ICCA's Congress Series no. 14

The published version of papers delivered at ICCA's 2008 Congress held in Dublin -- ICCA's Congress Series no. 14 -- is now available.  Copies can be obtained through Kluwer Law International, and content is available on-line to KluwerArbitration subscribers. The Tables of Contents of all volumes in the ICCA Congress Series are published on this site on our Publications page.

ICCA's Yearbook Commercial Arbitration for 2009

ICCA's Yearbook Commercial Arbitration for 2009 recently became available.  Copies can be obtained through Kluwer Law International, and content of the Yearbook for 2009 will shortly be available on-line to KluwerArbitration subscribers. Consolidated lists of all court decisions and arbitral awards published in the Yearbook since its inception are published on this site on our Publications page, which also contains a consolidated list of New York Convention cases indexed per subject matter according to Prof. Albert Jan van den Berg's Commentary.

Robert Briner 1930-2009

ICCA mourns the loss of one of its most respected Advisory Members, Robert Briner, who died on 3 December 2009 at the age of seventy-nine. 

In the course of a career that began in the tax and corporate practice of the Swiss firm Lenz and Staehelin, and then spanned several decades in the international arbitration world, he acted as arbitrator and counsel in numerous arbitrations. He held positions at the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal, The Hague (acting as President of the Tribunal from 1989 to 1991), and as Chairman of the ICC International Court of Arbitration between 1997 and 2006. He was also appointed to the United Nations Compensation Commission and to the Claims Resolution Tribunal for Dormant Accounts in Switzerland, and was a member of the International Bar Association, the International Council of Arbitration for Sport and the Executive Board of the Swiss Arbitration Association.

Robert Briner will be remembered for his intellectual vigour, integrity, fairness and collegiality. ICCA’s sympathies go out to his wife, children and grandchildren.

Links for Young Practitioners Available

ICCA looks to the future: the ICCA website continues to feature links for young arbitration practitioners, see our Related Links page.

Netherlands Arbitration Institute's Jong Oranje hold first annual dinner

On 26 June 2009, the NAI Jong Oranje held a successful first annual Arbitration Dinner in Amsterdam for both Dutch arbitration practitioners (above and under 40) and international invitees. President of the Netherlands Arbitration Institute and ICCA Member Albert Jan van den Berg gave an introductory speech and speakers included ICCA Member Jan Paulsson and Filip de Ly. NAI Jong Oranje hope to make the dinner an annual event.

Piet Sanders' "Herinneringen" ("Recollections") Available

SUN Publishers in Amsterdam has released “Herinneringen” (Recollections or Memories) by ICCA Honorary President Piet Sanders. more...

Award rendered in lumber conflict between US and Canada

In the latest development in a long-running lumber-exporting conflict between the US and Canada, an LCIA Tribunal chaired by ICCA Member Karl-Heinz Bockstiegel rendered a 2nd Award in March 2009 deciding on remedies for a breach of the Treaty by Canada imposing extra charges on provincial lumber manufacturers. Canada chose to pay the US a lump sum of US$37 million rather than imposing extra charges. This comes after a first award by the same Tribunal on liability rendered last year that cleared British Colombia and Alberta, Canada's two biggest lumber-exporting provinces, of miscalculating quotas.
In April 2009, the United States imposed tariffs claiming that the lump sum is not a sufficient remedy, and a third LCIA arbitration proceeding before the same Tribunal has  in this context started to decide whether the lump sum payment or another remedy is sufficient. See full report.

ICCA members involved in new initiative of University of Miami School of Law

ICCA Members Jan Paulsson and Albert Jan van den Berg will be part of a distinguished faculty teaching in a new Masters Program in International Law offered by the University of Miami School of Law.  The program -- which offers a specialization in international arbitration -- commences in August 2009. It is linked to a newly-established arbitration institute for international arbitration, also based at the School of Law.  For detailed course requirements, click here.

Updated Investment Treaty Digest now available

ICCA's Yearbook Commercial Arbitration has just published an updated Investment Treaty Digest of all final decisions in investor-State arbitrations under investment treaties through July 2008. Now available on this website.

ICCA co-host conference in Vienna, May 2009

ICCA and the International Arbitral Centre of the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber (VIAC) hosted a Joint Conference on "New Developments in Arbitration in Latin America and in the Asia-Pacific Region" in Vienna on 29 May 2009. (See conference programme attached).

ICCA's Yearbook Commercial Arbitration for 2008

ICCA's Yearbook Commercial Arbitration for 2008 recently became available.  Copies can be obtained through Kluwer Law International, and content of the Yearbook for 2008 will shortly be available on-line to KluwerArbitration subscribers. Consolidated lists of all court decisions and arbitral awards published in the Yearbook since its inception are published on this site on our Publications page, which also contains a consolidated list of New York Convention cases indexed per subject matter according to Prof. Albert Jan van den Berg's Commentary

The New York Convention at 50

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 complemented by inspired discussion of the topic by Rory Brady S.C., Teresa Cheng S.C., Professor Gaillard, Carolyn Lamm and Peter Turner, a last minute step-in for Jan Paulsson, will be published in the forthcoming ICCA Congress Series.

ICCA DUBLIN 2008

ICCA 2008 took place from 8-10 June 2008 in Dublin and marked the exact 50th anniversary of the New York Convention. The Conference was the high-point of 2008's celebrations marking the most influential convention in the field of international commercial arbitration.

ICCA NEW WEB SITE

This year ICCA gives a window into its world with the launch of its new website. On the site you'll find special previews of members' academic projects, new consolidated tools to help you grapple with the variety of sources for arbitral awards and case law, out of school comments by some of the international arbitration's best known names, articles with angles and a bio on a special ICCA member...

Launch date: 8 June 2008, ICCA Conference, Dublin