Introduction

When and why the arbitration proceedings should be kept confidential and when they should be transparent and available to the public? These issues are hotly debated by arbitration practitioners and scholars across the globe. This year, confidentiality was also one of the core issues in the 18th edition of Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot, often referred to as the Olympics of international trade law and arbitration. The Warsaw Conference on Confidentiality vs. Transparency in International Arbitration, which took place on 9 February 2011, gave an opportunity ...