Contemporary Issues in International Arbitration and Mediation: The Fordham Papers (2008)

Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-90-04-17555-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 2, 382 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 1089 g

Reihe: Contemporary Issues in International Arbitration and Mediation: The Fordham Papers

'Contemporary Issues in International Arbitration and Mediation - The Fordham Papers 2008' is the second annual volume of papers on international arbitration and mediation written by leading figures in the field who spoke at the 2008 Fordham Law School Conference on International Arbitration, held at Fordham in New York City on June 16-17, 2008. The 24 papers are organized into five parts that address investor-state arbitration, recent significant domestic judicial decisions involving or potentially involving international arbitration, class actions and consolidation in international arbitration, intellectual property and information technology issues, and mediation, including confidentiality, qualifications, M & A outcomes, the European Directive, and mediation in China.

The papers focus on both practical considerations and scholarly analyses.

Zielgruppe

The collection is of interest to those involved in investor-state and international commercial arbitration and mediation, including arbitrators, mediators, advocates, scholars, governments officials, international institutions, and students

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rovine, Arthur W

Fachgebiete

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I: Investor-State Arbitration
Overview of Investor-State Arbitration, Gabrielle Kaufmann-Kohler

New Generation of Bilateral Investment Treaties: Consensus
or Divergence? John Beechey and Antony Crockett

Eclipse of Expropriation? W. Michael Reisman and Rocio Digon

Interim Measures: An Arbitrator’s Provisional Views,
L. Yves Fortier, C.C., Q.C.

Treatment of Non-Disputing State Party Views in Investor-
State Arbitrations, Andrea J. Menaker

Part II: Recent Significant Domestic Judicial Decisions Involving or
Potentially Involving International Arbitration
Current Developments in the United States, Donald Francis Donovan

England: A Look Back on a Year of Authority and Hilarity,
Sophie Nappert

Recent Significant French Judicial Decisions Involving
International Arbitration, Philippe Pinsolle

Recent Austrian, German, and Swiss Judicial Decisions
Involving International Arbitration, Hilmar Raeschke-Kessler

Part III: Class Actions and Consolidation in International Arbitration
Overcoming Obstacles to Consolidation of International
Arbitrations, Michael Marks Cohen

Should No-Class Action Arbitration Clauses Be Enforced,
Frederic Bachand

Desirability of International Class Arbitration,
Dana H. Freyer and Gregory A. Litt

Feasibility of Class Arbitration, John Fellas

Part IV: Intellectual Property and Information Technology Issues in
International Arbitration
Choice of Law in International Intellectual Property
Arbitrations: A Three-Dimensional Chess Game? Thomas D. Halket

International Arbitration of Intellectual Property Validity, Joel E. Lutzker

Using Information Technology Efficiently in International
Arbitration, Erik Schafer

Electronic Discovery and Arbitration: A Shortcut Through EDiscovery,
Irene C. Warshauer

Part V: Mediation: Issues, Solutions, and Expanding Applications
How Confidential Is Mediation Confidentiality? John Michael Richardson

Mediators Take Note: Are We a Cottage Industry? Are We a
Profession? Who Will Decide?, Judith P. Meyer and Michael Leathes

Using Mediation Techniques to Improve M&A Outcomes,
Patricia Barclay

European Directive on Commercial Mediation: What It
Provides and What It Doesn’t, F. Peter Phillips

Commercial Mediation in China: Challenge of Shifting
Paradigms, F. Peter Phillips

Mediation Trends in Australia—Deja Vu and Innovation
Ian Hanger

Final Step: Issues in Enforcing the Mediation Settlement
Agreement, Edna Sussman