SCC in the press
JP Infonet: SCC dispute resolution for publicly procured contracts – analysis
In October 2024, the SCC Arbitration Institute published a report comparing disputes arising from public procurement contracts resolved in Swedish courts with those handled by the SCC between 2013 and 2023. This article, authored by Madeleine Thörn, Deputy Secretary General at SCC, and Max Bodin, former intern at SCC, analyses the report’s key findings and explores the benefits of arbitration for public procurement disputes.
Analysis published at JP Infonet.
Please note that the article is in Swedish.
Dagens Juridik: The amount in dispute does not affect the willingness to settle
Article from the Swedish newspaper Dagens Juridik (Today’s Law), which conducted an interview with SCC Specialist Counsel Jake Lowther to discuss the willingness to settle in regard to the disputed amount.
Please note that the article is in Swedish.
Lexis Nexis: SCC publishes empirical report on settlement patterns in arbitration cases
Article from Lexis Nexis in regards to the SCC report titled ‘Settlements in cases administered under the SCC Rules’. This study not only sheds light on procedural efficiencies but also offers guidance to practitioners, users, and institutions seeking to promote early resolution of disputes.
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Bringing Efficiency Back into the Spotlight: Expedited Procedures
On 15 May 2025, the official launch of the Bulgarian translation of the SCC Arbitration Institute’s (SCC) Arbitration Rules 2023 took place in Sofia, Bulgaria. The event’s significance is underscored by the fact that this is the first time any international arbitral institution’s rules have been translated into the Bulgarian language.
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Evolving Mediation Practices at the SCC Arbitration Institute
Following an update to its Mediation Rules in 2023, the SCC Arbitration Institute (SCC) has revised its Mediation Rules again for the beginning of 2025. This article analyses the caseload developments as well as the new provisions governing mediations administered by the SCC.
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Survey Report on Nordic Arbitral Institutions, 2025: Mapping Nordic Arbitral Institutions
This report forms part of the Nordic Commercial Arbitration Forum, a bi-annual conference bringing together primarily arbitration practitioners from the region. First launched in March 2025 in Stockholm, the forum provides a platform for discussing developments in Nordic arbitration, fostering collaboration, and strengthening the region’s position on the global arbitration arena.
The report, based on a January 2025 survey of six Nordic arbitral institutions, aims to deepen understanding of arbitration practices in the region and raise awareness of its institutions, services, and procedures. It also aims to assist arbitration users in making informed decisions when choosing venues and rules.
Jus Mundi 2023 Arbitration Statistics Report
This Jus Mundi report offers a comparative analysis of the world’s leading arbitral institutions, the SCC included, tracking key trends across caseloads, international reach, tribunal appointments, procedural efficiency, and financial stakes.
Key Insights Include:
– Caseload Trends: Year-over-year changes in filing volumes across institutions
– Geographic Analysis: Party nationalities, preferred arbitral seats, and governing law selections
– Diversity Progress: Gender and regional representation in arbitrator appointments
– Efficiency Metrics: Average case durations, expedited procedure utilization, and emergency arbitrator deployments
– Financial Landscape: Median dispute values, high-stakes claims, and cost comparisons
– Public Sector Involvement: Patterns in state and state-owned enterprise participation
– Institutional Innovations: Rule revisions, policy initiatives, and transparency enhancements
– Institutional Perspectives – Direct insights from leading arbitration institutions, the SCC included.
Relieve the Swedish courts – move commercial disputes to arbitration
As processing times in Swedish courts continue to rise, SCC Secretary General Caroline Falconer shares in the Swedish newspaper Advokaten why SCC arbitration offers a timely and effective alternative for resolving commercial disputes. In her guest column, Falconer highlights how arbitration at the SCC can ease the burden on the courts while providing businesses with a flexible, cost-efficient, and confidential process – often delivering quicker outcomes than traditional litigation.
Read the key takeaways from her column and discover how parties can transfer ongoing disputes to SCC arbitration.
Kluwer Arbitration Blog interview with Caroline Falconer 2025
This interview offers a comprehensive overview of the SCC’s modern initiatives, including our focus on efficiency, diversity, and innovation in international arbitration. From the launch of the SCC Express and the AI Guide to upcoming rule revisions and enhanced digital tools, it highlights how the SCC remains at the forefront of arbitration trends.
Interview between Maria Fanou and Caroline Falconer, 2025
Dagens Juridik: Resolve procurement disputes faster through arbitration
Article from the Swedish newspaper Dagens Juridik (Today’s Law), which conducted an interview with Madeleine Thlörn, Deputy Secretary General at SCC. The article explores the findings from a recent report published by the SCC.
Please note that the article is in Swedish.
ICCA International Handbook on Commercial Arbitration, 2024
An introduction to arbitration in Sweden, SCC Arbitration Institute, and the Swedish Arbitration Act. Published by Kluwer Law International.
By Caroline Falconer, 2024
Kluwer Arbitration Blog post on SCC event on security for costs in international arbitration
This Kluwer Arbitration blog post gives insights into the SCC Breakfast discussion, 7 November 2024, on security for costs in international arbitration.
With Anna Joubin-Bret, Secretary of UNCITRAL, Faris Nasrallah, Head of Arbitration at Crescent Petroleum; Monique Sasson, Partner DeliSasson and arbitrator ARBITRA, Jake Lowther, SCC Specialist Counsel, and Crina Baltag, Stockholm University and SCC board member.
By Raoul J. Sievers, 2024
Insights from the first SCC Express Dispute Assesment
A short intorduction to the SCC Express Rules and the first SCC Express case. With SCC Express, disputes are resolved in 3 weeks and for a fixed fee. Perfect when the parties want to focus on the continued business relationship.
By Jan K. Schaefer et al, 2023
ICCA International Handbook on Commercial Arbitration, Swedish chapter
A short introduction to arbitration in Sweden, SCC Arbitration Institute and the Swedish Arbitration Act.
By Kristin Campbell Wilson, 2020
The SCC Platform
Article in Arbitration.ru, a journal by the Russian Arbitration Association, on the launch of the SCC Platform.
By Lise Alm, 2019
Introduction to Investor-State Arbitration at the SCC
A short introduction to investor-state arbitration at the SCC Arbitration Institute.
The chapter is part of International Comparative Legal Guides, Investor-State Arbitration 2020.
This chapter has been reproduced with permission from ICLG.
By James Hope, 2020
The Emergence of an International Arbitral Institution for the 21st century
The importance of international arbitral institutions through the lens of developments in Sweden.
Essay in Liber Amicorum in honour of SCC Chairman Prof. Dr. Kaj Hobér.
By Ulf Franke and Annette Magnusson, 2019
Review of Taylor St John’s The Rise of Investor-State Arbitration: Politics, Law, and Unintended Consequences
This review is part of issue 4, volume 20 of The Journal of World Investment & Trade.
By Annette Magnusson, 2019
Liber Amicorum in honour of Prof. A.S. Komarov
Including the article: East Meets West in Stockholm. Av Annette Magnusson, SCC Secretary General och Natalia Petrik, SCC Legal Counsel
Read the article The fundamentals of arbitration will not change, but the tools will
ARBITRATION.RU in interview with Annette Magnusson, Secretary General of the SCC.
In February 2019
Investor-State Arbitration before the SCC, 2019
Introduction to Investor-State Arbitration before the SCC Arbitration Institute.
This chapter has been reproduced with permission from ICLG.
By James Hope, a member of the SCC Board, 2019.
International Arbitration in Stockholm: Modern, Efficient ADR with Century-Old Roots
International Arbitration in Stockholm: Modern, Efficient ADR with Century-Old Roots
New York Dispute Resolution Lawyer, Fall 2018 | VOL. 11 | NO. 2.
By Anja Havedal Ipp, SCC Legal Counsel, 2018.
Expedited Arbitration at the SCC: One Year with the 2017 Rules
Article on the Kluwer Arbitration Blog | April 2, 2017.
By Anja Havedal Ipp, SCC Legal Counsel, 2017.
Bridging the Climate Change Policy Gap: The Role of International Law and Arbitration
A joint conference between the SCC, IBA, ICC, and PCA in Stockholm on 21 November 2016.
We explored whether international law could bridge the “policy gap” between the objectives and the outcomes of the international climate change agreements, and whether international arbitration could serve as an enforcement mechanism in the climate change context. Nearly one hundred participants attended the conference, and the list of speakers included climate scientists, economists, policy specialists, investors, and lawyers from around the world.
At the conference, SCC secretary general Annette Magnusson introduced the Stockholm Treaty Lab – an innovation prize that aims to bring about a new model treaty for the promotion of green investments. Through this competition, the SCC and its partners jointly seek to address the policy gap between the objectives of the international climate change agreements and the outcomes they envision. Annette: “If we want to make sure that every child in this world can do their homework by an electric light, without raising temperature of the entire planet, what investments are needed and how do we make them happen?”
Award set aside due to arbitrator's conflict of interest
The SCC submitted a statement in these proceedings administrered at the Swedish Supreme Court of Justice.
Martin Wallin has commented on the judgment.
Sweden and Swedish law in international arbitration
An initiative by Young Arbitrators Sweden, 2012
Only in Swedish
Highlights of the revised Stockholm arbitration rules, China Business Law Journal
Highlights of the revised Stockholm arbitration rules.
China Business Law Journal, Volume 8 | Issue 5.
By Anja Havedal Ipp, SCC Legal Counsel, 2017.
DG Trade Concept Paper Investment in TTIP and Beyond – The Path for Reform
Observations by the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (SCC).
Download the article Mål om klander av skiljedom i hovrätterna
Undersökningen, som genomförts av f.d. justitierådet Johan Munck och rådmannen Helga Hullmann, omfattar alla klandermål som har anhängiggjorts under perioden 1 januari, 2004 – 31 maj, 2014 i samtliga hovrätter.
Ladda ned artikeln (only in Swedish) Mauritius Convention and UNCITRAL Rules on Transparency in SCC cases
This brief note describes the application of the Mauritius Convention and the UNCITRAL Rules onTransparency in cases governed by the Arbitration Rules of the SCC Arbitration Institute (SCC Rules).
Download the article Arbitrability: Problematic Issues of the Legal Term
This Thesis is devoted to terminological analysis of the term “arbitrability” which constitutes an important part of specialized legal discourse focusing on arbitration law.
Download the article Appointment of arbitrators under the SCC Rules
By Celeste E. Salinas Quero. How are appointments made in practice? What are the criteria considered by the SCC Board when making appointments? Learn about the appointment procedure under the SCC Rules.
Download the article Oral presentation of evidence and the application of the parol evidence rule in international arbitration
By Erik Mårild.
Download the article Institutional Arbitration – SCC Rules (Chapter XII)
By Marie Öhrström. “Institutional Arbitration” (Schütze (ed.)) includes an article-by-article commentary of rules of arbitration of 14 arbitration institutions, including the SCC.
Download Chapter XII The SCC Experience of Gas Disputes: Perspectives from a Leading Arbitration Centre
By Annette Magnusson, SCC Secretary General Presented at the Second Annual Forum on Commercial & Legal Strategies for Successfully Negotiating Long Term Gas Supply Contracts on 13 June 2012
Download the article Waiving the Right to Arbitrate
By Bengt Åke Johnsson, Ola Nilsso. The article examines the approach of Swedish, English, French, German and Swiss law in determining when a party waives its right to arbitration by initiating court proceedings and offers a comparative analysis of the scope that waiver.
Download the article International Dispute Resolution – a Modern Success Story of Legal Integration
By Annette Magnusson, SCC Secretary General. Presented at the Second Annual Forum on Commercial & Legal Strategies for Successfully Negotiating Long Term Gas Supply Contracts on 13 June 2012
Download the article The standard of Independence and Impartiality for arbitrators in International Arbitration
By Helena Jung (Master’s thesis Faculty of Law, Uppsala University, Sweden with internship at the SCC spring 2008).
Download the article Arbitrators’ excess of mandate and procedural irregularities – A study based on challenged awards between 1999 and 2009
A examination of ten years of Swedish court practice shows that 10% of the challenge procedures resulted in the award being wholly or partially set aside.
Download the article Rise of arbitration in the financial sector: breaking with tradition (2015)
By Legal Counselor at Swedbank Silvia Devulder. Article on arbitration in the financial sector.
Download the article Choice of Arbitration Venue in Light of Sanctions against Russia
By Irina Moutaye och Elena Billebro. Article aims to examine some questions on the choice of traditional European arbitration venues (London, Paris, Stockholm, and Geneva) in light of the sanctions.
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