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Practicing law in a time when information sharing technology is rapidly evolving poses significant challenges, especially with respect to an area of law that for the most part, lacks uniformity and remains fairly unpredictable—that is, evidentiary privilege in international arbitration. The recently decided case of Harleysville Ins. Co. v. Holding Funeral Home, Inc., highlights how evolving technology may inadvertently result in the waiver of attorney client privilege under some jurisdictions’ rules. For this reason, parties…

Canada has long been an arbitration-friendly jurisdiction and was the first state to adopt the 1985 UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration (“Model Law”). On March 22, 2017, the Canadian province of Ontario updated its international arbitration regime to adopt the 2006 amendments to the Model Law. The Ontario International Commercial Arbitration Act, 2017, SO 2017, c 2 (the “ICAA”) replaces the former Ontario International Commercial Arbitration Act, RSO 1990, c I.9 (the “Former…

The International Arbitration Association (IAA) at Penn Law will host the Contemporary Issues & Emerging Trends in International Arbitration Conference on March 27, 2017 between 9am-8pm. Grant Hanessian, chair of Baker McKenzie’s International Arbitration Group in North America will participate at the panel discussing the future of international arbitration in a Trump and Brexit Era and its impact on the other Seats with other legal and political developments. The event will also hold other four…

Recently, both the German legislator and the German Institution of Arbitration tasked working groups with a reform of the German arbitration law and the DIS Arbitration Rules. The last reforms in 1998 strived for unification with international standards. Now is the time to ask whether Germany should aim at further internationalization, or rather emphasize characteristics of German law that serve the users’ needs: time, costs and predictability. In 1998, Germany had, with some minor amendments,…