Scott Rau, Alan Keywords: Arbitration | International arbitration | International commercial arbitration | Domestic competence ABSTRACT It is understood that the “jurisdiction” of an arbitral tribunal rests on the parties' consent to submit to a binding arbitration determination. In this course, Alan Scott Rau deals with the ultimate question running across our law of arbitration, which is the allocation of responsibility between State courts and arbitral tribunals. Every modern regime of arbitration takes the …

Boele-Woelki, Katharina Keywords: Party autonomy | Choice of law | International contracts | Private international law | International commercial arbitration | Trials | Mots clefs: ABSTRACT This course focuses on party autonomy in the context of the applicable law issued in international commercial contracts. It goes through explaining the Hague Principles on Choice of Law in International Commercial Contracts, finalized in 2013, and how they are used as a recent source on the matter. This reflection leads to the questio…

A. Kostin, Alexey Keywords: International commercial arbitration | Russian Federation [p11] A. Kostin, Alexey BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE [p15] Alexey Alexandrovich Kostin, born 24 January 1953 in Lithuania (Taurage). Head of the Private International and Civil Law Department of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (University) at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (since 2004). Chairman of the International Commercial Arbitration Court (since 2010) and the Maritime Arbitration Commission (si…

Hobér, Kaj Keywords: Res iudicata | Concurrent proceedings | Law of civil procedure | Arbitration | International commercial arbitration | Private international law | Mots clefs: ABSTRACT The objective of these lectures is to identify situations where res judicata and lis pendens issues may arise in international arbitrations, as well as to take stock of, and to discuss, what arbitral tribunals actually do with respect to the principles of res judicata and lis pendens. After an introduction, the Chapter II discusses res judicata and lis pendens in a number of national jurisdicti…

Hess, Burkhard Keywords: International dispute settlement | International arbitration | International commercial arbitration | States | Individuals | Private enforcement ABSTRACT Almost every legal system knows the distinction between private and public law. This distinction is primarily found in continental law systems, but it is not unknown in the common law world. In this course, Burkhard Hess focuses on the dispute between the public and the private sectors. The author explains that both the areas of public and …

Pougoué, Paul-Gérard Keywords: Organization for the Harmonization of Business Law in Africa | Commercial law | Unification of law | International commercial arbitration | Commercial arbitration | Mots clefs: ABSTRACT OHADA has enabled the establishment of a general framework for the legal order of arbitration in its member countries. This involves a unification of the legal regime of arbitration as well as the desire to simplify the field of arbitration, in terms of objective arbitrability (contractual nature of the dispute,…

A. Bermann, George Keywords: International commercial arbitration | Private international law | Mots clefs: ABSTRACT The course aims to identify international arbitration’s place within the discipline of private international law, and vice versa. It follows by covering the different types of arbitral jurisdiction: personal jurisdiction, subject matter jurisdiction, jurisdiction by consent, known as arbitration agreements, and principles concerning the jurisdiction to determine arbitral jurisdiction. As arbitra…

Cordero-Moss, Giuditta Keywords: Party autonomy | International contracts | International commercial arbitration | Mots clefs: ABSTRACT This course aims to examine the limitations of party autonomy in international commercial arbitration, as parties have a central role in commercial arbitration. The idea is that a “closed circuit” made only of the rules the parties agreed on is not always possible, and other sources can impact the arbitration, thus the autonomy of the parties. First, external restrictions exist…

M. De Boer, Th. Keywords: International commercial arbitration | International arbitration | Choice of law | Lex fori | International law of procedure | Mots clefs: ABSTRACT In arbitration, choice-of-law issues are more complicated than they are in ordinary litigation, as an arbitral tribunal is not bound to the lex fori of the state in which it sits. This lack of obligation to a specific set of national choice of law rules, this freedom of disposition, can lead the tribunal to apply any rule of law that it would deem “appropriate”. The author …

Jacquet, Jean-Michel Keywords: International commercial arbitration | Private international law [p11] Jacquet, Jean-Michel NOTICE BIOGRAPHIQUE [p14] Jean-Michel Jacquet, né le 17 novembre 1945 à Montbéliard (France). Licence et doctorat en droit Université Robert-Schuman de Strasbourg ; diplôme d’études approfondies, Université de Paris II Panthéon-Assas ; professeur agrégé des facultés de droit ; professeur détaché à l’Université Cheikh-Anta-Diop de Dakar (1983-1990) ; professeur à l’Université des sciences sociales de …

Daniel Cooper and Christopher Kuner Keywords: Data protection | Personal data | Privacy | Alternative dispute resolution | International commercial arbitration | International dispute settlement | Human rights | Mots clefs: ABSTRACT With the internet and the globalized nature of commerce and communication, we have seen the development of data protection law and international dispute resolution. Indeed, some concepts specific to data protection, such as privacy, personal or sensitive data, localization, lead to de the developme…

Chedly, Lotfi Keywords: International commercial arbitration | Effectiveness [p11] NOTICE BIOGRAPHIQUE [p22] Lotfi Chedly, né le 16 mai 1968 à Nabeul (Tunisie). Professorat de l’enseignement supérieur de droit privé et sciences criminelles session 2008 ; agrégation en droit privé et sciences criminelles session 2003 (major de Tunisie) ; habilitation à diriger les recherches universitaires : de la faculté des sciences juridiques, en novembre 2002 ; doctorat en sciences juridiques, 2001, mention : très honorable, avec …