Many cases of injury to multinational companies which would formerly have been pursued as a diplomatic claim by the national State of the company are now resolved by arbitration directly between the company and the respondent State. In this sense, international commercial arbitration can be seen as a natural extension of inter-State dispute settlement procedures, of great and growing importance. This course will examine the law and practice relating to the arbitral process and recognition and enforcement of arbitral awards. Reference will be made to the Model Arbitral Rules and the case law emanating from a number of Arbitral Bodies and Tribunals such as the ICC, UNCITRAL, ICSID and to the decisions of ad-hoc arbitral tribunals.
Prerequisite or corequisite: LAWS2081 Public International Law or equivalent.