Author Archive: Yarik Kryvoi
Professor Yarik Kryvoi, is the founder and co-editor of the CIS Arbitration Forum. He is the Senior Fellow in International Economic Law and Director of the Investment Treaty Forum at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL). He holds law degrees from UCL, Harvard, Moscow and St Petersburg. Before moving to academia, he practiced law with Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in London, Morgan Lewis & Bockius in Washington, D.C. and Baker & McKenzie in St Petersburg. He often acts as a Russian Law expert in litigation and arbitration proceedings in the United Kingdom and other jurisdictions.
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Since the annexation of Crimea in 2014, the Russian Federation has been increasingly targeted by economic and other sanctions. After the start of the full-scale war against Ukraine in 2022, Russia became the most sanctioned country in the world. Sanctions target politicians, businessmen, various organizations (both commercial and non-commercial), and entire sectors of the Russian […]
The Basel Winter Arbitration School will take place on 3-7 February 2025 at the Law Faculty of the University of Basel, Switzerland’s oldest university. The school will feature prominent arbitration practitioners and academics covering different types of public, private and hybrid arbitration, and will include speakers from international arbitration institutions headquartered in Switzerland and other countries. The school’s interactive six-day programme […]
The 2023 London Summer Arbitration School is inviting applications. It will bring together leading practitioners, academics and representatives of arbitral institutions. The school will take place on 26-30 June 2023 at the Bush House, Aldwych. It targets primarily young practitioners who want to know not only about commercial and investor-state arbitration but also more specialised […]
Basel Winter Arbitration School is inviting its faculty, participants and the public to attend the keynote lecture ‘Reviewing Arbitration: Contradiction in Terms or Necessary Virtue?’ of Professor August Reinisch. One of the main advantages of arbitration is its relative speed, resulting among others from the fact that it is a single instance form of dispute settlement […]
The Basel Winter Arbitration School will take place on 6-11 February 2022 at the Law Faculty of the University of Basel, Switzerland’s oldest university. CIS Arbitration Forum is the event’s media partner.online pharmacy https://www.3-dmed.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/jpg/levaquin.html no prescription drugstore The school will feature prominent arbitration practitioners and academics covering different types of public, private and hybrid arbitration topics, and will […]
On 25-26 May 2021, CIS Arbitration Forum conducted an online conference CIS-related Disputes: Treaties, Sanctions, Compliance and Enforcement. It brought together over 80 participants, including private practitioners, in-house lawyers and government officials. Here you can see a recording of the panel of the conference dealing with sanctions. It summarizes the most recent developments on […]
On 25-26 May 2021, CIS Arbitration Forum conducted an online conference CIS-related Disputes: Treaties, Sanctions, Compliance and Enforcement. It brought together over 80 participants, including private practitioners, in-house lawyers and government officials. This is a recording of the third panel of the conference, which examines enforcement of foreign judgments and arbitral awards in the CIS region. […]
On 25-26 May 2021, CIS Arbitration Forum conducted an online conference CIS-related Disputes: Treaties, Sanctions, Compliance and Enforcement. It brought together over 80 participants, including private practitioners, in-house lawyers and government officials. This is a recording of the first panel of the conference, which examines the opportunities and challenges for international dispute resolution of Soviet and […]
On 25-26 May 2021, CIS Arbitration Forum conducted an online conference CIS-related Disputes: Treaties, Sanctions, Compliance and Enforcement. It brought together over 80 participants, including private practitioners, in-house lawyers and government officials. We present a recording of the first panel of the conference, which summarizes the most recent developments related to arbitration in selected jurisdictions. 0:13 […]
Vilnius University Law Faculty invites for the discussion and reflection on the current status of Investor-State Dispute Settlement in Europe and especially in its Eastern region, where most of the respondents are situated.online pharmacy https://www.childhealthonline.org/scripts/js/amoxil.html no prescription drugstore This online conference will take place on 27-28 May and cover a variety of hot topics ranging […]
Those unfamiliar with civil law procedure rules followed by English courts may find it difficult to understand how to argue issues related to foreign law. Should lawyers representing the parties explain their own understanding of foreign law? Are they supposed to invite experts to do that? Do experts need to be admitted to practice in […]
On 25-26 May 2021, CIS Arbitration Forum will bring together leading practitioners, academics and arbitrators to discuss some of the most challenging problems which lawyers face in disputes related to Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and other countries of the CIS region. Four panels will feature recognised experts presenting their views and answering questions from the audience. […]
Prof Yarik Kryvoi, the founder and co-editor of the CIS Arbitration Forum forum launched a new online course on International Investment Law and Dispute Resolution. This course covers the history and the rationale of protection of foreign direct investments, applicable law, the key principles of international investment law and investor-state dispute settlement. All classes include […]
В рамках Академического форума по урегулированию споров между инвесторами и государствами подготовлен Глоссарий терминов и понятий системы урегулирования споров между инвесторами и государствами на русском языке. Составители – Максим Усынин из Университета Копенгагена и Ярослав Кривой из Британского института международного и сравнительного права. Глоссарий подготовлен с целью оказания помощи процессу Рабочей группы III ЮНСИТРАЛ (Реформа […]
This joint event of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law and the Belarusian State University will focus on complexities of representing the interests of states in international proceedings, with a particular focus on investor-State disputes. Topics: What makes representing interests of States different compared to representing commercial entities? What are the challenges of […]
On 5 April 2019, the World Trade Organization published its Panel report on “Russia – Measures Concerning Traffic in Transit,” which reviewed for the first time the national security exception contained in Article XXI of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 1994 (GATT). In this case, Ukraine challenged the legality of Russian measures restricting […]
The Russian and CIS Arbitration Network (“RCAN”) invites you to its Summer Party, which will this year take place on 4 July 2018. This year the Summer Party will be hosted this year by Osborne Clarke and supported by ARLA, with CIS Arbitration Forum as its information partner You can find further details about the RCAN Summer Party […]
Trying to create a favourable investment climate, all CIS states have adopted investment protection laws which provide certain privileges to foreign investors. However, when it comes to ratification of international treaties in which states reflect consent to international arbitration of investment disputes, the situation is more nuanced. All CIS countries are parties to the basic international […]
The last few years have seen several significant developments in the area of investment arbitration disputes involving the CIS states and pertaining to noteworthy and sometimes intriguing jurisdictional and substantive law issues.online pharmacy https://www.childhealthonline.org/scripts/js/doxycycline.html no prescription drugstore Jones Day, together with the Russia and CIS Arbitration Network and the CIS Arbitration Forum, is pleased to […]
CIS Arbitration Forum authors and other experts from the region teamed up to produce the first comprehensive overview of commercial arbitration in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) region. The Law and Practice of International Arbitration in the CIS Region edited by Kaj Hober and Yarik Kryvoi provides a country-by-country analysis of regulation and practice […]
Арбитражный форум СНГ продолжает серию интервью с представителями крупных международных арбитражных организаций, занимающихся спорами, связанными с Россией и регионом СНГ. В этом месяце профессор Ярослав Кривой взял интервью у Мег Киннер, которая с 2008 года является генеральным секретарем Международного центра по урегулированию инвестиционных споров (МЦУИС) во Всемирном банке. Госпожа Киннер поделилась своими мыслями о том, […]
CIS Arbitration Forum continues its series of interviews with representatives of major international arbitration institutions working on disputes related to Russia and the CIS region. This month Professor Yarik Kryvoi interviewed Meg Kinnear, who since 2008 has been the Secretary-General of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) at the World Bank. Ms Kinnear shared her […]
Following the success of Russian Law Week 2014 in London and English Law Week 2015 in Moscow, the Law Society and the Bar Council of England and Wales, in partnership with the Federal Chamber of Lawyers of the Russian Federation, the Moscow Chamber of Advocates, the St Petersburg Chamber of Advocates, the British Russian Law […]
This arbitration concerns a dispute between İçkale İnşaat Limited Şirketi, a company incorporated under the laws of the Republic of Turkey, and Turkmenistan. The dispute was submitted by the Claimant to the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (“ICSID”) on the basis of the Agreement between the Republic of Turkey and Turkmenistan concerning the Reciprocal Promotion […]
CIS Arbitration Forum continues its series of interviews with representatives of major international arbitration institutions working on disputes related to Russia and the CIS region. This month we interviewed Andrea Carlevaris who serves as Secretary General of the ICC International Court of Arbitration and Director of Dispute Resolution Services of the ICC. Mr Carlevaris spoke […]
C5 is inviting to its 5th annual conference on International Dispute Resolution involving Russian and CIS Parties in London. The conference will address practical issues faced by in-house counsel and their external legal advisers involved in cross-border disputes. CIS Arbitration Forum is an information sponsor of the event. Top practitioners and representatives of major arbitration institutions will […]
The CEPMLP of the University of Dundee, the Scottish Arbitration Centre (SAC), the International Centre for Energy Arbitration (ICEA) and CMS Cameron McKenna LLP invite you to the Energy Arbitration Conference. The conference will take place on 29th October 2015 at the Scottish Arbitration Centre in Edinburgh, Scotland. online pharmacy https://www.icriindia.com/blog/wp-content/themes/twentyseventeen/inc/new/zovirax.html no prescription The Energy Charter Secretariat (ECS), […]
CIS Arbitration Forum is starting a series of interviews with representatives of major international arbitration institutions working on disputes related to Russia and the CIS region. We hope the readers will appreciate updates from major arbitration institutions and their efforts to improve services rendered to arbitration users from the region. The series starts with an […]
Here is a short summary of the most important points of the Yukos arbitration award which former shareholders are now trying to enforce in Belgium, France and other European countries. Diana Bentley of Lexis Nexis interviewed Yaraslau Kryvoi. What was the dispute about? The tribunal, the Permanent Court for Arbitration, constituted under UNCITRAL Rules and based in […]
Yaraslau Kryvoi speaks about arbitrability of sanctions, touching upon the effect of the Belarus, Ukraine and Russian sanctions regimes on arbitration at a conference organised by Kuala Lumpur Regional Arbitration Centre in May 2015.
Controversies have surrounded the purchase of French Mistral helicopter carriers by Russia since the very beginning. In 2010, after eight months of talks, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev approved the purchase of two ships of the Mistral class from France for €1.37 billion. The deal was concluded despite objections from some of France’s allies in NATO. […]
Russian and CIS businesses continue to use foreign law, predominantly English, to govern their contracts and for subsequent litigation and arbitration of commercial dispute abroad— whether it’s conditioned by the requirements of their foreign business partners or a strategic part of the businesses’ corporate structure. Mandatory norms, the complexity of laws in different jurisdictions and […]
Legal Insight magazine has published a Survey of the CIS legal services market in International Arbitration prepared jointly with the Russian Arbitration Association and CIS Arbitration Forum. The authors of the survey have indicated the main trends connected with the CIS arbitration market, in particular, the rapidly growing amount of CIS-related disputes and the connection of a […]
CIS Arbitration Forum is launching a Working Papers Series. The papers will feature research papers to encourage the exchange of ideas about arbitration and dispute resolution in the former Soviet Union countries. E-copies of the Working Papers will be available in the Social Sciences Research Network electronic library. Sergey Strembelev and Yaraslau Kryvoi authored the […]
CIS Arbitration Forum is continuously looking for part-time interns to help with preparing materials offering cutting-edge insights into developments in international arbitration and cross-border dispute resolution.online pharmacy https://www.mydentalplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/new/albuterol.html no prescription drugstore Interns will work (usually remotely) in close cooperation with editors in London and Moscow to produce posts for the Forum as well as update […]
International Centre for Dispute Resolution Young & International (ICDR Y&I) invites to its annual Seminar in Moscow on Thursday, September 26, 2013. The Seminar will be hosted by the Independent Arbitration Chamber. The program will take place at 33 Arbat Street, in the historic center of Moscow. Registration will open at 4:30 p.m., with the program running […]
1–2 июля в Москве пройдет интенсивный тренинг для практикующих юристов, цель которого – научить наиболее эффективно использовать возможности международного арбитража для разрешения коммерческих споров. Место проведения – зал «Чехов» гостиницы «Метрополь». Цель тренинга – на основании специально разработанного сценария научить наиболее эффективно использовать возможности международного арбитража для разрешения коммерческих споров. Организаторами тренинга выступают CIS Arbitration Forum, факультет права […]
CIS Arbitration Forum, Legal Success magazine and Arbitrations.ru are pleased to commence the first study of the Russian & CIS legal services market in International Arbitration. Depth, complexity and focus on Russia/CIS are the main distinctive features of the study. It will consist of 3 parts: law firms’ survey, legal departments’ survey and arbitrators’ survey. In […]
Legal Success magazine, CIS Arbitration Forum and Arbitrations.ru are pleased to commence the first study of the Russian & CIS legal services market in International Arbitration. Depth, complexity and focus on Russia/CIS are the main distinctive features of the study. It will consist of three parts: law firms’ survey, legal departments’ survey and arbitrators’ survey. In […]
A major conference on Russia- and CIS-related Dispute resolution is taking place in London on 27-28 in Sofitel Hotel. Disputes with Russian and CIS parties whether decided by arbitral tribunals or state courts – are notorious not only for the vast sizes of the claims but also for their complexity. The shortcomings of the regional […]
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