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Case of the Day: Aioi Nissay Dowa Insurance Co. v. ProSight Speciality Management Co.
The case of the day is Aioi Nissay Dowa Insurance Co. v. ProSight Specialty Management Co. (S.D.N.Y. 2012). ProSight was an aviation insurance company, and Aioi was its reinsurer. The reinsurance contracts had an arbitration clause requiring arbitration in New York. The parties had also made an agreement to “make good-faith efforts to limit the……
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Mediation and Arbitration Mechanism under the Mainland-Taiwan Bilateral Investment Agreement
Jie Huang is Associate Professor of Law and Director of the Foreign Affairs Department at the Shanghai Institute of Foreign Trade School of Law. On August 9, 2012, Mainland China and Taiwan concluded the Cross-Strait Bilateral Investment Protection and Promotion Agreement (hereinafter “BIA”) during the eighth Chen-Jiang Meeting (meeting between the Association for Relations across……
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Jie Huang Joins The IJA Brigade
Letters Blogatory warmly welcomes the newest member of the IJA Brigade, Jie Huang, associate professor of law and director of the Foreign Affairs Department at the Shanghai Institute of Foreign Trade’s School of Law. I’m pleased to publish her post on the new Cross-Strait Bilateral Investment Protection & Promotion Agreement between China and Taiwan, a……
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Case of the Day: Zeevi Holdings v. Republic of Bulgaria
We return today to Zeevi Holdings Ltd. v. Republic of Bulgaria, which we first considered on April 15, 2011, when the case was still in the District Court. Here was my summary of the facts: Zeevi, an Israeli firm, had a contract with an agency of the Bulgarian government (but not with Bulgaria itself) to……
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Another Front In the Lago Agrio Case
For the second time in a week, one of my posts has been overtaken by events: Investment Arbitration Reporter (subscription required) has reported that the tribunal canceled an upcoming hearing in a way that made it pretty clear that it had decided the merits of the jurisdictional issue in favor of the United States. I’ll……