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Book review: International Commercial Arbitration: International Conventions, Country Reports and Comparative Analysis

02 December 2016 / Anna Myrvang
Issue: 7725 / Categories: Features
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“We expect to see [this handbook] quickly become a much-thumbed staple on the desks of in-house counsel, practitioners & students”

Editor: Dr Stephan Balthasar
Publisher: Hart Publishing
ISBN: 9781849467933
Price: £180

This handbook on international commercial arbitration provides a well-structured and easily accessible overview of laws, rules and best practice guidelines both at an international level and in the world’s leading commercial arbitration jurisdictions.

One of the key attractions of international commercial arbitration is its flexibility of process. However, this asset can also be one of the arbitration student’s and practitioner’s greatest problems—and increasingly so as disputes concerning cross-border trade and commerce that would previously have been dealt with in the courts of London, New York and Hong Kong are now governed by arbitration agreements (a trend expected to continue at pace, particularly for those re-considering their forum provisions in this post-Brexit world). With so many options and permutations of process available within and between various arbitration fora and across jurisdictions, and with the law of arbitration still developing—and quickly—in

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

CBI South-East Council—Mike Wilson

CBI South-East Council—Mike Wilson

Blake Morgan managing partner appointed chair of CBI South-East Council

Birketts—Phillippa O’Neill

Birketts—Phillippa O’Neill

Commercial dispute resolution team welcomes partner in Cambridge

Charles Russell Speechlys—Matthew Griffin

Charles Russell Speechlys—Matthew Griffin

Firm strengthens international funds capability with senior hire

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