Arman Sarvarian and Rudy Baker

About/Bio

Dr Arman Sarvarian is Lecturer in Law at the University of Surrey, specialising in public international law, particularly ethical standards for counsel appearing before international courts and tribunals. Dr Roozbeh (Rudy) B. Baker is Lecturer in Law at the University of Surrey, where he teaches courses on public law, international law, and multi-method research design.

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Arbitration between Croatia and Slovenia: Leaks, Wiretaps, Scandal (Part 3)

In our last post, we analysed Croatia’s denunciation of its arbitration with Slovenia emerging from the scandal of secret communications between the arbitrator of Slovenian nationality and the Slovenian agent. In this final post, we examine the ramifications of the scandal for the international judicial system: that is, the informal set of international courts and tribunals in…

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Arbitration between Croatia and Slovenia: Leaks, Wiretaps, Scandal (Part 2)

As we described in our first post of last week, the completion of the arbitration between Croatia and Slovenia has been thrown into doubt by the revelation of illicit contacts between the Slovenian arbitrator (‘Slovenia’s arbitrator’? Or ‘the arbitrator of Slovenian nationality’? More on this in our next post) and the Slovenian agent. On 24 July, Croatia…

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Arbitration between Croatia and Slovenia: Leaks, Wiretaps, Scandal

The Arbitration between Croatia and Slovenia, brokered by the European Commission, conducted under the auspices of the Permanent Court of Arbitration and concerning delimitation of the maritime and land boundary between the two States, has been ongoing over the past three years. By the Tribunal’s estimation, it has featured nearly 1,500 documentary exhibits and legal authorities and 250…

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