as one of the challenges on HeroX. The competition will be run through this crowdsourcing platform.
The Quiet Triumph: How Arbitration Changed the World has received remarkable attention in China, with showings under way in Beijing and Hong Kong. Chinese subtitle of the movie is now available.
The book, Skiljedomens ädla konst – internationell domare för handel, fred och mänskliga rättigheter is written by Anders Johnson and published by Ekerlids Förlag in cooperation with the SCC. SCC hosts the book launch at its premises on 16 May 2017.
SCC Secretary General Annette Magnusson and SCC Chairman Kaj Hobér will be at Columbia Law School in New York to show The Quiet Triumph: How Arbitration Changed the World.
On Friday, 31 March 2017, around 80 students from ten different universities across the globe gathered at SCC’s premises in Stockholm to participate in a seminar as part of the Stockholm Pre-Moot.
In a decision recently published on the Swedish Arbitration Portal, the Svea Court of Appeal upheld an arbitration award, rejecting allegations that it was clearly incompatible with Swedish ordre public.
In addition to subscribing to SCC newsletter, now it is also possible to subscribe to get notifications about events that the SCC is arranging or a part of. Keep updated about SCC’s work and initiatives as well as recent development in international arbitration.
At the end of April, the SCC will host GAR Live Stockholm and a conference on EU competition law at its premises. It represents a great opportunity to participate in debates on a variety of topics, network and have a great weekend in Stockholm.
The global energy architecture needs to build on stable and transparent frameworks to mobilise huge investment to enable the low-carbon energy transition. A whole-day seminar, hosted by the Energy Charter Treaty Secretariat, will debate this timely policy question.
At a seminar in Stockholm, Maastrict University professor Jans Eijsbouts, former associate general counsel of the U.S Environmental Protection Agency Robert Thomson and former Baker McKenzie partner Claes Cronstedt presented a paper that proposed new arbitration rules for business-related human rights disputes.
At the SWAN meeting on 8 March 2017, SCC Legal Counsel Anja Håvedal-Ipp was elected as the new board member, replacing the former SCC Legal Counsel Celeste Salinas Quero.
Last week, the official website of the Stockholm Treaty Lab was pre-launched. Registration will be open soon.
On March 8, more than 80 participants attended a morning seminar in Helsinki, jointly organized by the SCC and the Finland Arbitration Institute (FAI).
The SCC is currently hiring a legal counsel and a case administrator to join the Secretariat in Stockholm.
The Stockholm Treaty Lab Prize is an innovation contest and a part of the SCC’s work which aims to align international arbitration to a sustainable future. The Lab now collaborates with HeroX in running the competition in 2017.
2016 has proven to be another strong year for the SCC. In this year, the SCC administered 199 cases, which is the third highest caseload since the SCC was founded in 1917.
Recent trends show that the interplay between EU law and international arbitration has gained more importance. The SCC, together with the Club Español del Arbitraje (CEA), invites to a seminar in Stockholm to address these topics.
The Quiet Triumph: How Arbitration Changed the World was officially launched on 24 February in Stockholm. At the same time, the movie is now available for free streaming.
The International Bar Associations (IBA) undertakes a survey aiming to investigate why there are significantly fewer women in senior positions within the legal professions.
Every year the SCC, Stockholm University and Mannheimer Swartling jointly organize the Stockholm Pre-Moot, a collegial competition in which teams from various universities participate in preparation for the 24th Willem C. Vis Moot in Vienna.
On 9 March the SCC will hold a seminar in Shanghai on making arbitration more user-friendly, together with China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC) and Mannheimer Swartling.
On February 16, the SCC together with the Embassy of Sweden in Moscow held a seminar on the new features of the 2017 SCC Arbitration Rules which were launched in January 2017. The event took place at the Swedish Embassy in Moscow.
The new report prepared by legal counsel Celeste E. Salinas Quero describes, among others, the economic sectors involved, the states’ measures most frequently challenged by investors, the outcomes and costs of investment disputes under the SCC Rules.
In a just published blogpost at the Kluwer Arbitration Blog, SCC Legal Counsel Anja Håvedal-Ipp introduces the Stockholm Treaty Lab – how international law can promote green investment.
On 6 March, McDermott Will & Emery, the SCC and Goethe University Frankfurt am Main invite to an international conference in connection to the Frankfurt Investment Arbitration Moot Court (FIAM). The conference will focus on issues like strategic choices and practical steps when filing an investment claim.
One month ago, on 1 January 2017, the new SCC Rules entered in to force. The SCC will during 2017 arrange and participate in a number of events and seminars all over the world for presenting the new rules. The first seminar will be held in Malmö.
SCC legal counsel Natalia Petrik has recently participated as a panelist at two annual events in London dedicated to Russia/CIS disputes.
New SCC Rules and the Stockholm Treaty Lab Prize. Two examples of what lies ahead as SCC moves forward into its second century.
In connection with the SCC’s Centennial celebrations, ArbitralWomen, SWAN and Roschier jointly organized a panel discussion on the topic unconscious bias.
The book on how arbitration made a difference was officially released during the centennial symposium. "Arbitration for peace" places arbitration in a wider historical context, thereby making the subject accessible beyond the narrow circle of specialists without losing its legal relevance. The idea and concept of the book was initiated by the SCC, and it is published by Wolters Kluwer.
On the second day of the SCC Centennial celebration, a symposium and book launch was held on the topic “Arbitrating for Peace”. A distinguished panel of experts addressed the role of international arbitration in the peaceful resolution of international disputes.
The SCC has published a report from the conference “Bridging the Climate Change Policy Gap: The Role of International Law and Arbitration”, organized jointly by the SCC, the International Bar Association, the International Chamber of Commerce and the Permanent Court of Arbitration.
The Swedish Minister of Justice Mr. Morgan Johansson and the Mayor of Stockholm, Ms. Karin Wanngård spoke at the gala dinner following the film premiere on the first day of the SCC Centennial on Thursday 19 January. See the photos from the evening below.
The documentary film ”The Quiet Triumph: How Arbitration Changed the World” premiered last week, during the celebration of the SCC Centennial. Nearly 700 guests from around the world gathered at Stockholm’s Rigoletto theatre for the event.
A recently published SCC Practice Note reviews decisions on challenges to arbitrators made by the SCC Board during 2013-2015.
This is the SCC’s 100th year of dispute resolution. The celebration kicks of the 19 January with a film premiere and a grand gala dinner. The 20 January, a half-day symposium will highlight the close relationship between arbitration and peace.
Kareem Sallam and Gina Shuanghui Wu are two of the students admitted to this year’s Master Programme in Investment Treaty Arbitration in Uppsala, Sweden. Here they talk about how it is to study the programme and about their interest in arbitration.
New SCC Arbitration Rules and new SCC Rules for Expedited Arbitrations enters into force 1 January 2017. The new sets of rules include a number of noteworthy revisions and innovations.