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Politics Intrudes on US Arbitration Law?
Dear Readers: Apologies to those of you who enjoy these posts, for a relatively long hiatus. It has been a busy time these past several months. Today’s post is lengthy, warranting its organization into numbered paragraphs. A 2-1 divided panel decision of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on August 9, 2024, in an Investor-State award enforcement case implicating the New York Convention and the “arbitration exception” of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA), deserves serious attention because of what did not happen. Two judges of the Court rejected the dissenting judge’s contention that the…
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