High-level workshop on the legal consequences of corruption and money laundering in international arbitration

Over 80 arbitrators, lawyers and experts from around the world gathered at the University of Basel on 10 January 2020 to tackle the thorny issues of corruption and money laundering in international arbitration.

Corruption and money laundering affecting an underlying dispute are a considerable challenge for arbitrators and parties in investment and commercial arbitration. If corruption and/or money laundering is established, arbitrators need to decide about the legal consequences for the parties’ claims.

Basel Institute newsletter - Taking the good things of 2020 into the New Year

Monica Guy

Senior Specialist, Communications and External Relations
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In this short update, Managing Director Gretta Fenner sums up activities and achievements over the last two months and looks forward into 2021.

The newsletter features our latest news, blogs, quick guides and other publications. We take this chance to welcome two new staff members to the team.

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Basel Institute newsletter - October 2020

Monica Guy

Senior Specialist, Communications and External Relations
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In this short update, Managing Director Gretta Fenner sums up our activities and achievements over the last two months. Keywords: innovation and collaboration.

The newsletter features our latest news, blogs, quick guides and other publications, as well as joint articles with friends of the Basel Institute. We take this chance to welcome two new staff members to the team.

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Basel Institute newsletter - July 2020

Monica Guy

Senior Specialist, Communications and External Relations
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In this short update, Managing Director Gretta Fenner gives a sense of how we and our partners around the world are adapting to a "new normal".

The newsletter features our latest news, blogs, quick guides and other publications, as well as joint articles with friends of the Basel Institute. We take this chance to welcome two new staff members to the team.

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Basel Institute newsletter - February 2020

Monica Guy

Senior Specialist, Communications and External Relations
+41 61 205 55 12
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In this April update, Managing Director Gretta Fenner gives a sense of how we are adapting in these early days of the coronavirus pandemic, with the generous support of our partners and donors, and our feelings for the future.

The newsletter also features our latest news, blogs, quick guides and other publications. We take this chance to welcome five new staff members to the team.

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Basel Institute newsletter - April 2020

Monica Guy

Senior Specialist, Communications and External Relations
+41 61 205 55 12
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In this April update, Managing Director Gretta Fenner gives a sense of how we are adapting in these early days of the coronavirus pandemic, with the generous support of our partners and donors, and our feelings for the future.

The newsletter also features our latest news, blogs, quick guides and other publications. We take this chance to welcome five new staff members to the team.

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Basel Institute newsletter - December 2019

Monica Guy

Senior Specialist, Communications and External Relations
+41 61 205 55 12
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Not the usual newsletter – a personal message at the end of 2019 from our Managing Director Gretta Fenner to all our friends and partners around the world. 

Read through for some recent highlights and thoughts on unity against corruption. It's the theme of December's Conference of the States Parties conference and a central tenet of our work.

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The "favourability" principle - UNCAC's plug adapter for enforcement of non-conviction-based confiscation requests

Opening remarks and a presentation of key concepts by Oscar Solórzano at the side event “Living up to the spirit of articles 43 and 46 UNCAC” during the eighth session of the Conference of the States Parties to the United Nations Convention against Corruption, Abu Dhabi, 16-20 December 2019.

Ladies and gentlemen, let me please welcome you to the side event “Living up to the spirit of articles 43 and 46 UNCAC”.