Wolfgang Alschner, Post-doctoral Researcher at both the World Trade Institute and the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, has performed an interesting empirical analysis focused on the impact of investment arbitration on treaty making.

Yesterday, the Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America, the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, the Texas Association of Business, and a number of other organizations filed a lawsuit over the U. S. Department of Labor’s regulations regarding fiduciary conflict of interest rules for retirement plans.

The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has ruled that it lacks jurisdiction to consider an appeal from a lower court’s interlocutory order compelling arbitration in a different forum than the movant requested.

The transcript of an interesting discussion between Professor Alan Scott Rau, Mark G. and Judy G. Yudof Chair in Law at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law and affiliated faculty member of the Kay Bailey Hutchison Center for Energy, Law, and Business, and Professor George Bermann, Jean Monnet Professor of EU Law, Walter Gellhorn Professor of Law, and Director of the Center for International Commercial and Investment Arbitration at Columbia University Law School, that was held last year at Pepperdine University School of Law’s “International Arbitration and the Courts,” symposium has been published.