Index

• Ad hoc arbitration 2, 15–16
• Administered arbitration see Institutional arbitration
• Advantages of arbitration 2, 16–21
• Agreement to arbitrate see Arbitration agreement
• Annulment of arbitral awards: in general 205–208;
  • grounds for annulment (in general) 216;
  • time-limits 208;
  • waiver of the right to seek annulment 208–209
• Answer (to a request for arbitration) 137–138
• Anti-suit injunction 86–87
• Appointment of arbitrators 7, 97–98, 100–116
• Arbitrability 1, 10–11, 51, 54–58, 229–230
• Arbitral award: in general 4, 173–174;
  • award by consent 178–180;
  • default award 177–178;
  • delivery 185–186;
  • final and partial awards 174–176;
  • requirements of validity 181–185
• Arbitral institutions see Institutional arbitration
• Arbitral order 173–174
• Arbitration agreement: in general 51–96;
  • consent 53–54;
  • incorporation by reference 8–9;
  • law applicable to the arbitration agreement 46–48;
  • nature 85–86;
  • pre-dispute agreement 51, 58–62;
  • post-dispute agreement 51, 62;
  • scope 82–85, 142, 218–221;
  • separability 46–48, 62–65;
  • validity 65–82, 142
• Arbitration clause see Arbitration agreement
• Arbitrators’ contract 122–123

• Bifurcation 146
• Binary clause 103–104

• Case management conference 142–144
• Cause of action estoppel see Res judicata
• Challenge of arbitral awards see Annulment of arbitral awards
• Challenge of arbitrators 99, 116–120
• Closing of the proceedings 153
• Competence-competence 67–71
• Composition of the tribunal 221–224
• Compromis see Arbitration agreement
• Concurring opinion 196–197
• Confidentiality 3, 21, 134–136
• Consumer arbitration 14
• Cost: in general 21–22;
  • advance on costs 147–149;
  • allocation of costs 191–192

• Decision on Jurisdiction see Award
• Declaratory relief 188–189
• Deliberations 154, 194–195
• Dissenting opinion 196
• Document production 156–158
• Domestic character of arbitration 2, 11–12
• Double exequatur 211–212, 234–235
• Drawbacks of arbitration 2
• Due process violations 221–229. 231–233

• Emergency arbitrator 138–139
• Enforceability 19–20
• Error on point of law 230–231
• European Convention on International Commercial Arbitration 212
• Exequatur see Recognition and enforcement
• Expedited arbitration 165–167
• Expertise 20, 24

• Finality 1, 9–10, 19
• Functus officio 174–176

• General terms and conditions 77–78
• Geneva Convention on the Execution of Foreign Arbitral Awards 211–212, 234
• Geneva Protocol on Arbitration Clauses 211

• IBA Guidelines on Conflicts of Interest in International Arbitration 114–116
• IBA Rules of Ethics for International Arbitrators 114–116
• IBA Rules on the Taking of Evidence in International Arbitration 129, 156
• Independence and impartiality 98, 111–120
• Institutional arbitration 2, 15–16, 33–36, 110–111, 119

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  Inter-American Convention on International Commercial Arbitration 212
• Interest 187–188
• Interim relief see Provisional (interim) relief
• International character of arbitration 2, 11–12
• Interviews of prospective arbitrators 116
• Issue estoppel see Res judicata

• Jurisdiction 22–23, 65–82, 217–218

• Lex arbitri 26, 30–33
• Liability of arbitrators 99, 123–124
• Litigation: comparison with arbitration 3;
  • preclusive effect of arbitration clause 7–9

• Mandatory rules 43–44
• Mediation 3
• Merits: choice of law agreement 36–44;
  • ex aequo et bono and amiable compositeur 42–43;
  • floating choice of law clauses 40;
  • law applicable to the merits 36–46;
  • multiple applicable laws 38–39;
  • split clause 39–40;
  • a-national rules 40–41
• Monetary compensation 186–187
• Multiparty proceedings 161–165

• Neutrality 17–18
• New York Convention see Recognition and enforcement
• Number of arbitrators 105–107

• Oral hearings 150–153
• Order see Arbitral order

• Party autonomy 1, 4–7, 36–44, 128–129
• Post-hearing submissions 153
• Power 23–24
• Provisional (interim) relief 139–142
• Public policy 43–44, 231–233
• Punitive damages 187

• Qualifications to serve as an arbitrator 109–110

• Recognition and enforcement: in general 205–206;
  • difference between recognition and enforcement 209–210;
  • law applicable to recognition and enforcement 211;
  • obligations arising from the New York Convention 211–213;
  • requirements under the New York Convention 213–216;
  • suspension of recognition and enforcement proceedings pending annulment proceedings 239
• Redfern schedule 158
• Remedies 186–191
• Removal of arbitrators 120
• Replacement of arbitrators 99
• Request for arbitration 137–138
• Res judicata 192–194

• Seat of arbitration 29–33, 132–134
• Selection of arbitrators see Appointment of arbitrators
• Separability see Arbitration agreement
• Separate opinion 196–197
• Setting aside see Annulment of arbitral awards
• Specific performance 189–190
• Speed 18–19
• State entities 2, 11–12
• Statement of claim 148–150
• Statement of defense 148–150
• State-State arbitration 14–15

• Terms of reference 144–146
• Third parties: in general 88–93, 129;
  • agency 88–89;
  • assignment 89;
  • group of companies 91–93;
  • piercing the corporate veil 90
• Truncated tribunal 121–122

• Witnesses 158–161