This article presents a cross cultural examination of how international arbitrators in East Asian and Western countries view the goal of settlement in international arbitration. The result of a 115 person survey and 64 follow up interviews shed light on the underlying cultural attitudes and...

In light of the recent global financial crisis of 2008, this article critically compares how China's national arbitration commissions and local courts are responding to new challenges brought about by an increase in the number of banking related disputes. Drawing on comparative case analysis,...

The United States largely relies on a system of arbitration to handle retail consumer financial disputes. This approach has undergone significant challenge in recent years particularly in light of recent abuses of consumer credit arbitration mechanisms. This paper reports on the results of a...

The United States largely relies on a system of arbitration to handle retail consumer financial disputes. This approach has undergone significant challenges in recent years particularly in light of recent abuses of consumer credit arbitration mechanisms. This paper reports on the result of a...

Appraises the domestication and implementation, by states, of Article 23 of the UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration regarding the scope and contents statements of claim and defence, and their amendments, in arbitral proceedings

Appraises the domestication and implementation, by states, of Article 17I of the UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration relating to the grounds for refusal of recognition or enforcement of interim arbitral awards

Evaluates the domestication and application, by states, of Article 17G of the UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration in respect to the award of damages and costs for interim measures and preliminary orders

Mounting pubic interest concerns associated with investor-state arbitration have influenced the drafting of contemporary investment treaties including the requirement for transparency. Investor-state mediation is nevertheless a pre-arbitration dispute resolution method that if successful,...

Alongside a growing recognition that the traditional territorialist theory is limited in its ability to deal with intensifying cross-border dealings, a pluralistic converging of a multiplicity of legal orders (including domestic) to ensure the efficacy of cross-border commercial law is emerging....