# International Arbitration
65 Va. J. Int’l L. Online 2 (2024) ♦ Online
The Bear in the Room: Addressing the Challenges that Sanctions Impose on Russian Parties in International Arbitration
International arbitration aims to embody flexibility, neutrality, and a consensual approach for expedited dispute resolution between parties. However, in the wake of extensive international sanctions imposed on Russia following the events in Ukraine beginning in February 2022, sanctioned Russian parties have faced a myriad of procedural difficulties during arbitration affecting their ability to retain their counsel of choice, make financial payments, travel to in-person arbitration proceedings, and even find an impartial arbitrator.
KAYLA AUZA
65 Va. J. Int’l L. 1 (2024) ♦ Article
Challenging and Enforcing International Arbitral Awards in U.S. Federal Courts: An Empirical Study
One of the primary reasons why transnational actors prefer international arbitration over international litigation is that they anticipate that those international arbitral awards not voluntarily complied with are highly enforceable in national courts…
CHRISTOPHER R. DRAHOZAL, DONALD EARL CHILDRESS III, JACK J. COE, JR & CATHERINE A. ROGERS
63 Va. J. Int’l L. 289 (2023) ♦ Note
A New Approach to Status Determination in International Arbitration? A Comparison of Larsen v. Hawaiian Kingdom and the Disputes Concerning Venezuela’s Representation before ICSID Tribunals
Before deciding cases submitted to them, international tribunals first need to determine the identity of the parties and their representatives. In international arbitration, this kind of status determination not only implicates core concepts of statehood and governance…
FRITZ KAINZ
61 Va. J. Int’l L. 161 (2021) ♦ Article
Arbitral Courts
In recent years, states from Delaware to Dubai have been establishing something in between courts and arbitration, what this Article calls “arbitral courts.” Arbitral courts mimic arbitration’s traditional features. They hire internationally well-regarded judges who…
PAMELA K. BOOKMAN
59 Va. J. Int’l L. 176 (2019) ♦ Article
Transparency in International Commercial Arbitration: Adopting a Balanced Approach
The United Nations Convention on Transparency in Treaty-based Investor-State Arbitration entered into force on October 18, 2017, and marks a step in the growing international effort to increase transparency in international arbitration. International arbitration is a…
MARY ZHAO
61 Va. J. Int’l L. 431 (2021) ♦ Article
The Substantive Value of Diversity in Investment Treaty Arbitration
Diversity in investment treaty arbitration (ITA), as in many other areas of law and beyond, presents an ongoing struggle. Commentators generally agree that a lack of diversity in the pool of arbitrators undermines the regime’s legitimacy. But views are more tentative…
RICHARD C. CHEN
60 Va. J. Int’l L. 225 (2020) ♦ Article
The New Legal Hubs: The Emergent Landscape of International Commercial Dispute Resolution
New legal hubs (NLHs) are “one-stop shops” for cross-border commercial dispute resolution, often found in financial centers, and promoted as an official policy by nondemocratic or hybrid (i.e., democratic and authoritarian) states. NLHs address the…
MATTHEW S. ERIE