International Arbitration: Law and Practice, 3rd Edition

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About this book:

International Arbitration provides comprehensive and authoritative coverage of the basic principles and legal doctrines, and the practice, of international arbitration. The book contains a systematic, but concise, treatment of all aspects of the arbitral process, including international arbitration agreements, international arbitral proceedings and international arbitral awards. The Third Edition has been comprehensively updated to include recent legislative amendments, judicial decisions and arbitral awards. Among other things, the book provides a detailed treatment of the New York Convention, the UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration, all leading institutional arbitration rules (including ICC, SIAC, LCIA, AAA and others), the ICSID Convention and ICSID Arbitration Rules, and judicial decisions from leading jurisdictions.

What’s in this book:

The book emphasizes on introducing the fundamental legal principles and customary practices in international arbitration, including the following:
- legal framework of international arbitration;
- formation, validity and interpretation;
- non-signatory, procedural, multi-party and multi-contract issues;
- selection and removal of arbitrators;
- disclosure and evidence-taking;
- confidentiality and transparency; and
- legal representatives and professional responsibility.
How this will help you:

This highly regarded work that addresses both international commercial arbitration and the related fields of investment and state-to-state arbitration is essential reading for any student of international arbitration and guides practitioners through the entire arbitral process, beginning with drafting, enforcing and interpreting international arbitration agreements, to selecting arbitrators and conducting arbitral proceedings, to recognizing, implementing and seeking to annul arbitral awards.
Table of Abbreviations

Preface to Third Edition

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1

Introduction to International Arbitration

Part I

International Arbitration Agreements

Chapter 2

International Arbitration Agreements: Legal Framework

Chapter 3

Formation and Validity of International Arbitration Agreements

Chapter 4

Interpretation of International Arbitration Agreements

Chapter 5

International Arbitration Agreements: Non-Signatory Issues

Part II

International Arbitral Proceedings

Chapter 6

International Arbitral Proceedings: Legal Framework

Chapter 7

Selection and Removal of Arbitrators in International Arbitration

Chapter 8

Procedural Issues in International Arbitration

Chapter 9

Disclosure and Evidence-Taking in International Arbitration

Chapter 10

Confidentiality and Transparency in International Arbitration

Chapter 11

Provisional Measures in International Arbitration

Chapter 12

Multi-Party and Multi-Contract Issues in International Arbitration

Chapter 13

Choice of Substantive Law in International Arbitration

Chapter 14

Legal Representatives and Professional Responsibility in International Arbitration

Part III

International Arbitral Awards

Chapter 15

International Arbitral Awards: Legal Framework

Chapter 16

Annulment of International Arbitral Awards

Chapter 17

Recognition and Enforcement of International Arbitral Awards

Chapter 18

Investor-State and State-to-State Arbitration

Appendix A

United Nations Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards (New York Convention)

Appendix B

UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration (1985)

Appendix C

UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration (2006 Revisions)

Subject Index
Gary Born is universally regarded as one of the world's preeminent authorities on international commercial arbitration and international litigation. He is Chair of the International Arbitration Practice Group at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP and has served as counsel in over 600 arbitrations, including several of the largest arbitrations in ICC and ad hoc history. He has sat as arbitrator in more than 200 institutional and ad hoc arbitrations.

Mr. Born is ranked by peers and clients as one of the leading international arbitration practitioners in the world. Among many accolades, he received the GAR inaugural “Advocate of the Year” award, the Client Choice award for “Best International Arbitration Practitioner” in 2012 and 2014 and the inaugural Best Lawyers “London Arbitration and Mediation Lawyer of the Year” award. He is one of only two practitioners globally to achieve “starred” status for international arbitration in Chambers and Partners’ guides and the sole practitioner in London.

Mr. Born has published a number of leading works on international arbitration, international litigation and other forms of dispute resolution. He is the author of International Commercial Arbitration (Second Edition, Kluwer 2014), the leading treatise in the field, which has received the American Society of International Law's Certificate of Merit for High Technical Craftsmanship and OGEMID's Book of the Year award for 2009. He is an Honorary Professor of Law at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland and Tsinghua University, Beijing, and teaches regularly at law schools in Europe, Asia and North America.

Mr. Born is President of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) Court of Arbitration, a member of the International Advisory Board of the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC), a member of the International Arbitration Committee of the Korean Commercial Arbitration Board (KCAB), a member of the Global Advisory Board of the New York International Arbitration Center (NYIAC), and a member of the Jerusalem Arbitration Center's Court of Arbitration.

He is a member of the American Law Institute and of the Board of Trustees of the British Institute for International and Comparative Law. He has served on the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law, the Advisory Committee of the ALI's Restatement of US International Arbitration Law, the Advisory Committee of the ALI Restatement of US Foreign Relation Law (Fourth) and as co-chair of the ABA International Section, Committee on International Aspects of Litigation.