{"title":"The Impact of Covid on International Disputes","authors":"Tanya Landon, Katie von der Weid","doi":"10.1163/9789004514836","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004514836","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37425,"journal":{"name":"Arbitration International","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44901289","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tribunal secretaries re-examined—comparative legal framework, best practices, and terms of appointment","authors":"Hans-Patrick Schroeder, Wolfgang Junge","doi":"10.1093/arbint/aiac004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/arbint/aiac004","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The tribunal secretary has had a short but stellar career so far. Within 20 years of first being recognized as a wide-spread and potentially problematic phenomenon in international arbitration, it has since been the object of decisions in various jurisdictions, institutional rules, and extensive academic analysis. The authors aim to sort through the different views in an effort to suggest best practices and model terms of appointment.","PeriodicalId":37425,"journal":{"name":"Arbitration International","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45655053","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Counterclaims and legitimacy in investment treaty arbitration","authors":"Paul E Trinel","doi":"10.1093/arbint/aiac005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/arbint/aiac005","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Investor-State dispute resolution (ISDS) is currently facing a crisis of legitimacy, notably because of its perceived asymmetry as well as the difficulties it is faced with when trying to reconcile investor rights with human rights. This article wishes to explore the possibility for respondent States to present counterclaims to investment arbitral tribunals as a way of dealing with these criticisms. Even though some rare awards have entertained them favourably, the majority of arbitral tribunals have declined to hear counterclaims. The author, therefore, examines the obstacles existing in investment case law to the admissibility of counterclaims, both from a procedural as well as from a substantive point of view. The analysis then focuses on the beneficial and adverse consequences that would stem from the hypothetical adoption of a set of rules more favorable to the filing of counterclaims by respondent States in investment arbitration. The essay concludes that such an adoption would be warranted and reinstitute a measure of procedural fairness in a framework that has been suffering from a perception of imbalance and a lack of legitimacy.","PeriodicalId":37425,"journal":{"name":"Arbitration International","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42312981","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Arbitrating financial disputes—are they different and what lies ahead?","authors":"W. Blair, Gökçe Uyar, Grace Cheng, Yang Zhao","doi":"10.1093/arbint/aiac001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/arbint/aiac001","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The subject of this article is arbitrating financial disputes that arise from financings and financial products, usually in the international context, and typically of higher value. The article looks at how the subject has developed in China’s financial markets, as well as those of the West. It concludes that some financial disputes do have different characteristics from other commercial disputes, depending on the type of dispute in question. Though financial transactions often provide for the courts to have jurisdiction, particularly the courts of major financial centres, arbitration is in fact also widely used in financial disputes. An important consideration for financial institutions is the recent and widespread introduction of rules as to ‘early determination’ by many arbitral institutions. A potentiality of these is to make arbitration more ‘finance friendly’ for financial institutions, and their counterparties, but there remains a reluctance on the part of tribunals to use them. Some of the principal components of the practical application of ‘early determination’ provisions are clarified in the article. Finally, some views are offered on what may lie ahead for the arbitration of financial disputes, particularly in the field of technology and green finance.","PeriodicalId":37425,"journal":{"name":"Arbitration International","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43508032","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Determining the applicable law to the arbitration agreement in the absence of a choice of law clause under Hong Kong Law: a call for renewed internationalism","authors":"Filip Nordlund","doi":"10.1093/arbint/aiac002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/arbint/aiac002","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The courts of Hong Kong have determined the governing law of the underlying contract to indicate an express, implied and no choice of the law applicable to the arbitration agreement. In determining the applicable law, the courts made no references to the New York Convention despite the fact that the provisions under Hong Kong arbitration law pursuant to which the foregoing determinations were made are based on provisions in the New York Convention and ought to be applied in conformity with the same. This article argues that the courts of Hong Kong ought to adopt the New York Convention’s conflict of laws rules in Article V(1)(a) to determine the governing law of arbitration agreements in pre- and post-award proceedings in order to enhance the alignment of Hong Kong law with the international body of arbitration law.","PeriodicalId":37425,"journal":{"name":"Arbitration International","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47212902","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Function of Equity in International Law, by Catharine Titi, published by Oxford University Press (2021)","authors":"R. Polanco","doi":"10.1093/arbint/aiab037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/arbint/aiab037","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37425,"journal":{"name":"Arbitration International","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42372954","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Between rags and riches: rethinking security for costs in international commercial arbitration","authors":"Simone Camilleri","doi":"10.1093/arbint/aiab036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/arbint/aiab036","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article assesses the traditional approach adopted to making an order of security for costs in international arbitration, which focuses almost exclusively on the financial standing of the claimant. The article argues that this approach is inappropriate, and has the potential to undermine the purpose of the remedy itself; namely, to protect a respondent who has been dragged into an arbitration against his will, and may subsequently struggle to enforce a costs award against the claimant if he is successful in due course. The author therefore argues that the financial position of the respondent—and the impact of the proceedings on that respondent—should be hardwired into the assessment undertaken by arbitral tribunals when considering whether to order the claimant to provide security for the respondent’s costs.","PeriodicalId":37425,"journal":{"name":"Arbitration International","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47253964","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Delays Expected but Duration of Delays Unpredictable: Causes, Types, and Symptoms of Procedural Applications in Investment Arbitration","authors":"J. Chaisse","doi":"10.1093/arbint/aiab035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/arbint/aiab035","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Delays are becoming a common phenomenon in international investment arbitration and challenging the conventional belief that it is a time-effective mode of dispute resolution. These delays, majorly stemming from interim procedural applications, are known to arise due to the different interests and types of stakeholders involved in the process. This article provides an empirical analysis of such arbitration proceedings to cull out the types, nature, and effects of delay tactics in such proceedings. This article identifies three types of applications that play an increasing role in investment arbitration, namely, applications for ‘security for costs’, applications for disclosure of third-party funding, and the objections of manifest lack of legal merit of claims. Such delays can particularly become a cause of concern for investment arbitration as they have impacts beyond those which are on the parties involved.","PeriodicalId":37425,"journal":{"name":"Arbitration International","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49094913","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Proper characterisation of the parol evidence rule and its applicability in international arbitration","authors":"Darius Chan, Louis Lau Yi Hang","doi":"10.1093/arbint/aiab029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/arbint/aiab029","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Most arbitral statutes and institutional rules give great latitude to tribunals on the admissibility of evidence, and do not mandate application of domestic rules of evidence. In common law jurisdictions where the parol evidence rule applies, the issue that arises is whether the parol evidence rule is necessarily a procedural rule of evidence which tribunals are not bound to apply, especially in jurisdictions which have codified the rule under domestic evidence legislation. Notwithstanding any codification, this article argues that the parol evidence rule at common law is a substantive rule of contractual interpretation that should be applied as part of the lex contractus in international arbitration proceedings. Faithful application of the parol evidence rule as a substantive rule of contractual interpretation ensures that adjudicators arrive at the same interpretation on the same set of facts, thereby promoting uniformity, predictability, and consistency, regardless of the mode of dispute resolution.","PeriodicalId":37425,"journal":{"name":"Arbitration International","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48252304","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}