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Developing the Cairo centre - an interview with Ismail Selim
Premium article - September 15, 2017
After taking the helm at the Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration at the start of the year, Ismail Selim has told GAR how he is building on the award-winning achievements of his predecessors and seeking to raise the centre's profile in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia and for media and entertainment disputes. The Egyptian lawyer began a four-year term as director of the CRCICA, the oldest arbitration centre in the Middle East and Africa, on 1 January, after being unanimously...
The lifelong student
Premium article - May 19, 2017
Named this year's "best prepared and most responsive arbitrator" at the GAR Awards in Milan, Jean Kalicki tells GAR about the eternal learning role of the international arbitrator, how the next generation must work hard to flourish in a "not quite... Kardashian universe" and how investor-state arbitration is like a soul-searching adolescent. How did you get into the world of international arbitration and come to be an arbitrator? My original motivation for going to...
Blackaby looks back
Premium article - May 12, 2017
At an event in Houston, Nigel Blackaby, the Washington, DC-based head of international arbitration at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, reflected on his career in the field and the most rewarding moments of his professional life to date. In an interview with Ann Ryan Robertson of Locke Lord during a conference on energy arbitration organised by the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators' North American branch, Blackaby said his interest in such cases stems from the heady mix of complex legal problems...
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