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The IAC Eurasia Arbitration Week 2026 platformed a wide range of panel discussions, speeches, special discussions, and much more wherein esteemed legal professionals provided their remarkable insights. This article includes key takeaways from the conference.
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At IAC Eurasia Arbitration Week 2026, legal professionals reflected on diverse career paths in the legal profession, emphasising the importance of networking, mentorship, practical experience and continuous learning in building an international legal career.
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Thomas Krümmel concluded the second day of IAC Eurasia Arbitration Week 2026 by reflecting on the conference’s progress and looking ahead to IAC EAW27, while Zmarak Khan brought the three-day programme to a close by highlighting the importance of ADR education, experiential learning and international collaboration.
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Experts at Eurasian Arbitration Week 2026 discussed international arbitration, dispute resolution, arbitration reforms, legal certainty, and regional cooperation to strengthen cross-border dispute resolution along the Middle Corridor.
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During the IAC Eurasia Arbitration Week 2026, “Regional Update: ADR Trends in Central Asia & South Caucasus” focused on how jurisdictions across Central Asia and the South Caucasus are strengthening their arbitration ecosystems through legislative reform, institutional development, judicial support, and enhanced enforcement practices.
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In a student-oriented panel discussion at the IAC Eurasia Arbitration Week 2026, the panel title “The Role of Practical Programs in the Development of ADR Education” examined how experiential legal education, moot competitions, ADR clinics, and institutional collaborations are reshaping arbitration practice.
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In a student-oriented panel discussion at the IAC Eurasia Arbitration Week 2026, academics explored the future of ADR education, emphasizing the role of experiential learning, legal clinics, AI, behavioural science, and institutional collaboration in preparing globally competitive lawyers.
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How do soft law, modern arbitration legislation and supportive courts influence cross-border dispute resolution? A Day 3 panel at IAC Eurasia Arbitration Week 2026 examined the evolving legal and institutional framework shaping international arbitration across Eurasia.
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Leading arbitration practitioners at Eurasian Arbitration Week 2026 explored practical strategies for enforcing arbitral awards, discussing Kazakhstan’s evolving arbitration framework, the AIFC Court, sanctions, judicial predictability and the growing importance of enforcement planning in cross-border disputes.
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Blending legal principles with practical experience, empirical studies and humour, the debate titled “Procedural Efficiency in Arbitration: Myth, Mantra or Menace?” underscored the constant balancing exercise between due process, document production, witnesses, and state treatment versus efficiency, economy, and the search for justice.
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Corporate counsel and arbitration practitioners at IAC Eurasia Arbitration Week 2026 examined what businesses truly expect from arbitration, stressing predictability, commercial awareness, enforceability, effective contract drafting, mediation and stronger collaboration between in-house and external counsel.
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The session explored both the remarkable institutional developments taking place across Central Asia and the broader global movement towards modernising investment treaties through balanced treaty drafting, stronger procedural safeguards, and greater emphasis on dispute prevention.
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The panel examined the evolving role of artificial intelligence in arbitration, discussing its practical applications, ethical boundaries and the principles that should guide its responsible use.
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Prof. Loukas Mistelis traced the evolution of the Queen Mary International Arbitration Survey over the past two decades, highlighting arbitration’s continued dominance in cross-border disputes, Asia’s growing influence, user expectations, and the transformative role of artificial intelligence.
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Lawrence Teh highlighted the importance of institutional trust, judicial restraint, and cultural understanding in international arbitration, while encouraging Kazakhstan to build an arbitral identity rooted in its own strengths rather than replicating existing models.
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From what does the new Constitution represent to the Supreme Court’s efforts in the arbitration ecosystem, Justice Margarita Odintsova and Justice Aigul Kydyrbayeva deliver notable addresses at the IAC Eurasia Arbitration Week 2026.
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From representations and warranties disputes to fraud, earn-outs, mediation and investment arbitration, panellists at the International Arbitration Centre’s Eurasia Arbitration Week 2026 discussed why cross-border M&A disputes arise and how businesses can better structure transactions to prevent and resolve them.
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At the International Arbitration Centre Eurasia Arbitration Week 2026 in Astana, Kazakhstan, speakers examined the role of courts and arbitral institutions, the interaction between different legal traditions, settlement and mediation in arbitration, and the future development of arbitration in Eurasia.
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Delivering the keynote address at Eurasian Arbitration Week 2026, Gary Born examined the evolution of international arbitration from ancient civilisations to the modern legal order, arguing that arbitration has always been rooted in party autonomy, contractual freedom and the pursuit of peaceful dispute resolution.
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From Kazakhstan’s new Constitution reinforcing the rule of law to the AIFC Court’s year-on-year growth in cases, mediations and delegate numbers, the opening ceremony of EAW26 set the tone for a conference that has grown from a single online session in 2022 into one of Eurasia’s most significant gatherings for international arbitration practitioners, policymakers and academics.
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