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Yearbook Commercial Arbitration, Volume XL 2015

Yearbook Commercial Arbitration, Volume XL 2015

Author: Albert Jan van den Berg
Publisher: Kluwer Law International
ISBN: 9789041159458
Published In: December 2015
Format: Hardback , 808 pages
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The Yearbook Commercial Arbitration continues its longstanding commitment to serving as a primary resource for the international arbitration community with reporting on arbitral awards and court decisions applying the leading arbitration conventions, as well as on arbitration legislation and rules.

Volume XL (2015) includes:

excerpts of arbitral awards made under the auspices of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and the Paris International Arbitration Chamber (CAIP);

notes on new and amended arbitration rules, including references to their online publication;

notes on recent developments in arbitration law and practice in Andorra, Australia, Belarus, Brazil, Comoros, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), Latvia, Slovakia, the State of Palestine, Turkey and the United States;

excerpts of 68 court decisions applying the 1958 New York Convention from 24 countries – including, for the first time, cases from Anguilla, Belarus and Latvia – all indexed by subject matter and linked to the General Editor’s published commentaries on the New York Convention;

an extensive Bibliography of recent books and journals on arbitration.

The Yearbook is edited by the International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA), the world’s leading organization representing practitioners and academics in the field, with the assistance of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, The Hague. It is an essential tool for lawyers, business people and scholars involved in the practice and study of international arbitration.

Introduction.

Prof. Albert Jan van den Berg, General Editor.

Online Resources.

ICCA Congress 2016.

Note to the Reader.

Part I – National Reports.

Part II – Arbitration Rules.

Part III – Recent Developments in Arbitration Law and Practice.

Part IV – Arbitral Awards.

Index of Arbitral Awards Index Awards.

Part V – A. Court Decisions on the New York Convention 1958.

Part V – B. Court Decisions on the European Convention 1961.

Part V – C. Court Decisions on the Washington Convention 1965.

Part V – D. Court Decisions on the Panama Convention 1975.

Part V – E. Other Court Decisions on Arbitration.

Part VI – Bibliography.

List of ICCA Officers and Governing Board Members.

List of ICCA Members.

Professor Albert Jan van den Berg is and has been sole, presiding and party-appointed arbitrator in numerous international arbitrations relating to various fields. Professor van den Berg also frequently acts as counsel in international commercial arbitration matters.

He is a founding partner at the Brussels-headquartered law firm Hanotiau & van den Berg. He is on many panels of arbitrators including the American Arbitration Association (AAA), China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC), Netherlands Arbitration Institute (NAI), Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) and many more.

He was the President of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA) from 2014 to 2016. Professor van den Berg is also former President and Secretary-General of the NAI and former Vice-President of the LCIA. He is Emeritus Professor of Law (arbitration chair) at Erasmus University, Rotterdam, a Visiting Professor at Georgetown University Law Center, Washington DC and at Tsinghua University Law School, Beijing and a member of the Faculty of the Geneva University MIDS, Geneva.

Professor van den Berg is Acting General Editor of the Yearbook: Commercial Arbitration. He has extensively published and lectured on international arbitration and has founded and maintains a website on the New York Convention on the Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards.

He was awarded the "Best Prepared and Most Responsive Arbitrator" by the Global Arbitration Review in 2013 and "Arbitration: Lawyer of the Year Award" by The International Who's Who Legal in 2006, 2011 and 2017.