The collected papers in ICCA Congress Series no. 11, as reflected in its title, address important contemporary questions in international commercial arbitration. Included are contributions written by participants in the UNCITRAL Working Group on Arbitration and Conciliation on its current work on the requirement of a written form for an arbitration agreement, interim measures of protection and UNCITRALs Model Law on International Commercial Conciliation. Further contributions give leading practitioners views on illegality in the formation and performance of contracts or in the conduct of the...

This Congress Series contains the proceedings of ICCA's 1998 Paris Congress, hosted by the Comitand#233; franand#231;ais de l'Arbitrage. This Congress marked the 40th anniversary of the 1958 New York Convention. Three working groups, made up of international experts, professionals and practitioners in the field of arbitration, examined the following topics:

Arbitration Clauses: Achieving Effectiveness Arbitration Procedure: Achieving Efficiency Without Sacrificing Due Process Arbitration Awards: Solving Problems of Enforcement.

The New York Arbitration Convention of 1958 is the cornerstone of international commercial arbitration. Although judicial interpretation of the Convention has proceeded since the publication of Albert Jan van den Bergand#8217;s classic commentary, his extraordinarily thorough analysis remains the preeminent work on the application and enforcement aspects of the Convention.

Setting out to repair what van den Berg calls and#8220;an undesirable degree of uncertaintyand#8221; in judicial interpretation of the Convention, his analysis takes a comparative approach to relevant court...

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The Yearbook is a publication of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration in cooperation with the T.M.C. Asser Institute for International and European Law, The Hague. The Yearbook provides comprehensive and up-to-date worldwide information on commercial arbitration. A subscription ensures you will receive all future annual volumes automatically.

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The Yearbook Commercial Arbitration continues its longstanding commitment to serving as a primary resource for the international arbitration community with reporting on arbitral awards and court decisions applying the leading arbitration conventions, as well as on arbitration legislation and rules. Volume XXVII (2002) includes: and#8226; excerpts of arbitral awards made under the auspices of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) and its Additional Facility, the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and the World Intellectual Property Organization...

This volume of the Yearbook Commercial Arbitration includes coverage of: draft arbitration laws announced for Sweden and Germany; arbitration awards addressing issues such as bribery, copyright infringement, and applicable law; new legislation for England, India, and Kenya; arbitration awards applying the Arbitration Rules of the Economic Commission for Europe as well as the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules in the framework of the Convention establishing the Inter-Arab Investment Guarantee Corporation; arbitration awards from arbitrations conducted under the auspices of the International...

This 20th volume of the Yearbook Commercial Arbitration completes two decades of comprehensive reporting on current developments in the field of international commercial arbitration. The Yearbook has broadly maintained its original format and continues to publish arbitral awards, both institutional and ad hoc, new and amended rules of arbitral institutions, and accounts of current developments in the law and practice of commercial arbitration worldwide. The Yearbook also includes broad coverage of court decisions applying the UNCITRAL Model Law in International Commercial Arbitration,...