International Commercial Arbitration

This course will cover, in roughly chronological order, the principal stages of an international commercial arbitration and is intended to provide a substantive overview of the law and practice of international arbitration. While the course will focus on the U.S. legal framework for international commercial arbitration, a comparatist perspective on the different role and functions of dispute resolution in different countries, and foreign laws and practices of international arbitration, will also be brought to bear. Finally, the theory and practice of international arbitration will be examined from the perspectives of the various different players in the field: the parties, their counsel, the arbitrators, the arbitral institutions, and the courts. Classes will include both lecture and interactive questions and answers based on the texts and actual practice case studies.