Arbitral Insights

Eminent legal figure and former UK Supreme Court Justice Lord Wilson joins host Gautam Bhattacharyya to discuss why he chose law as a career (as opposed to acting), his career mentors and inspirations, reflections on his time in practice and as a judge, and some of his standout cases, including while in the Supreme Court.

Masin Projects CEO Rohit Singhal joins host James Willn to share his perspectives as a delay, technical, and quantum expert in connection with construction disputes resolved via arbitration. The episode covers what duties a party who is appointed as an expert has to the tribunal, examples of where experts have performed well, gotten it wrong, plus key takeaways on how best to use experts within construction arbitrations.

After completing a landmark 50 years at Richards Butler/Reed Smith, former partner, now maritime law consultant and arbitrator, Lindsay East joins host Gautam Bhattacharyya to look back over his illustrious career (including some memorable cases), discuss the development and future of international arbitration, and share his thoughts on how to improve diversity, equality and inclusion in the legal profession.

To coincide with World Earth Day 2022, Vanessa Thieffry and Adam Hedley discuss carbon emissions – what they are, how they’re measured, and how they can be reduced in the context of arbitrations – and disputes arising out of the carbon market in the first of our Greener Arbitrations podcast miniseries.

Delaloa founding partner Pacôme Ziegler joins Clement Fouchard for a conversation on some of the hot topics in international arbitration in Portuguese-speaking Africa. The duo explore in particular Angola’s ratification of the ICSID Convention, followed by a discussion of the Romuva gas deposit in Mozambique with a focus on the latest developments, including the concession agreements, the insurgency which affected the project and future perspectives.

Gautam Bhattacharyya welcomes the former Chief Justice of Western Australia, The Hon. Wayne Martin AC QC, who discusses his career path and memorable mentors, and reflects on his time as a judge. The two discuss Wayne’s current role as an international arbitrator and explore what potential improvements could be made to the arbitration process to make it a more efficient one for all its users. 

Stockholm Chamber of Commerce Board Chair Robin Oldenstam discusses the path that led him to arbitration, his role at the SCC, and the future objectives of the SCC (including participation in the upcoming Swedish Arbitration Days) with our podcast host, global chair of Reed Smith’s international arbitration practice Peter Rosher. The duo then look toward the regions where they predict arbitration will see lots of movement in the next few years, before offering advice to up-and-coming counsel and arbitrators.

Newly appointed ICC Regional Director for Africa Diamana Diawara joins our hosts Clement Fouchard and Andrew Tetley to discuss the progress of existing ICC initiatives, including the ICC Africa Commission and the “Hold the Door Open” policy, and the appetite for and differences in arbitration across the continent, before looking ahead and exploring the future of dispute resolution mechanisms more widely in Africa.

Co-founder of ArbTech and independent arbitrator, Sophie Nappert, joins global chair of Reed Smith’s international arbitration practice, Peter Rosher, and digital media and technology expert, Sophie Goossens, for a discussion on international arbitration and the metaverse. The conversation explores the definitions of the metaverse and Web3, what disputes are likely to arise in and from both, how these disputes may differ from disputes as we know them, the dispute resolution mechanisms that could or should be applicable to these concepts, and lastly, whether arbitration proceedings could ever take place in the metaverse.

On the eve of Paris Arbitration Week’s (PAW’s) six-year anniversary, international arbitration partner and Treasurer of the PAW Organizing Committee Clément Fouchard welcomes President of the PAW Organizing Committee Yasmin Mohammad to discuss PAW’s founding principles, the success the annual week-long conference has seen to date, the role of its organizing committee, and what the aims are for PAW 2022 and beyond.