On January 11, 2018 – through the entry into force of the Government Decision no. 1/2018 – Arbitration is reintroduced as a way of settling disputes in national contracts (known as Fidic Red and Fidic Yellow), and this normative act removes the Dispute Settlement Committee. Also as a novelty, the arbitration will be settled in accordance with the Rules of the International Commercial Arbitration Court attached to the Chamber of Commerce ...

The protection of intellectual property rights under international investment law has already come under the scrutiny of arbitral tribunals, scholars and the wider civil society with the occasion of such high-profile disputes as Philip Morris and Eli Lilly. Nevertheless, it is only very recently that the first publicly known case in which the protection of intellectual property rights, specifically, trademarks and trademark licences, h...

The objective of this study is a brief critical and comparative analysis regarding some contrary dispositions contained in the Regulation for the organization and functioning of the Court of International Commercial Arbitration within the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Romania (further referred to as the Regulation), the Rules of Arbitration of the Arbitration Court (the Rules) and the project of the new Code of Civil Procedure (th...