International commercial arbitration

Abstract

Volume I, covering International Arbitration Agreements, provides a comprehensive discussion of international commercial arbitration agreements. It includes chapters dealing with the legal framework for enforcing international arbitration agreements the separability presumption choice of law formation and validity nonarbitrability competence-competence and the allocation of jurisdictional competence the effects of arbitration agreements interpretation and non-signatory issues. Volume II, covering International Arbitration Procedures, provides a detailed discussion of international arbitral procedures. It includes chapters dealing with the legal framework for international arbitral proceedings the selection, challenge and replacement of arbitrators the rights and duties of international arbitrators selection of the arbitral seat arbitration procedures disclosure and discovery provisional measures consolidation, joinder and intervention choice of substantive law confidentiality and legal representation and standards of professional conduct. Volume III, dealing with International Arbitral Awards, provides a detailed discussion of the issues arising from international arbitration awards. It includes chapters covering the form and contents of awards the correction, interpretation and supplementation of awards the annulment and confirmation of awards the recognition and enforcement of arbitral awards and issues of preclusion, lis pendens and staredecisis.