International Commercial Arbitration

Franco Ferrari, Clarence D. Ashley Professor of Law and Director, Intesa Sanpaolo Center for Transnational Litigation, Arbitration, and Commercial Law, New York University School of Law, New York, US, Friedrich Rosenfeld, Partner, Hanefeld, Germany, Global Adjunct Professor, NYU Paris, France, and Honorary Professor, International Hellenic University, Thessaloniki, Greece, with Consultant Editor John Fellas, Full-time Arbitrator, Fellas Arbitration and Adjunct Professor, New York University, New York, US

• Contents: 1. Introduction to International Commercial Arbitration 2. The recognition of arbitration agreements 3. The principle of competence competence 4. The initiation of arbitration proceedings and the constitution of the arbitral tribunal 5. Procedure 6. Evidence 7. Complex arbitrations involving multiple tiers, contracts and parties 8. The award 9. The set-aside of arbitral awards 10. The New York Convention: introduction, scope, formal requirements, procedure 11. The New York Convention: the duty to recognize and enforce arbitral awards 12. The relevance of the post-award phase in the pre-award phase Index

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