Arbitration Law of Austria: Practice and Procedure
Stefan Riegler, Alexander Petsche, Alice Fremuth-Wolf, Martin Platte, Christoph Liebscher
Price: $160.00 1050 pages. 1 Hardcover Volume. Index. List of Authorities. Appendices. Published March 2007
ISBN-13: 978-1-933833-07-1 / ISBN-10: 1-933833-07-6
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About the book:Arbitration Law of Austria, with over 800 pages of commentary and analysis, provides the reader in a "one-stop-shop" manner with a concise but comprehensive tool for understanding and conducting arbitrations under the Austrian Arbitration Act and the Vienna Rules.
Austria has taken account of international developments and revised its law on arbitration. The new Arbitration Act, which is based on the UNCITRAL Model Law, entered into force on 1 July 2006. Arbitration Law of Austria: Practice and Procedure has been designed to be a reference book for arbitration practitioners and everyone who wants to familiarize themselves in depth with Austrian arbitration law and practice (including the "Vienna Rules"). It gives a concise introduction and provides a practical commentary to each section of the new Arbitration Act and each article of the Vienna Rules. Section by section the book analyses which case law rendered under the old regime still applies and, for the first time, summarises Austrian case law in English. In addition, five topics of particular interest are covered in detail: arbitration agreements and third parties; confidentiality in arbitration; arbitrators' liability, enforcement and recognition of arbitral awards, and arbitration and bankruptcy.
Praise for "Arbitration Law of Austria"
"This book gives a complete and fully up-to-date account of arbitration law and practice in Austria, to my knowledge, there is no other work in English which presents the arbitration process in Austria in such detail and depth."
-Prof. Emmanuel Gaillard, Partner and Head of Shearman & Sterling's international arbitration practice.
"An extremely valuable, comprehensive and authoritative resource for the international practitioner - particularly given Austria's current position as a major centre for the resolution of international disputes."
-Toby Landau, Essex Court Chambers
"The format of Arbitration Law of Austria is easy to follow, it is a thorough publication which provides any practitioner, novice or expert alike, with comprehensive and up-to-date information regarding international commercial arbitration in Austria. Furthermore, to the best of my knowledge this book for the first time contains a commentary on the new Vienna Rules. Moreover, I found particularly useful the wide range of topics and materials covered, such as the special chapters, the compilation of case law and the comprehensive annexes. I highly recommend Arbitration Law of Austria."
-Dr. Manfred Heider, Secretary General of the International Arbitral Centre of the Austrian Federation Economic Chamber
"Now that Austria has at last adopted a modern Arbitration Law, this book by five well known specialists will surely constitute an indispensable guide to this new law."
-Dr. Robert Briner, Chairman of the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce, Paris (1997-2006); Counsel, Lenz & Staehelin
"...The authors of Arbitration law of Austria represent a solid mixture of acknowledged experts and members of a new generation of arbitrators...The quality of the book proves that the pool of young Austrian lawyers may be viewed as capable arbitrators has gotten wider..."
-Prof. Karl Hempel, President of the Austrian Arbitration Association (2000-2003)
About the Authors:
Stefan Riegler is a member of the Dispute Resolution Group at Baker & McKenzie in Vienna. He was a partner of Wolf Theiss before joining the firm in 2005. He specializes in the field of dispute resolution, in particular in international commercial arbitration. Stefan Riegler graduated from the University of Vienna Law School, the School of International Arbitration and the London School of Economics and Political Science. He published numerous articles on the subject of arbitration, including the forthcoming book “Arbitration and Bankruptcy”. Stefan Riegler is co-founder and current chairman of YAAP (Young Austrian Arbitration Practitioners) and a member of the Austrian Arbitration Association (ArbAut), the German Institution of Arbitration (DIS) and the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR) Young & International.
Alexander Petsche heads Baker & McKenzie’s dispute resolution group in Vienna. He specialises in arbitration and distribution law, in particular franchising. Alexander Petsche is regularly appointed as arbitrator in ad-hoc and institutional arbitrations. He also represents parties before Austrian courts in matters relating to arbitration, including the challenge and enforcement of arbitral awards. In addition, he is an accredited business mediator. Alexander Petsche studied Law at the Universities of Vienna and Paris, and studied Business Administration at the University of Economics, Vienna, and the Lyon Graduate School of Business. He completed post-graduate studies at the College of Europe in Bruges. Alexander Petsche publishes regularly on international litigation and arbitration and has written more than 70 publications on various other business law topics.
Alice A. Fremuth-Wolf is arbitrator and mediator in Vienna, Austria. Having studied law at the University of Vienna and at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LLM), she served as an assistant at the Institute of Civil Procedural Law at the Law Faculty of Vienna University and worked as an associate with Wolf Theiss (Vienna) and Baker & McKenzie (Vienna) before opening her own law firm in 2004. She has acted as arbitrator and party-representative in international commercial arbitration proceedings in English and German and is also a qualified mediator. She has authored articles and books on arbitration and is co-editor of “Arbitration Law and Practice in Central and Eastern Europe”. She also lectures at the Law Faculty of Vienna University, coaching the team of Vienna University for the annual Willem C. Vis International Arbitration Moot. Besides being a founding member of the Young Austrian Arbitration Practitioners (YAAP), she is member of several international arbitration associations.
Martin Platte is a member of the Dispute Resolution Group at Baker & McKenzie in Vienna. He specializes in the field of dispute resolution, in particular in international commercial arbitration and sports-related disputes. He joined Baker & McKenzie in 2005 after having worked in the international arbitration group of Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw in London for two years. Martin Platte graduated from the University of Vienna Law School and received a degree in European law from the University of Leuven (Belgium). He obtained an LL.M. degree from the University of London (London School of Economics). Martin Platte published numerous articles on the subject of international commercial arbitration and three books on the topic, including “Enforcement of International Arbitration Awards – The New York Convention of 1958” and the forthcoming book “Guidelines to Anti-Doping Law”. Martin Platte is a member of the Austrian Arbitration Association (ArbAut), the German Institution of Arbitration (DIS) and the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR) Young & International.
Christoph Liebscher is head of arbitration of Wolf Theiss. Having obtained an MBA at Insead (Fontainebleau), he had worked in management positions in Germany, France, former Czechoslovakia, Poland, and other European countries before returning to the legal profession. He was and is involved in arbitrations as counsel and arbitrator under many jurisdictions including the Czech and the Slovak Republic, Hungary, France, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria, Romania, Uzbekistan, Germany, England, Switzerland, and Liechtenstein. He has gained more than 25 years of experience in domestic/international commercial arbitration and litigation in English, German and French. He has published numerous books and articles on arbitration and business law. Amongst others he is a member of the ICC International Court of Arbitration, of the ICC Commission on International Arbitration, of the LCIA. He is also the current president of the Austrian Arbitration Association. He is listed as arbitrator with international arbitral centers of several economic chambers in Central Europe.