Yearbook of Commercial Arbitration 2002

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 XXVII (2002) includes: • excerpts of arbitral awards made under the auspices of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) and its Additional Facility, the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Arbitration and Mediation Center; • the text of and commentary to: – the International Arbitration Rules of the American Arbitration Association (AAA) International Centre for Dispute Resolution (1 November 2001) – WIPO’s Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy and Rules for Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (both of 24 October 1999), as well as the Supplemental Rules for Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (1 December 1999) – the Rules of Procedure (1 April 2002) and Internal Administrative Procedures of the Inter-American Commercial Arbitration Commission (IACAC) – the Optional Rules for Conciliation of Disputes Relating to Natural Resources and/or the Environment (16 April 2002) of the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA); • notes on recent developments in arbitration law and practice in Bangladesh, Croatia, Singapore, Thailand, Turkey, and an Introduction to and the text of the UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Conciliation; • excerpts of 62 court decisions applying the 1958 New York Convention from 11 countries – including, for the first time, cases from Norway and the Philippines – 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.