Thursday, September 12, 2024 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM
John Buckley, will discuss Security for Costs in Investor-State Arbitration: The Investor’s Right to Pursue Claims Versus the State’s Right to Recover Legal Costs. This presentation will explore the evolution of ICSID Rules and jurisprudence on security for costs, the effect of third-party funding on the developing legal regime, and the balance to be struck between the risk to the State respondent of an unsatisfied cost award and the right of the investor claimant to submit its claim to the tribunal. It will also touch upon security for costs in international commercial arbitration.
Fellow member Jim Carter will lead a discussion on the recent Olympic Games and the Arbitration Issues that Arose from it. A report on activities of the alleged “slack-chinned, necktie-smooth, multi-passported supremos” of the “secretive, opaque and stinking-as-a-spoiled-oyster star chamber,” that “magisterial, back-scratchy mess” known as the Court of Arbitration for Sport at the Paris Olympics.