Dana MacGrath on the New Generation of International Arbitrators We spoke with Dana MacGrath, of counsel to Sidley Austin’s International Arbitration and Commercial Litigation and Disputes practices, about changes in the dispute-resolution landscape and developing...
11 December, 2018 Read more
In a world where women outnumber men and where women are active in all business and legal fields, women remain under-represented in key positions in all fields. The under-representation is not a matter of lack...
6 December, 2018 Read more
ArbitralWomen (AW) and the Equal Representation in Arbitration Pledge (ERA Pledge) efforts have been having important effects on promoting women practitioners in dispute resolution. Arbitral institutions are publishing both general statistics about gender and other diversity criteria...
4 December, 2018 Read more
On 10 October 2018, Burford Capital launched The Equity Project. As described in Burford’s press release, The Equity Project is “a groundbreaking initiative designed to help close the gender gap in law by providing an...
11 October, 2018 Read more
The international construction legal community is notably diverse, with men and women from many jurisdictions and cultures practising construction law at a senior level. The same is true for engineers. Yet this diversity does not...
25 August, 2018 Read more
ArbitralWomen is pleased to announce the results of the elections of its incoming Board of Directors for the 2018-2020 Term, which includes nine new members. The incoming Board of Directors selected Dana MacGrath, counsel in...
31 July, 2018 Read more
Unrivalled change! A huge progress achieved on the ICC International Court of Arbitration. For the Court’s 2018-2021 term, the ICC World Council nominated on 21 June 2018 Court members with full gender parity and unparalleled...
25 June, 2018 Read more
New York, April 23, 2018 – The New York City Bar Association’s Arbitration Committee has released a report describing arbitrator appointment procedures of various arbitral institutions in commercial arbitrations. The Report “Arbitrator Appointment Procedures of...
24 April, 2018 Read more
Susanna Hoe and Derek Roebuck Finally, a book on the history of women in Malta has been written, and it is much more than a compendium of famous names. Theresa Vella Treasures of Malta ‘The...
16 March, 2018 Read more
Mirèze Philippe (above left), co-founder of ArbitralWomen with Louise Barrington, and Special Counsel at the Secretariat of the International Court of Arbitration, International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), Paris, France, has been named together with Lucy Greenwood (above right),...
19 February, 2018 Read more
The Board of Directors of ArbitralWomen, the international non-governmental organisation for the promotion of women in dispute resolution, met on 1 December 2017 in the wake of former President Rashda Rana’s resignation. Effective immediately, the...
6 December, 2017 Read more
ArbitralWomen launched an initiative in November 2015 aimed at offering corporate membership to be provided to all female lawyers in the dispute resolution groups. Initially offered only to law firms listed in the Global Arbitration...
14 November, 2017 Read more
Two years ago, GQUAL started as a global campaign for gender parity in international tribunals and monitoring bodies. The campaign was crafted as a response to the critical under-representation of women within these entities. GQUAL was launched on 17...
5 November, 2017 Read more
ArbitralWomen is delighted to count many members among the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC ). The International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) announced on 7...
31 July, 2017 Read more
Thanks to continued feedback from institutional partners and end users, our software team has been working diligently to develop some exciting new features. In the coming months you will see a focus on end user engagement and...
11 April, 2017 Read more
30 March 2017 – Dispute Resolution Data (DRD), an online data subscription service providing the first ever access to closed international arbitration and mediation process information, has been awarded the Global Arbitration Review (GAR) award...
11 April, 2017 Read more
ArbitralWomen has been partnering with the Global Pound Conference Series (the “GPC Series”) since June 2016. The GPC Series 2016-2017 was initiated by the International Mediation Institute (“IMI”). It is an unprecedented, ambitious, innovative and...
11 April, 2017 Read more
Law360, New York (April 5, 2017, 3:47 PM EDT) – Gender diversity took center stage nearly a year ago when stakeholders in international arbitration signed a pledge to increase the number of female appointed arbitrators,...
10 April, 2017 Read more
GESSEL Arbitration Wall is an arbitration mobile app, i.e. a computer program designed for mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. It is an easily accessible and user-friendly database of documents frequently used in arbitration, such as...
23 January, 2017 Read more
New York, NY – Oct. 21, 2016 – Published by CPR Pledge seeks to resolve under-representation of women in international arbitral tribunals The International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution (CPR) announced it has signed...
25 October, 2016 Read more
London – Oct. 18, 2016 – Published by Berwin Leighton Paisner Over the last 6 years BLP’s International Arbitration Group has conducted a number of surveys on arbitration user perceptions on various issues affecting the...
25 October, 2016 Read more
Hereafter is a message regarding the results of the IMI 2016 International Mediation & ADR Survey, which are now published on the IMI Portal. In total, 815 participants completed this census survey, from mediation users, mediators,...
20 October, 2016 Read more
We reported in Newsletter N° 18 that ArbitralWomen is delighted to be partnering with the Global Pound Conference Series (the “GPC Series”). This involves each organisation promoting the other on their respective websites. The GPC Series 2016-2017...
27 September, 2016 Read more
The ICC International Court of Arbitration was among the first organisations to endorse the Pledge before it was even launched on May 18, since it signed the Pledge on 8 May 2016. The ICC has...
13 July, 2016 Read more