International Commercial Arbitration in Romania: Can the New Changes Release...
Why is the evolution of international commercial arbitration important for Romania? First of all, Romania has a significant geostrategic position: it lies at the crossroads of three large international...
View ArticleAbout the Ostrich, the Micula Brothers and other European Fables
‘By putting its head in the sand, the ostrich can see no problems, and if it can’t see any problems, they don’t exist”[1] To what extent can legal systems differ? Can these differences be legitimate...
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Enforcement in Romania of Awards Set-Aside at their Seat
Adrian IordacheThe Question The question of enforcing arbitral awards which had been subject to set-aside proceedings at their seat is long-standing in academic debate1) For instance, Nadia Darwazeh,...
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Take-aways from the National Conference on Commercial and Arbitration Law in...
Radu N. Catană, Nataša Hadžimanović and Johannes LandbrechtOn 7-8 June 2019, the ninth (Romanian) National Conference on Commercial Law in Cluj-Napoca was organized by the Department for Company Law...
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Navigating Through Stormy Seas: The UK Supreme Court Hears the Micula Case
Ivaylo DimitrovIntroduction With less than a month to go before the latest EU-UK divorce date, the UK Supreme Court resumed its hearing in Micula et al. v Romania 2018/0177, relating to the enforcement...
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Kluwer Mediation Blog: december 2019 and January 2020 digest
Anna Howard“the money’s not about the money…The key to settlement lay not in the realm of calculation and rationality but in the more opaque social world of face, punishment, justice and emotion.”...
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Advocate General Szpunar in Micula: Achmea Irrelevant, but Commission...
According to Advocate General Maciej Szpunar, the Micula case is symbolic of the ‘conflictual relationship’ between EU law and international investment law. Indeed, the European Commission has...
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