Ryan Manucha is a J.D. student at Harvard Law School, where he is associated with the Canada Program at Harvard’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. His writing on the topic has appeared in The Globe and Mail, Maclean’s and the Ottawa Citizen. He has worked in trade and economic research capacities at the Canadian embassy in Washington and the Ontario Securities Commission. He has a BA in economics from Yale University.
Many are familiar with the issue of impartiality in the context of international-investment arbitral panels. Less talked about, however, is how these same concerns bear on arbitrators in disputes under the Canadian Free Trade Agreement.
