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Arbitration weekly highlights—4 May 2023

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Published on: 04 May 2023

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Table of contents

International arbitration
France—arbitration agreement—principle of separability
USA—Texas—delegation of arbitrability
Canada—arbitration agreement—contractual interpretation
Investment treaty arbitration
ICSID—disqualification of arbitrator—rejected
Institutional and ad hoc arbitration
VIAC—caseload statistics for 2022
CAM-CCBC—casework report for 2022
FINRA—statistics—March 2023

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Article summary

This week's edition of Arbitration weekly highlights includes: coverage of arbitration-related decisions from France, the USA and Canada, and updates from the Vienna International Arbitral Centre (VIAC) and the Saudi Centre for Commercial Arbitration (SCCA). All this, and more, in our weekly highlights.

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