Conflict of Laws in International Arbitration : : / / ed. by Franco Ferrari, Stefan Kröll.

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&qu...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
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Place / Publishing House:Munich : : Otto Schmidt/De Gruyter european law pub, , [2010]
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Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (466 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • List of Contributors
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • I. Introduction
  • Conflicts of law in international arbitration – an overview
  • II. Conflict of Laws questions concerning the arbitration agreement and the jurisdiction of the tribunal
  • The law applicable to the validity of the arbitration agreement: A practitioner’s view
  • Applicable laws under the New York Convention
  • Jurisdiction and applicable law in the case of so-called pathological arbitration clauses in view of the proposed reform of the Brussels I-Regulation
  • Arbitrability and conflict of jurisdictions: The (diminishing) relevance of lex fori and lex loci arbitri
  • Extension of arbitration agreements to third parties: A never ending legal quest through the spatial-temporal continuum
  • The effect of overriding mandatory rules on the arbitration agreement
  • Arbitration and Insolvency – Selected conflict of laws problems
  • III. Conflict of Laws questions concerning the law applicable to the merits
  • Getting to the law applicable to the merits in international arbitration and the consequences of getting it wrong
  • Mandatory rules of law in international arbitration
  • Conflict of overriding mandatory rules in arbitration
  • The law applicable to the assignment of claims subject to an arbitration agreement
  • IV. Conflict of Laws questions concerning the arbitration procedure
  • The laws governing interim measures in international arbitration
  • Index