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5 – INTERPRETATION OF INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION AGREEMENTS

Under the New York Convention, other international arbitration instruments, and most national arbitration regimes, parties enjoy broad autonomy to draft international arbitration agreements in the fashion they desire. The parties’ autonomy inevitably produces a wide range of different arbitration agreements. Arbitration clauses can be very short (a few words) or . . . Read more

3 – INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION AGREEMENTS: BASIC ISSUES

It is elementary that international arbitration is consensual: without an agreement to arbitrate, of some sort, there can be no arbitration.1 At the same time, the terms of the parties’ arbitration agreement play a central role in defining the character of any arbitration, including the arbitral proceedings, and in producing . . . Read more