CIArb PolicyCast

CIArb's PolicyCast Series

Each week the CIArb Policy team discusses live issues affecting dispute resolution with eminent figures from within the profession and beyond. 


Episode 11: Careers in Arbitration – Now and in the Future

For this episode of the PolicyCast, Policy and Public Affairs Executive Ludvig Hambraeus sits down with international arbitrator and CIArb London Branch Chair Ben Giaretta C.Arb FCIArb of Fox Williams to discuss careers in arbitration and future challenges to the industry.


Episode 10: Adjudication in the 2020s – Challenges and Opportunities

Policy and Public Affairs Executive Ludvig Hambraeus meets with international lawyer and friend of the Institute Kim Franklin QC C.Arb FCIArb to talk about the advantages of adjudication, increasing diversity in the ADR industry, and settling disputes during a global pandemic.


Episode 9: Digitalisation and Disputes: Opportunities, Challenges and Best Practice

Policy and Public Affairs Officer Ludvig Hambraeus sits down with mediator extraordinaire and ODR pioneer Colin Rule to discuss bringing ADR into the 21st century, digitalising mediation, and coming into the legal industry from a non-legal background.


Episode 8: Third-Party Funding

Head of Policy Lewis Johnston ACIArb meets with Ruth Stackpool-Moore (Investment Manager) and Tom Glasgow (Chief Investment Officer, Asia) from Omni Bridgeway to explore the role of third-party funding in dispute resolution, and whether it is commonly misunderstood.


Episode 7: Mediation in the 2020s – Challenges & Opportunities

Policy and Public Affairs Officer Ludvig Hambraeus sits down with Singapore-based lawyer and mediation extraordinaire George Lim to engage in conversation about mediation as part the ADR-family, the unique challenges of transnational dispute resolution, and supporting the next generation of international legal professionals.


Episode 6: The Geopolitics of ISDS - Global Challenges, International Cooperation, and the Breakdown of Multilateralism

Policy and Public Affairs Officer, Ludvig Hambraeus, sits down with international lawyer, barrister, and arbitrator Mahnaz Malik of Twenty Essex, to talk about the geopolitical influence in modern arbitration, international joint efforts to lessen disputes and ADR as a key to multilateralism.


Episode 5: CIArb Policy and the value of membership

Head of Policy Lewis Johnston ACIArb and Director of Membership Camilla Godman FCIArb discuss how policy engagement enhances the value of membership – and how you can get involved.


Episode 4: Future-Proofing Arbitration: from Diversity to Digitization – what Challenges and Possibilities Lies Ahead?

Policy and External Affairs Officer Ludvig Hambraeus sits down with Anette Magnusson, Secretary General at the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce, to talk about expanding ADR into new areas, diversity and inclusion within dispute resolution, the ongoing pandemic, and more.


Episode 3: ADR in Politics – Priorities, global issues and the impact of the pandemic

Head of Policy Lewis Johnston and John Howell MP ACIArb explore how to get ADR on the political agenda – and whether Parliament is a good training ground for conflict resolution.


Episode 2: ADR and the Sea – The Legal and Logistical Challenges of Maritime Disputes in a post-COVID-19 World

Ludvig Hambraeus, Policy and External Affairs Officer meets with Karina Albers MCIArb to discuss how current crisis affects the world of maritime dispute resolution from both a political and a business perspective.


Episode 1: Sustainable Disputes – how do we flatten the ADR climate curve?

Head of Policy Lewis Johnston meets with Lucy Greenwood C.Arb to discuss how the profession can lower its environmental footprint.