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How To Find Treatises About International Commercial Arbitration

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Arbitration and award, International

Arbitration, International

Recommended keyword search:

international commercial arbitration

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Run a keyword search in BLS Library's catalog. Then, click the tab (near top of screen) to: WorldCat.

Sources That Provide Commentary and Texts of Cases (or Summaries of Cases)

Kluwer Arbitration (subscription database--in BLS Library's SARA catalog record, click: ACCESS ONLINE VERSION--(WOLTERS KLUWER).
This database includes conventions, model laws, laws, many legal treatises, journals, cases and arbitral awards. It provides material from Wolters Kluwer's Yearbook: Commercial Arbitration (containing selected cases and arbitral awards) and ICCA International Handbook on Commercial Arbitration (containing reports about arbitration developments in specific countries and texts of countries’ arbitration laws).

Restatement of the U.S. Law of International Commercial and Investor–State Arbitration (drafts + case citations to drafts are available in subscription database Westlaw)
This is an aid to understanding U.S. case law. The source's pull-down menu includes: Case Citations to Drafts [by chapter].

Sources About United Nations Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards

Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards (2023) by Franco Ferrari, Friedrich Rosenfeld & Charles T. Kotuby
Excerpt from publisher's description: "Framing the Convention as a uniform law instrument, the book analyses case law from major arbitration jurisdictions to explain its scope of application, the duty to recognize arbitral agreements and awards as well as their limitations, and the procedure and formal requirements for enforcing arbitral awards."
Available as an ebook.
Autonomous Versus Domestic Concepts under the New York Convention (2021) by Franco Ferrari & Friedrich Rosenfeld, eds.
Available in subscription Kluwer Arbitration database.
60 Years of the New York Convention: Key Issues and Future Challenges (2019) by Katia Fach Gomez & Ana Mercedes López Rodríguez
Available in subscription Kluwer Arbitration database.
Third-Party Effects of Arbitral Awards: Res Judicata Against Privies, Non-Mutual Preclusion and Factual Effects (2019) by Maximilian Pika
Available in subscription Kluwer Arbitration database.
Guide on the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards (2017) by Uncitral Secretariat, Emmanuel Gaillard, ed. & George A. Bermann, ed.
The 1958 New York Convention in Action (2016) by Marike R. P. Paulsson, ed.
Available in subscription Kluwer Arbitration database.
The New York Convention: Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards of 10 June 1958: Commentary (2012) by Reinmar Wolff & Christian Borris
Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards: A Global Commentary on the New York Convention (2010) by Herbert Kronke et al.
Also available in subscription Kluwer Arbitration database.
Enforcement of Arbitration Agreements and International Arbitral Awards: The New York Convention 1958 in Practice (2008) by Emmanuel Gaillard & Domenico di Pietro, eds.
The New York Arbitration Convention of 1958 (1981) by Albert J. Van den Berg
This is a classic commentary about applying and enforcing the New York Arbitration Convention.

Source About Inter-American Convention on International Commercial Arbitration

The Panama Convention and Its Implementation under the Federal Arbitration Act (2002) by John P. Bowman

Sources About UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration

UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration: A Commentary (2020) by Ilias Bantekas et al.
International Commercial Arbitration and Mediation in UNCITRAL Model Law Jurisdictions (2019) by Peter Binder
Available in subscription Kluwer Arbitration database.
A Guide to the 2006 Amendments to the UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration: Legislative History and Commentary (2015) by Howard M. Holtzmann
The UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration: 25 Years (2010) by Association for International Arbitration Staff, ed.

Sources About International Arbitration

Deference in International Commercial Arbitration: The Shared System of Control in International Commercial Arbitration by Franco Ferrari & Friedrich Rosenfeld, eds.
Publication Date: 2023
Available in subscription Kluwer Arbitration database.
Overriding Mandatory Rules and Compliance in International Arbitration (2023) by Bachir Georges Affaki & Vladimir Khvalei, eds.
Available in subscription Kluwer Arbitration database.
Redfern and Hunter on International Arbitration (2023) by Nigel Blackaby, Constantine Partasides & Alan Redfern
Available in subscription Kluwer Arbitration database.
Handbook of Evidence in International Commercial Arbitration (2022) by Franco Ferrari & Friedrich Rosenfeld, eds.
Available in subscription Kluwer Arbitration database.
International Arbitration in Times of Economic Nationalism (2022) by Björn Arp & Rodrigo Polanco, eds.
Available in subscription Kluwer Arbitration database.
International Arbitration: Law and Practice (3d ed. 2021) by Gary B. Born
Available in subscription Kluwer Arbitration database.
International Arbitration and Forum Selection Agreements, Drafting and Enforcing (2021) by Gary B. Born
Available in subscription Kluwer Arbitration database. Provides examples of nearly 200 international arbitration and forum selection clauses.
International Commercial Arbitration (2020) by Gary B. Born
Comprehensive, respected treatise available in subscription Kluwer Arbitration database.
International Commercial Arbitration: A Comparative Introduction (2021) by Franco Ferrari, Friedrich Rosenfeld & John Fellas
International Commercial Arbitration: International Conventions, Country Reports and Comparative Analysis: A Handbook (2021) by Stephan Balthasar
"Soft Law" in International Commercial Arbitration (2021) by Felix Dasser
Available as an e-book.
Access to Justice in Arbitration: Concept, Context and Practice (2020) by Leonardo de Oliveira & Sara Hourani, eds.
Available in subscription Kluwer Arbitration database.
Complex Arbitrations (2020) by Bernard Hanotiau
Available in subscription Kluwer Arbitration database.
Due Process As a Limit to Discretion in International Commercial Arbitration (2020) by Franco Ferrari et al. eds.
Available in subscription Kluwer Arbitration database.
International Arbitration and the COVID-19 Revolution (2020) by Maxi Scherer et al., eds.
Available in subscription Kluwer Arbitration database.
Conflict of Laws in International Commercial Arbitration (2019) by Franco Ferrari & Stefan Kröll, eds.
Transnational Litigation and Commercial Arbitration: An Analysis of American, European and International Law (2011) by Joseph M. Lookofsky & Ketilbjørn Hertz
Valuation for Arbitration: Compensation Standards, Valuation Methods and Expert Evidence (2008) by Mark Kantor
Also available in subscription Kluwer Arbitration database.
Evaluation of Damages in International Arbitration (2006) by Yves Derains & Richard H. Kreindler, eds.
Available in subscription Kluwer Arbitration database.
Comparative International Commercial Arbitration (2003) by Julian D.M. Lew, Loukas A. Mistelis & Stefan M. Kröll
Also available in subscription Kluwer Arbitration database. Dr. Strong describes this source as an excellent treatise.
Fouchard, Gaillard, Goldman on International Commercial Arbitration (1999) by Emmanual Gaillard & John Savage, eds.
Also available in subscription Kluwer Aribtration database. Dr. Strong describes this source as an excellent treatise.

U.S.-Focused Arbitration Sources

Commercial Arbitration (2010-) by Thomas H. Oehmke & Joan M. Brovins
Available in Westlaw database.
Domke on Commercial Arbitration (2010-) by Martin Domke
Available in Westlaw database.
The Law and Practice of United States Arbitration (2018) by Thomas E. Carbonneau
International Commercial Arbitration in New York (2016) by James H. Carter & John Fellas, eds.

Sources About Investment Arbitration

In addition to the treatises below, publicly accessible Investment Treaty Arbitration database provides agreements, awards and cases.

Beyond Consent: Revisiting Jurisdiction in Investment Treaty Arbitration (2021) by Relja Radović
In BLS Library's catalog record, BLS patrons can click: ACCESS ONLINE VERSION-EBC.
International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) (2020) by Yarik Kryvoi
Available in subscription Kluwer Arbitration database.
Protection of Legitimate Expectations in Investment Treaty Arbitration: A Theory of Detrimental Reliance (2019) by Teerawat Wongkaew
In BLS Library's catalog record, BLS patrons can click: ACCESS ONLINE VERSION-EBC.
The Right of States to Regulate in International Investment Law (2019) by Yulia Levashova
Available in subscription Kluwer Arbitration database.
Arbitration under International Investment Agreements (2018) by Katia Yannaca-Small, ed.
Trade Agreements, Investment Protection and Dispute Settlement in Latin America (2018) by M. Belén Olmos Giupponi
Available in subscription Kluwer Arbitration database.
Arbitral Awards as Investments: Treaty Interpretation and the Dynamics of International Investment Law (2016) by Maximilian Clasmeier
Available in subscription Kluwer Arbitration database.
Compensation and Restitution in Investor-State Arbitration Principles and Practice (2011) by Borzu Sabahi
Available off campus to BLS patrons. In BLS Library's catalog record, click: ACCESS ONLINE VERSION-OXFORD.
Evolution in Investment Treaty Law and Arbitration (2011) by Chester Brown & Kate Miles, eds.
The Impact of Investment Treaties on Contracts Between Host States and Foreign Investors (2011) by Jan Ole Voss
Protecting Investment in Services: Investor-State Arbitration versus WTO Dispute Settlement (2011) by Martin Molinuevo
Available in subscription Kluwer Arbitration database.
Backlash Against Investment Arbitration (2010) by Michael Waibel et al., eds.
Available in subscription Kluwer Arbitration database.
Guide to ICSID Arbitration (2d ed. 2010) by Lucy Reed, Jan Paulsson & Nigel Blackaby
Available in subscription Kluwer Arbitration database.