Ferrari / Kröll Conflict of Laws in International Arbitration

n.a.
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-3-86653-929-7
Verlag: Otto Schmidt
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 479 Seiten

Irrespective of the increasing harmonization of law at the transnational level, every arbitration raises a number of confl ict of laws problems relating to procedural questions as well as to issues concerning the merits of the case. Unlike a state court judge, the arbitrator has no "lex fori" in the proper sense providing the relevant confl ict rules to determine the applicable law. This raises the question of what confl ict of laws rules to apply and, consequently, of the extent of the freedom the arbitrator enjoys in dealing with this and related issues. The best example of the importance of confl ict of laws questions in arbitration is the Vivendi-Elektrim saga where the outcome of the various proceedings depended on the question of characterization.
This very beneficial book is dealing with
- the arbitration agreement,
- the jurisdiction of the arbitral tribunal,
- the law applicable to the merits and
- the arbitration procedure.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ferrari, Franco

Kröll, Stefan

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Zivilprozess- und Schiedsverfahrensrecht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Preface;6
2;List of Contributors;8
3;Contents;10
4;Abbreviations;12
5;I. Introduction;16
5.1;Conficts of law in international arbitration – an overview;18
6;II. Confict of Laws questions concerning the arbitration agreement and the jurisdiction of the tribunal;32
6.1;The law applicable to the validity of the arbitration agreement: A practitioner’s view;34
6.2;Applicable laws under the New York Convention;78
6.3;Jurisdiction and applicable law in the case of so-called pathological arbitration clauses in view of the proposed reform of the Brussels I-Regulation;96
6.4;Arbitrability and confict of jurisdictions: The (diminishing) relevance of lex fori and lex loci arbitri;132
6.5;Extension of arbitration agreements to third parties: A never ending legal quest through the spatial-temporal continuum;152
6.6;The effect of overriding mandatory rules on the arbitration agreement;202
6.7;Arbitration and Insolvency – Selected confict of laws problems;226
7;III. Confict of Laws questions concerning the law applicable to the merits;270
7.1;Getting to the law applicable to the merits in international arbitration and the consequences of getting it wrong;272
7.2;Mandatory rules of law in international arbitration;340
7.3;Confict of overriding mandatory rules in arbitration;356
7.4;The law applicable to the assignment of claims subject to an arbitration agreement;394
8;IV. Confict of Laws questions concerning the arbitration procedure;422
8.1;The laws governing interim measures in international arbitration;424
9;Index;474