The Developing World of Arbitration studies the recent emergence of Asia Pacific jurisdictions as regional or international arbitration centres, thanks to various reform efforts and initiatives. This ...book provides an up-to-date and comprehensive analysis of the ways in which arbitration law and practice have recently been reformed in Asia Pacific jurisdictions. Leading contributors across the Asia Pacific region analyse twelve major jurisdictions representing varying patterns and degrees of development, whether driven from top down, bottom up, or by some hybrid impetus. Setting the arbitration systems and reforms of each investigated jurisdiction in the context of its economic, political, and judicial dynamics, this book presents, for the first-time, a cross-jurisdiction comparative and contextual study of the developing world of arbitration in the Asia Pacific and contributes to comparative international arbitration literature from an Eastern perspective. It also aims to identify an Asia Pacific model of arbitration modernisation, one that may be distinct from a Western model, and predicts future trajectories of development and challenge in light of the ever increasing competition between Eastern- and Western-based arbitration centres. This edited collection will be an invaluable addition to the libraries of academics and practitioners in the field of international commercial arbitration.
In this study, the forms, advantages and procedure of arbitration are presented, as an alternative method of dispute resolution that the parties can resort to by virtue of the principle of ...availability. At the same time, the particularities of the judgment of the essentially jurisdictional act represented by the arbitral award, as well as the solutions pronounced by the courts in the appeal of the annulment action, are highlighted. By exposing the advantages of arbitration, the author aims to highlight the fact that this is an extremely viable way of resolving disputes, which the parties should resort to with priority over state justice in matters permitted by law, with great confidence and conviction that the disputes will be resolved in a manner that most faithfully corresponds to their interests.
Public health measures taken by States have been subject to mounting arbitration legal challenges. These challenges resulted in an argument that investment agreements in general and the prevalence of ...the Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) mechanism, in particular, may force governments to refrain from introducing new legislative or policy measures due to a fear that the measures could be contested by investors. This situation, a fear to adopt legislative and similar other measures, is often referred to as “regulatory chill.” Recent arbitration cases show, however, that some of the cases involving pharmaceutical and similar other companies have been decided in favor of State Parties to the ISDS. In this regard, the legal claims initiated by Eli Lilly against the Government of Canada or the arbitration claims brought by Philip Morris against the Government of Australia and Uruguay can be cases in point. Due to these recent cases, some scholars have argued that the ISDS decisions (such as Eli Lilly and Government of Canada) demonstrate that regulatory chill may not be States’ concern anymore.
This paper examines the obligations of State Parties to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR or Covenant) to ensure access to affordable health technologies (medicines, vaccines, etc.) and the likelihood of investment agreements to result in a “regulatory chill” that hinders the realization of the obligations. In order to do so, the paper takes the TPP’s (now CPTPP) investment chapter as a case in point.
El presente artículo tiene como propósito analizar el alcance del pacto arbitral en el régimen societario colombiano, específicamente, en cómo hacer extensiva la cláusula compromisoria a las ...controversias con administradores sociales. La naturaleza del documento es de reflexión, su objetivo es presentar los resultados de una investigación desde una perspectiva analítica e interpretativa, acerca de la aplicación de la cláusula compromisoria a los conflictos suscitados con administradores sociales. Se emplearon los siguientes recursos metodológicos: en primer lugar, se realizó una revisión de literatura con el fin de analizar desde un punto de vista doctrinal y normativo el concepto del pacto arbitral y su aplicación en el contrato social. Posteriormente, se realizó un análisis de los pronunciamientos de la Delegatura de Procedimientos Mercantiles de la Superintendencia de Sociedades sobre la extensión del pacto arbitral a los administradores. Por último, se plantearon los argumentos que justifican la imposibilidad de aplicar la cláusula compromisoria a los administradores sin su consentimiento expreso.
En este artículo se analiza el proceso de instrucción de las causas resueltas a través de un arbitraje. Tras la firma del compromiso, los mediadores propuestos por las partes inician una labor de ...investigación que debe conducirles a elaborar una sentencia, acto que cierra el arbitraje. A pesar de la importancia de este momento procesal en el desarrollo de la institución arbitral, los Fueros de Valencia no regulan las tareas que deben llevar a cabo los mediadores ni el tiempo que pueden dedicarles. Del mismo modo, en la práctica cotidiana tampoco existe el hábito de dejar constancia escrita de la actuación de los árbitros entre la rúbrica del compromiso y la publicación de la sentencia. Aún así, es posible conocer las labores que realizan los mediadores gracias a la información contenida en estos dos documentos –compromiso y sentencia–, que muestran la existencia de tres fases bien diferenciadas. Así pues, nuestra intención es analizar estas tres etapas de investigación, análisis y decisión de los litigios sometidos a un arbitraje y, para ello, nuestra atención se centrará en el cuerpo documental producido por los miembros de las diferentes clases sociales de las comarcas de Els Ports y El Maestrat durante los siglos XIII y XIV.
With little warning, COVID-19 quickly escalated into a generational crisis, creating sustained havoc seen perhaps only in past cases of war, attack, and natural disasters. In the bedlam of the early ...months, health, science, political, and economic communities were hit with sudden force, required to quickly shift and rearrange the normal order of work. In arbitration, leaders took imperfect information to make dramatic decisions. In process and procedure, arbitral institutions, arbitrators, legal counsel, and clients were swept into this turmoil. In some cases, bold initiatives, still in design and testing, were quickly put into service, upsetting norms and traditions and the very notions of traditional process. The Impact of COVID on International Disputes includes contributions from legal practitioners and academics, takes a fresh look at issues addressed in international arbitration during the COVID-19 pandemic, gathering best practices, additional perspective and predictions based on current practices that will help parties, legal counsel and arbitrators in the future.
In Beyond Consent: Revisiting Jurisdiction in Investment Treaty Arbitration, Relja Radović investigates the development of jurisdictional rules by arbitral tribunals, against the conventional wisdom ...that the jurisdiction of arbitral tribunals is governed by party consent.
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