New York Convention at 50

Showing its age or fit as a fiddle?

The Plenary Session of the ICCA Conference on 10 June 2008, entitled “The New York Convention at 50,” marked the occasion for international arbitration experts to gather and discuss the New York Convention 1958, past and future, its successes and its potential shortcomings. 

The papers presented during this discussion, headlined by Professor van den Berg and chaired by Donald Francis Donovan, complemented by inspired discussion of the topic by Rory Brady S.C., Teresa Cheng S.C., Professor Gaillard, Carolyn Lamm and Peter Turner, are available from Wolters Kluwer as ICCA Congress Series no.14, entitled “50 Years of the New York Convention”.