Kategoria BISAC: Law >> Arbitration, Negotiation, Mediation

Dossier XIII of the ICC Institute of World Business Law

Several decades ago, a typical arbitration would involve one claimant against one respondent. Over the years, more and more cases involve several claimants against several respondents. Today, one third of all international ICC arbitrations seem to involve multiparty cases, multi-contract cases involving multiple contracta, multiple parties. The evolution has continued and the debate today is whether it would be possible for a class of people in the same situation or a group of citizens having the same interest...

Arbitrating for Peace: How Arbitration Made a Difference focuses on the geopolitical role played by international arbitration over the centuries. The book convincingly demonstrates how international arbitration has made a difference and contributed to peaceful resolution of conflicts. Although short of attaining the ideal of a 'substitute for war', arbitration has largely succeeded in peacefully resolving international disputes. Beyond that, arbitral commitments and arbitral processes have deepened civilized and cooperative international relations,...

The rapidly growing number of investors' disputes with states and the approach of arbitral tribunals, perceived by some, whether rightly or not, as being too investor-friendly, underlie a contentious debate about the need to strike a more effective balance between investors' rights under international investment agreements (IIAs) and the right of states to pursue legitimate regulation in the public interest. In this regard the European Union, with the exclusive external competence in foreign direct investment vested in it under the Lisbon Treaty, is emerging as the leader and driving force...

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.

What's in this book:

Volume XLI (2016) includes:

• excerpts of arbitral awards made under the auspices of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), the Milan Chamber of Arbitration (CAM) and the Paris International Arbitration Chamber (CAIP);
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We all expect a divorce to be both emotionally and financially draining. Unfortunately, anger and anxiety often distract divorcees from the important task at hand: navigating the divorce proceedings. The difference between becoming buried in debt and hitting the ground running is effectively negotiating and working with your divorce attorney.

Wayne Schoeneberg, JD, CPC, is an attorney with more than forty years of experience. In this essential handbook, Schoeneberg lays out the essential need-to-know details of how to approach your divorce in a way that offers you the most benefit...

International Arbitration Law Library Series Volume 39

Arbitral Awards as Investments analyzes the treatment of arbitral awards as investments within international investment law. The rise of international investment arbitration has resulted in the emergence of a number of intriguing legal and political challenges. One of those is the question of whether or not arbitral awards may constitute investments pursuant to existing investment treaties. In approaching the problem, it is the interconnection between theory and practice that delivers solutions....

International business exchanges between and with Asian countries have increased enormously over the last few years. As a natural consequence, this has brought about an increasing number of trade disputes that are being resolved through arbitration as an effective alternative to more expensive litigation. This volume offers a variety of perspectives on this important international dispute resolution practice in Asia. Essentially interdisciplinary in approach, it brings together specialists in law, international commercial arbitration and discourse analysis. The contributing authors include...

Written by internal counsel, for internal counsel: clear, concise and inspirational. Personifies that the -benefit of the bargain- is not simply a game of numbers.

Ute Joas Quinn, Associate General Counsel Exploration and Production, Hess Corporation

Spot on A user-friendly book that I was using before I reached the end. It made me think more creatively about all my negotiations to come. A must-read for every current and future in-house counsel.

Cyril Dumoulin, Senior Legal Counsel Global...