Editorial

Dr Cristina Alexe, FCIArb

The past summer months have seen plenty of action relevant to the international arbitration scene. Starting with early July when the ICC International Centre for ADR announced the renewed collaboration with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) that has reselected ICC to administer disputes related to the registration of new generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs), that appear at the end of Internet domain names, such as ".org" or ".net".

Paris was again at the forefront when a report on the opportunity of the EU lawmaker to include new provisions in the Brussels I Recast Regulation on international commercial arbitration, Towards an EU Law on International Commercial Arbitration? was released by a working group composed of French scholars chaired by Professors Mathias Audit and Sylvain Bollee (both Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne University), reminding us of the attempts made through the Heidelberg Report before Brussels I Recast was...