The Law of Nations Podcast

What can an arbitration practitioner learn from the approach to criminal evidence? What duties does an arbitrator have to investigate suspected criminal activity? And why have the criminal courts ignored interim measures not to extradite parties to investment treaty claims? Angeline Welsh asks renowned criminal practitioner Tim Owen QC for the answers to these questions.

Angeline Welsh speaks to Sir Bernard Eder and Sophie Lamb QC about the evolving role of national commercial courts and explores whether recent developments pose a threat to international arbitration.

Angeline Welsh speaks to Richard Hermer QC and Julianne Hughes-Jennett about their predictions for business and human rights disputes and the role arbitration should play

Angeline Welsh speaks to Sarah Grimmer and Joe Liu of HKIAC about the recent Queen Mary/White & Case arbitration survey asks what lessons the arbitration seat of London can learn from Hong Kong.

Family law disputes are increasingly moving out of courts and into arbitration. Angeline Welsh asks Suzanne Kingston of Withers LLP about this development.

What is the status of efforts to combat climate change post-the Paris Agreement, and is arbitration a help or a hindrance? Angeline Welsh asks environment specialist Kate Cook and arbitration specialist Wendy Miles QC.

Speaking alongside Prime Minister Theresa May of a post-Brexit UK/US trade agreement at the G20 summit in July, President Trump said:

“We have been working on a trade deal which will be a very, very big deal a very powerful deal, great for both countries and I think we will have that done very, very quickly.”

So what might that trade agreement look like? In our latest podcast, Angeline Welsh asks Patrick Pearsall, former Chief of Investment Arbitration at the US State Department, and Luis González García, Brexit expert and former Deputy General Counsel for International Trade Negotiations of the Government of Mexico.

In this episode, Stuart H. Newberger appears in conversation with Helen Mountfield QC to discuss his new book, The Forgotten Flight, with introductory remarks from Ben Emmerson QC.

On September 19, 1989, 170 people were killed when UTA Flight 772 was destroyed by a suitcase bomb planted by Libyan agents. Despite being one of the deadliest terror attacks in history, outside France it remained overshadowed by the Lockerbie bombing that had taken place ten months earlier. Both attacks were carried out at the instruction of Libya’s dictator Muammer Qaddafi, but while ‘Lockerbie’ became synonymous with international terrorism, UTA 772 became the ‘forgotten flight’. As a lawyer, Stuart H. Newberger represented the families of the seven Americans killed in the UTA 772 attack. Now he tells the story of the ‘forgotten flight’ for the first time.

In this episode, Michelle Butler interviews Judge James Crawford on arbitral appointments. The way in which arbitrators are appointed, and the qualities which make a good arbitrator, are hugely important issues in international dispute resolution.

This episode will consider the high profile phone hacking scandal, which shocked and fascinated the British public and brought down one of the UK's leading newspapers, The News of the World. This is well known – less well known is the role arbitration played in resolving many of the claims which followed. Angeline Welsh and Guy Vassall-Adams QC explore the unexpected overlap between arbitration and media and information law.