The arbitration award is the act by which the arbitration procedure ends, having a double nature, contractual and jurisdictional. Defining the arbitration award is difficult as the international instruments and most regulations issued by the arbitral institutions do not contain such a...

The action for annulment appears to be the unique means of appealing that can be exercised against the arbitration award, similar in content and effects to the recourse against judgments, though being not a devolutive appeal. As the legal nature of this means of appeal is concerned, it is...