One of the paradoxes of modern time is the arbitrability of state contracts.  Brazil has taken one step forward to accept arbitration in public contracts in specific sectors.

By the time this is published there will be just over one week before the 2019 CIArb Annual Mediation Symposium takes place in central London.

The Singapore Convention on Mediation (United Nations Convention on International Settlement Agreements resulting from Mediation) was signed in Singapore on 7^th August 2019 (Convention).

The last article in this space – about the Brazilian tradition to resort to arbitration to solve its Public International Law disputes –  attracted great interest from readers.