What a modernised version of the New York Convention could look like...

At the Plenary Session of the ICCA Conference, Dublin, on 10 June 2008, Prof. Dr. Albert Jan van den Berg presented the international arbitration community with his proposal for a new New York Convention 1958.

Drafted with some of the contemporary questions in mind, the new proposal, amongst other matters: dispenses with the writing requirement for arbitration agreements currently in Article II, clarifies the question of residual power to refuse enforcement arising under Article V and inserts the "missing language" confirming the application of the more favourable right provision in Article VII to arbitration agreements.

To see the proposed new Convention, a comparision of the provisions of the current and new proposed Convention and an explanatory note regarding the changes, visit Prof. Dr. van den Berg's profile page on the Officers & Members page of this site.