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ICCA Members publish new texts on arbitration

New books on arbitration by ICCA Members include texts by David Williams QC and by Kap-You (Kevin) Kim (ICCA’s current Secretary-General).

David Williams’s text, co-authored with Amokura Kawharu and entitled “Williams & Kawharu on Arbitration” is an analysis of the law and practice of domestic and international arbitration in New Zealand. It includes a foreword by Gary Born and is available from LexisNexis.

 Kevin Kim (with colleague John Bang) is one of two general editors of a text on the law and practice of arbitration on South Korea, authored by their Seoul-based law firm Bae, Kim and Lee, LLC. The text is entitled “Arbitration Law of Korea – practice and procedure” and is available from Juris Publishing.

Young ICCA Members Use Blog to Post Articles

The Young ICCA website has recently created a blog page, to provide Young ICCA Members and Buddies with an opportunity to publish papers, and receive comments from their peers. Recent articles on the Young ICCA blog cover themes as diverse as: arbitration agreements in Saudi Arabia, tax “grossed-up” claims in investment arbitration, enforcement of foreign arbitral awards in Brazil and Croatian arbitration law. See the Young ICCA Blog page for more details.

LSE autumn lecture series commences

The London School of Economics autumn lecture series commenced on 6 October, with a lecture on “The Idea of Arbitration” by ICCA President, Jan Paulsson, who holds the title of Centenary Professor at the LSE. Other lectures in the series will take place on 13 October and 24 November, see http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/law/projects/tlp/events.htm for more details.

Essays in honour of Ulf Franke

In March 2010, Honorary ICCA Secretary General Ulf Franke retired as Secretary General from the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (SCC). To mark his 35 years of service to the Institute, the SCC has dedicated a collection of essays to him titled “Between East and West: Essays in Honour of Ulf Franke”. The 43 essays in the book by leading practitioners reflect on changes to the practice of arbitration in Mr. Franke’s long career, as well as current pressing issues in the arbitration community, with topics ranging from aspects of institutional practice, the enforcement of awards and document production, to legitimate expections in investment disputes.

The volume is edited by Kaj Hobér, Annette Magnussen and Marie Öhrström, and is available from Juris Publishing.

Emmanuel Gaillard’s Hague Academy Lectures now available in English

The English-language edition of lectures delivered by ICCA Member Emmanuel Gaillard at the Hague Academy of International Law in the summer of 2007 is now available under the title “Legal Theory of International Arbitration”. The French-language edition of the book (“Aspects Philosophiques du Droit de l’Arbitrage”) was published in 2008 as the first in a new pocketbook series launched by The Hague Academy.

In his book, Professor Gaillard identifies and discusses the principles at the heart of arbitration (autonomy and freedom), examining the internal coherence and practical consequences of issues such as the freedom of the parties to choose a private means of dispute settlement over the jurisdiction of the state courts, to appoint individual arbitrators, to shape the procedure, to determine the law applicable to the substance of the dispute by referring to the legal system of a country or even to no legal system at all, as well as the freedom of the arbitrators to decide on their own jurisdiction and determine the procedure and the applicable law if the parties are silent.

Both French and English texts are available from Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, The Netherlands. (Introduction to French text and to English text attached.)

Fifth Edition of Redfern & Hunter Launched

Late 2009 saw the launch of the fifth edition of “Redfern and Hunter on International Arbitration”, the standard work on arbitration law and practice. ICCA member Martin Hunter has co-authored this classic work, with Alan Redfern, since the first edition was published almost a quarter of a century ago, in 1986. For the fourth edition they were joined by two new co-authors, Nigel Blackaby and Constantine Partasides, who are both partners at Freshfields, where Martin and Alan spent the first part of their long careers in the field of international arbitration. As foreseen in the preface to the fourth edition, the mantle of primary authorship of the work has passed to Nigel and Constantine, and the title has evolved from “Law and Practice of International Commercial Arbitration” to “Redfern and Hunter on International Arbitration”, reflecting not only the legacy of the original authors but also the fact that its scope has been expanded to cover arbitrations held under international treaties such as the Washington Convention, NAFTA, BITs and the Energy Charter Treaty.

As with the previous edition, the full text of the fifth edition has been published on-line at www.KluwerArbitration.com, with the footnotes in the book “hyperlinked” to their sources in ICCA and other publications available in electronic form on the Kluwer website. Those accustomed to hyperlinking will be aware that this facility offers researchers the major benefit of being able to click on the footnote and access the full text of the source materials mentioned (such as international conventions, statutes, case reports and commentaries).  As the ICCA publications increase both in scope and content – for example, the 2009 edition of ICCA's “Yearbook Commercial Arbitration”  is the 34th volume and contains no less than 1,294 pages, and ICCA’s “Handbook on Commercial Arbitration” contains more that 70 entries on national legislation and arbitral practice in loose-leaf form – this method of presenting legal research materials offers a serious tool to users in an age in which the sheer volume of published reference materials expands exponentially each year.

The 5th edition of “Redfern and Hunter” is available in hard copy from Oxford University Press.

GUILLERMO AGUILAR ALVAREZ AND MICHAEL REISMAN RELEASE VOLUME ON INVESTMENT ARBITRATION

ICCA member Guillermo Aguilar Alvarez has co-edited a collection of papers with Michael Reisman on the reasoning in investment arbitration awards. “The Reasons Requirement in International Investment Arbitration: Critical Case Studies” gathers ten papers written during a seminar on investment arbitration law at Yale Law School in 2005-2006. The editors’ introductory chapter asks how well investment awards are reasoned and provides an overview, followed by analyses of the adequacy of the reasoning in ten recent investment law decisions. The volume is available from Martinus Nijhoff Publishers/Koninklijke Brill.

Appointment of ICCA Member, Jan Paulsson, to the Michael Klein Distinguished Scholar Chair by the University of Miami

The University of Miami has announced the appointment of ICCA Member Jan Paulsson to the Michael Klein Distinguished Scholar Chair beginning in the academic year 2009-10.  In this post, he will head up the newly established institute for international arbitration at the University of Miami School of Law. See the full report.

United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law

The Codification Division of the Office of Legal Affairs of the United Nations has recently launched a new United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law.  Visit the United Nations site at http://www.un.org/law/avl.

As Gerold Herrmann concluded his term as ICCA´s President on 23 May 2010, ICCA members paid tribute. See the special tribute page of this site.

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