This volume collects the articles emanating from the twenty-first Congress of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA) held in Singapore in 2012. It opens with a thought-provoking keynote address on the present Golden Age of arbitration and its potential weaknesses and covers both practical and theoretical topics addressed by renowned arbitration practitioners and scholars.

Two principal themes are addressed.

• The first deals with various aspects of the arbitration proceedings and#8211; from the agreement to arbitrate and the...