Essays on International Arbitration

Price: $125.00 600 pages. 1 Hardcover Volume. Appendices. Index. Published November 2005.
ISBN-13: 978-1-929446-90-2 / ISBN-10: 1-929446-90-X

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1.         History and Development of Interstate Arbitration

1.1       Introduction      

1.2       The Jay Treaty Arbitrations (1794)  

1.3       Post Jay Treaty Arbitrations (1795–1870)     

1.4       The Alabama Claims Arbitration        

1.5       The last decades of the 19th century (1875–1899)     

1.6       The Hague Peace Conferences and beyond (1899–1920)     

1.7       The Treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations (1920–1940)   

1.8       Post Second World War Arbitrations and Developments   

1.9       Concluding Remarks     

2.         Choice of Law by the Parties in Interstate Arbitration        

2.1        Party Autonomy in interstate arbitration        

2.2        Party Autonomy and the International Court of Justice          

2.3        Unfettered party autonomy criticised           

2.4        The rationale of party autonomy

2.5        The obligation to respect party autonomy         

2.6        Restrictions on party autonomy         

3.          Extinctive Prescription and Public International Law      

3.1        Introduction      

3.2        Does extinctive Prescription exist under Public International Law?

3.3        Opinions of writers       

3.4        Decisions rendered by international tribunals           

3.5        The Rationale Underlying Extinctive Prescription in International Law      

3.6        When is the Principle of Extinctive Prescription Applicable?       

3.7        Extinctive Prescription distinguished     

3.8        Is Extinctive Prescription Procedural or Substantive in Nature?

3.9        Municipal Statutes of Limitation and Extinctive Prescription under Public International Law      

3.10       Extinctive Prescription and ius cogens  

3.11       Summary and Concluding Remarks          

4.          Ownership of the Oil and Gas Resources in the Caspian Sea: Problems and Solutions –             International Arbitration and Contractual Clauses

4.1        Introduction      

4.2        The Legal Status of the Caspian Sea: Sea or Lake – what difference does it make?           

4.3        International arbitration is one possible solution.           

4.4        Why arbitration?       

4.5        Is arbitration realistic?           

4.6        Proposed Arbitration Agreement       

4.7        Contractual approaches to reducing the political risk      

5.          Arbitration involving states   

5.1        Introduction      

5.2        State Immunity – old Wine in new Bottles?

5.3        Confidentiality v. Publicity           

5.4        The growing Importance of Public International Law      

6.          Investment Arbitration in Eastern Europe: Recent Cases on Expropriation    

6.1        Introduction      

6.2        Expropriation    

6.3        Current state of International Law with respect to Expropriation    

6.4        The Minimum International Standard          

6.5        Bilateral Investment Protection Treaties

6.6        The Sedelmayer Case    

6.7        The 1998 Financial Crisis in Russia 

6.8        The Land Use Permit Case    

6.9        The SwemBalt Case 

6.10      Golden Shares in Russian Companies       

6.11      The Estonian Bank Licence Case    

6.12      The Lauder Cases    

6.13      The Energy Charter Treaty  

6.14      The First ECT Arbitral Award   

6.15      Concluding remarks      

7.          The First Energy Charter Treaty Arbitral Award   

7.1        Introduction      

7.2        The Dispute in a Nutshell

7.3        The Arguments        

7.4        The conclusions of the Arbitral Tribunal

7.5        The key legal issues       

7.6        Concluding remarks      

8.          Arbitration Reform in Sweden

8.1        Introduction      

8.2        The Arbitration Agreement       

8.3        The Arbitrators        

8.4        The Procedure         

8.5        The Award  

8.6        Finality and Enforceability of Arbitral Awards 

9.          Advocacy in International Commercial Arbitration: Sweden

9.1        Introduction      

9.2        General Principles of Swedish Judicial Procedure         

9.3        Swedish Arbitration Procedure         

9.4        Written Submissions     

9.5         Evidence         

9.6        Production of Documents       

9.7        Hearing of Witnesses     

9.8        Hearing of Experts         

9.9        Inspection of the Subject Matter of the Dispute   

APPENDICES

Appendix 1

Joint Statement of the Russian Federation and the Islamic Republic of Iran on the Legal Status
of the Caspian Sea      

Appendix 2

Agreement between the Russian Federation, the Azerbaijani Republic and the Republic of Kazakhstan
on the Point of Intersection of the Lines Delimiting Adjacent Areas of the Caspian Seabed

Appendix 3

Agreement between the Russian Federation and the Republic of Kazakhstan on delimitation of the seabed
in the northern part of the Caspian Sea for the exercise of their sovereign rights to use the subsurface resources

Appendix 4

Protocol to the Agreement between the Russian Federation and the Republic of Kazakhstan on
delimitation of the seabed in the northern part of the Caspian Sea for the exercise of their sovereign rights
to use the subsurface resources of 6 July 1998

Appendix 5

Agreement between the Russian Federation and the Azerbaijani Republic on Delimitation of
Adjacent Areas of the Caspian Seabed

Appendix 6

Agreement between the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Azerbaijani Republic on delimitation of the Caspian
seabed between the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Azerbaijani Republic           

Appendix 7

The Swedish Arbitration Act of 1999 (SFS 1999:116)        

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