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Featured news:

• IBA Counsel Ethics Task Force - International Arbitration Survey
  
  In 2008, the IBA Arbitration Committee formed the Counsel Ethics Task Force for the purpose of investigating the different and often contrasting ethical and cultural norms, standards and disciplinary rules that may apply to counsel in international arbitrations.
  
  Having considered as a result of its initial assessment that further investigation is required, the Counsel Ethics Task Force is seeking your input to broaden its perspective. Click here for more information and to take part in the survey.
  
  
• Updated IBA Rules on the Taking of Evidence in International Arbitration (2010)
  
  On 29 May 2010, the International Bar Association adopted the new IBA Rules on the Taking of Evidence in International Arbitration. The revised rules will apply to all arbitrations in which the parties agree to apply the IBA Rules after 29 May 2010, whether as part of new arbitration agreements or in determining the rules of procedure in a pending or future arbitration. Read more
   
• IBA Guidelines for Drafting International Arbitration Clauses
  
  Dear Arbitration Committee members,
  
  As Co-Chairs of the IBA's Arbitration Committee, we are pleased to submit to you, in draft form, the proposed new IBA Guidelines for Drafting International Arbitration Clauses. These Guidelines were developed by a Task Force appointed by the Arbitration Committee and composed of Paul Friedland (chair), Doak Bishop, Karim Hafez, Adriano Jucà, Carole Malinvaud, Sundaresh Menon, Jean-Claude Najar, William (Rusty) Park, Anne-Véronique Schlaepfer, Eduardo Silva Romero, Stephen E. Smith, Matthew Weiniger and Damien Nyer (Secretary). 
  
  Do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.
  
  Guido Tawil                           Judith Gill, QC 
  
   
• Report on the IBA Guidelines on Conflicts of Interest in
  International Arbitration 
  This report, published in the May 2010 edition of the IBA journal Dispute Resolution International, aims at summarising the case law referring to the Guidelines, the feedback received by arbitral institutions, and criticism expressed by legal commentators. Download both the report and the current (2004) Guidelines:
  
  • Report on the IBA Guidelines on Conflicts of Interest in International Arbitration 
  • Current (2004) Guidelines 

Featured publications:

• The May 2010 issue of Dispute Resolution International is now available to access online for all members of the IBA Dispute Resolution Section. 
• Arbitration Committee newsletter, March 2010 
• Due Process in International Arbitration Transcripts - February 2009 conference - available to all conference attendees 

Past 2010 Conferences:

• IBA SEERIL-Arbitration Conference: Resolving International Energy & Infrastructure Disputes, 23-25 June, Lagos, Nigeria
• 13th Annual IBA International Arbitration Day
  4-5 March 2010, London, England