Euro-Arab Arbitration 11 (Proceedings of the Second Euro-Arab Arbitration Congress, Bahrain) edited by Dr. Fathi Kemicha

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Euro-Arab Arbitration 11 (Proceedings of the Second Euro-Arab Arbitration Congress, Bahrain), edited by DR FATHI KEMICHA. Published by Graham & Trotman, London (1989, 227 pp. Incl. List of Participants and Contents ). Hardback £61.50; US$117 . In addition to its Opening and Closing Sessions, the Euro-Arab Arbitration II seminar (called ‘Congress’), held on October 26–28, 1987 in Bahrain, had the following structure and major themes. First session: General Introductory Report: Arbitration in the Euro-Arab Commercial Relations: Reflections on the Philosophy of Commercial Arbitration. Second session: Rules of Ethics of Arbitration: Legal and Moral Obligations of the Arbitrator; Legal and Moral Obligations of the Counsel and of the Parties. Third session: The Arbitral Procedure and the Rules of Evidence: The Internal Rules of Procedure in the Arab Countries and the Arbitral Procedure; the Rules of Evidence in the Arbitral Procedure: comparative study. Fourth session: The conditions of validity of the Arbitral Award: Condition of Validity in Conventional ( sic ) and Comparative Law; Conditions of Validity in the Law and Practice of Arab Countries. Fifth session: Commercial Arbitration Principles and Procedure: An applied Study on Bahrain's Experience in Arbitration and Settlement of Commercial Disputes; Final Reports. Each session was introduced by a short address from an ad hoc chairman, followed by a panel discussion (second, third and fourth sessions) and concluded with a general discussion. The original speeches were given in Arabic, French or English. Strangely, the General Discussions are translated in extenso in both languages, but the Panel Discussions are published in their original version (English or French). The papers are summarized in translation, often incompletely in a cryptic shorthand, even though they bear the ambitious title of Synthese en francais . The synthese and synopsis are of unequal length and value and often do not do justice to the contents of the speeches. Some papers deserve full translations. ### First Session Professor Mohsen Chafic's address, ‘Reflections on the Philosophy of Commercial Arbitration’, is somewhat disappointing in as much as it does not tackle the real problems, e.g. the particular difficulties …