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The Chanakya Centre for Alternative Dispute Resolution (CCADR) at CNLU, Patna is committed to fostering academic and practical engagement in arbitration, mediation, negotiation, and allied mechanisms of dispute resolution.
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Costs and Fees Allocation Within the Arbitral Award [Part-V]
In the fifth and final part of this series, Datuk Professor Sundra Rajoo examines the circumstances in which supervising courts across India, England, Singapore, and Australia will intervene in arbitral cost awards and the exceedingly high bar they set for doing so.
Costs and Fees Allocation Within the Arbitral Award [Part-IV]
In Part-4 of this series, Datuk Professor Sundra Rajoo identifies the key factors that arbitral tribunals weigh, from party conduct and settlement offers to technologyadoption and third-party funding and examines the procedural dimension of when and how cost decisions are made.
Costs and Fees Allocation Within the Arbitral Award [Part-III]
In Part-III of this series, Datuk Professor Sundra Rajoo examines how the ICC, SIAC, and LCIA have each developed distinct — yet converging — frameworks for cost allocation. He also analyses the soft-law instruments that guide tribunals beyond institutional rules, including the ICC Commission’s empirical report on 676 arbitral awards and the CIArb Costs Guidelines.
Costs and Fees Allocation Within the Arbitral Award [Part-II]
n Part-II of this series, Datuk Professor Sundra Rajoo unpacks the four universally accepted principles governing cost assessment reasonableness, and three dimensions of proportionality and then examines the philosophical fault lines that divide international arbitration practice.
Costs and Fees Allocation Within the Arbitral Award
In this first part of a five-part series, Datuk Professor Sundra Rajoo, Founding President of the Asian Institute of Alternate Dispute Resolution, examines what the term “costs” actually means in international arbitration law.
Can Violation of Public Policy Justify a Merits Review of Foreign Arbitral Awards?
This article has been authored by Surya Prakash and Prabhas Kumar.
BIT of A Problem: Revisiting India’s Investment Award Enforcement Regime
This article has been authored by Dhananjay Shukla, 4th year B.A.LL.B. (Hons.) student at GNLU, Gandhinagar and Priyanshu Ranjan, 4th year B.B.A.LL.B. (Hons.) student at GNLU, Gandhinagar.
Arbitrability of Debt Recovery Agreements – Need to change the paradigm in the Financial Sector
This article has been authored by Jayanti Dhingra, 4th Year B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) Student at O.P. Jindal Global University.
Confidentiality at Risk: Arbitration in the Age of Evolving Technology
This article has been authored by Ms Purvi, 1st Year B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) Student at Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Punjab.
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Call for Blogs, 2026 – CCADR Blog: Submissions on a Rolling Basis
The Chanakya Centre for Alternative Dispute Resolution (CCADR) invites original and unpublished blog submissions on Alternative Dispute Resolution. Submissions are accepted on a rolling basis.
PRESS RELEASE: CNLU, Patna successfully hosted the 4th National Mediation Competition, 2026 on 25th January, 2025 at the campus
Chanakya National Law University (CNLU), Patna successfully hosted the 4th National Mediation Competition, 2026 on 25th January, 2025 at the campus.
Live Blogging – 2nd CNLU National Mediation Competition, 2024
Day 2: Preliminary Round 2 & Quarter Final Round
Guest Lecture on “Careers in ADR” by CCADR, CNLU [Feb. 11, 2024 at 03:00- 4:00 PM]
The Chanakya Centre for Alternative Dispute Resolution (CCADR) of CNLU is organising an online guest lecture on ‘Careers in ADR’, scheduled to be held on February 11th, 2024.
Live Blogging – 1st CNLU National Mediation Competition, 2023
Greetings of the day! On behalf of the Chanakya Centre for Alternate Dispute Resolution (CCADR), we welcome you to the 1st Edition of CNLU National Mediation Competition, 2023 live blog. Greetings of the day! On behalf of the Chanakya Centre for Alternate Dispute Resolution (CCADR), we welcome you to the
1st CNLU National Mediation Competition, 2023: Press Release
The Chanakya Centre for Alternative Dispute Resolution, CNLU, Patna, organized its 1st National Mediation Competition in a hybrid manner, with Preliminary and Quarter-final Rounds held virtually on 21st – 22nd January 2023 and Semi-Final and Final Rounds held physically at the CNLU Campus on 11th February 2023. Updated on Feb
