Bibliographie sélective OHADA

It seems like a long time ago that there were only a handful of climate lawsuits. Since the first climate lawsuits were filed in the United States in 1990,² a myriad of litigation has emerged at the national, regional and global levels. According to the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, as of May 2021 the databases on climate litigation around the world contained 1,841 cases that were either in progress or had already been decided.³ This shows the exponential development of the phenomenon through which civil society organizations, public law legal entities and private individuals are

This introduction provides the reader with a general characterization of the 39 Mixed Arbitral Tribunals (MATs) created by the 1919-1923 peace treaties to address disputes between private persons and between private persons and states as a result of the First World War. Noting that the rich literature published on the MATs was followed by near-silence after 1945, it mentions the numerous questions that they still raise today, before explaining how the various contributions to the book edited by the authors address them.

Dans le contexte actuel d'échange automatique de renseignements en matière fiscale, quelles sont les perspectives de la médiation et de l'arbitrage comme modes de résolution des litiges relatifs aux services financiers - spécialement la gestion de fortune et le conseil en placement - que la place financière suisse offre à sa clientèle privée et institutionnelle suisse et étrangère? Cet article commence par un rapide tour d'horizon international de la situation. Il examine ensuite le développement de la médiation qui résultera de la mise en oeuvre de la loi sur les services financiers et s'achève par quelques réflexions sur l'arbitrage et les actions collectives dans ce domaine.

This Chapter aims to distill a consistent approach to arbitrators’ independence and impartiality from past decisions on disqualification requests. In a first part, the interpretation of the manifest lack requirement provided for in Article 57 icsid Convention is scrutinized. The definition of this threshold (i.e. the burden of proof imposed on the challenging party) is crucial, because it determines the effectiveness of the right to an independent and impartial decision-maker. The second part of the Chapter inquires how specific categories of alleged conflict are dealt with. It seeks to derive consistency and predictability from the outcome or reasoning of disqualification