Singapore's commercial court turns ten, and starts doing work that looks a lot like arbitration's job. Background The Singapore International Commercial Court held a conference marking its tenth anniversary in January 2025, drawing more than 420 delegates from fifteen jurisdictions. A decade in, the court's docket has moved well beyond the general cross-border commercial disputes it was originally designed to hear, into territory that overlaps increasingly with the traditiona

UNCTAD's World Investment Report 2025 shows FDI falling for a second straight year, down sharply in Europe and up in North America. What the split means.

Romania is leaving the Energy Charter Treaty — but Article 47's twenty-year sunset clause means the treaty's investment protections outlive the withdrawal itself. A look at why exiting an energy treaty is not the same as being free of it.

UNCITRAL WGIII produces a complete, dated, public drafting record going back a decade. Read as a corpus rather than as doctrine, it becomes measurable.

A stayed award, a transparency report and a caseload statistic. Each shows a gap between what investment arbitration is designed to do and what it observably does.

A PCA tribunal declined jurisdiction over Zeph Investments' USD 305 billion claim against Australia. What the award tells us about who qualifies as a foreign investor.