In an interesting twist, a three-member arbitration panel will reportedly consider an appeal related to a 2005 arbitration agreement between Lance Armstrong and Dallas-based SCA Promotions, Inc.

The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has held that procedural challenges to the selection of an arbitrator in an international dispute must be determined by the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (“ICDR”).

John Y. Gotanda, Associate Dean for Faculty Research and Professor of Law at Villanova University School of Law, has published Consistently Inconsistent: The Need for Predictability in Awarding Costs and Fees in Investment Treaty Arbitrations, ICSID Review (Fall 2013) 28 (2): 420-437; Villanova Law/Public Policy Research Paper No. 2013-3039.

Today, a panel for the United States Third Circuit Court of Appeals held that business arbitrations conducted behind closed doors by members of Delaware’s Chancery Court are unconstitutional.