KDEC 2185 - International Commercial Arbitration

The course offers an introduction to international commercial arbitration. Its main purpose is to discuss the interactions and tensions between State power and the power of private parties in relation to the regulation and functioning of international arbitration throughout its main characteristics: arbitrability, scope of the arbitration agreement, jurisdiction of arbitrators (compared to jurisdiction of state courts), law applicable to the arbitral proceedings, law applicable to the merits, challenge and enforcement of arbitral awards. Language of instruction : English (some documents in French).
Karolina ROZYCKA,Diego FERNANDEZ ARROYO
Séminaire
English
See previous item.
Contract Law.
Autumn 2025-2026
Active involvement (oral interventions, individual reaction papers and collective elaboration of an arbitral award): 60%. Final oral exam (individual): 40%.
Interactive seminar.
Nigel Blackaby, Martin Hunter, Constantine Partasides & Alan Redfern, Redfern and Hunter on International Arbitration, 7th ed (Oxford University Press, 2022)
Gary Born, International Commercial Arbitration, 3th ed (Kluwer Law International, 2020)
Emmanuel Gaillard, Legal Theory of International Arbitration (Martinus Nijhoff, 2010)
George A Bermann, International Arbitration and Private International Law (Hague Academy of International Law, Martinus Nijhoff, 2017)
George A Bermann (ed.), Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards, The Interpretation and Application of the New York Convention by National Courts (Ius Comparatum Series, International Academy of Comparative Law, Springer, 2017)
Gary Born, International Arbitration Cases and Materials, 2nd ed, (Kluwer Law International, 2015)
David D. Caron et al (eds.), Practising Virtue - Inside International Arbitration (Oxford University Press, 2015)
Thomas Clay, Code de l'arbitrage commenté (Lexis Nexis, 2021)
Giuditta Cordero-Moss & Diego P. Fernández Arroyo(eds.), Applicable Law Issues in International Arbitration (The Hague Academy of International Law, Brill / Nijhoff, 2023)
Franco Ferrari & Stefan Kröll (eds.), Conflict of Laws in International Commercial Arbitration (Juris, 2019)
Franco Ferrari & Friedrich Rosenfeld (eds.), International Commercial Arbitration – A Comparative Introduction (Edward Elgar, 2021)
Emmanuel Gaillard & John Savage, Fouchard Gaillard Goldman on International Arbitration (Kluwer Law International 1999)
Emmanuel Gaillard / Diego P. Fernández Arroyo (eds.), Cuestiones claves del arbitraje internacional (Universidad del Rosario, 2013)
Eric Loquin, L'arbitrage du commerce international (Joly, 2015)
Jan Paulsson, The Idea of Arbitration (Oxford University Press, 2013)
Jean-Francois Poudret & Sébastien Besson, Comparative Law of International Arbitration (Sweet & Maxwell, 2007)
Jean-Baptiste Racine, Droit de l'arbitrage (PUF, 2016)
Christophe Seraglini & Jérôme Ortscheidt, Droit de l'arbitrage interne et international, 2nd ed (Montchrestien, 2019)
Specialized legal journals : American Review of International Arbitration, Arbitration International, ASA Bulletin, Global Arbitration Review (GAR), International Arbitration Law Review, ICCA Yearbook of Commercial Arbitration, Journal du Droit Internati
Specialized legal journals : Journal of International Arbitration, Journal of International Dispute Settlement, Paris Journal of International Arbitration/ Les Cahiers de l'Arbitrage, Revue de l'Arbitrage, Yearbook Commercial Arbitration
Websites : Kluwer Arbitration Database: http://www.kluwerarbitration.com/ ; TDM: http://www.transnational-dispute- management.com ; Jus Mundi https://jusmundi.com