The VIAC CAN Congress taking place on 28 February 2025 kicks off the celebrations of VIAC’s 50th anniversary. VIAC is celebrating this remarkable milestone with the VIAC Community Ambassador Network that gathers so many distinguished arbitration colleagues from across the CEE/SEE region. The Congress is a wonderful opportunity to discuss the shape of future arbitration.…

Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) 2024 is out—and Austria’s ranking is alarming. The CPI ranks 180 countries by perceived levels of public sector corruption, scoring them from 0 (highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean). Austria’s ranking at 25th place marks its worst result since the CPI’s inception—a dramatic decline from 20th last year and…

Before an elite and distinguished group of participants at the IMH Special Day on 28 January 2023, keynote speaker Bettina Knoetzl and a distinguished panel took a deep dive into Austria’s new Freedom of Information Act (IFG), examining whether it truly marks a paradigm shift. Austria is undergoing a transformative move from official secrecy to freedom…

Join KNOETZL’s mediation expert Natascha Tunkel to explore the topic “From Argument to Agreement Building Better Outcomes on Legal Practice“. She will be joined by Jean-Christophe Barth-Coullaré, Ricardo Loretti and Katia Martins Ramos to explore how mediation and negotiation techniques are changing legal practice and lead to superior dispute resolution. The panel is part of…

On 20 January 2025, KNOETZL, together with ITA hosted yet another successful ITA Roundtable at the UNCITRAL Working Group III, focusing on counterclaims in investment arbitration. As discussions on UNCITRAL paper A/CN.9/WG.III/WP.244 (‘Draft provisions on procedural and cross-cutting issues’) continue, the panel examined Draft Provision 10, which sets out the scope for respondents in ISDS…