Trade between the United States and India has grown quickly enough that the contracts underpinning it have started to outpace the legal thinking around them. Supply agreements, joint ventures and long-term commodity contracts are drafted across two legal cultures at once, and when they go wrong, the parties are often surprised to discover how much
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There is a peculiar assumption in cross-border dispute resolution that expertise must be narrow to be credible. Such a shipping dispute needs a maritime dispute arbitrator who has spent a career dealing with charterparties and bills of lading. A dispute over a stalled highway or a half-built refinery needs a construction dispute arbitrator fluent in FIDIC clauses and delay analysis. A
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When a multinational signs a contract with an Indian counterparty, the governing law clause rarely makes headlines. Yet it is often the single most consequential page in the entire agreement. For two decades, foreign investors have watched India’s courts wrestle with case backlogs running into the tens of millions, and the lesson has been absorbed
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