Our colleague Réka Bali spoke at the Opening Plenary Session of Swedish Arbitration Days on 10 September 2026 at the Grand Hotel in Stockholm. The conference was hosted by the Swedish Arbitration Association and the SCC Arbitration Institute. The session, Democracy, the Rule of Law, and the Future of International Arbitration, opened with Staffan Lindberg’s global overview based on V-Dem’s Democracy Report 2026. A panel moderated by Caroline Falconer followed, with Deborah Enix-Ross speaking about the United States, Susan Munro about China and Réka Bali about Hungary.
Réka’s contribution examined recent developments in Hungary and asked a difficult question: can the rule of law be restored using only the tools of the rule of law?
