This course seeks to provide participants with in-depth knowledge and understanding of the law and practice of international commercial arbitration. It examines a broad range of legal and practical issues pertaining to arbitration agreements (effects, validity, pathological clauses, applicable law, separability and Kompetenz-Kompetenz), arbitrators (applicable requirements, appointment, challenge), arbitral proceedings (procedural rules, lex arbitri, taking of evidence, law applicable to the merits), and arbitral awards (form, reasons, enforcement, setting aside). It focuses on transnational legal instruments such as the UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration, the New York Arbitration Convention and other relevant treaties, as well as various soft law instruments that are generally recognized as representative of internationally accepted standards and practices. This course places particular emphasis on the discussion of case law and explores, from a comparative and transnational perspective, a broad spectrum of relevant judicial rulings and arbitral awards.
- Instructors: Davor Babic, Vladimir Pavic