International Commercial Arbitration

* WINNER OF THE ASIL CERTIFICATE OF MERIT 2011 *

.* VOTED THE IDR-RELATED BOOK OF THE YEAR 2009 BY OGEMID *

Gary Born’s International Commercial Arbitration is an authoritative 3,200 page treatise, in two volumes, providing the most complete available commentary and analysis on all aspects of the international commercial arbitration process. International Commercial Arbitration has been widely cited by national courts and commentaries in all developed jurisdictions and is the gold standard for international arbitration commentaries. The text was awarded the American Society of International Law’s Certificate of Merit in 2011 and was voted “Book of the Year” by OGEMID.

Reviewers have described International Commercial Arbitration as “the definitive text on international arbitration,” “an unparalleled book on the law, practice and theory of international commercial arbitration” and a “magisterial exposition of international arbitration, which is stunning in its scope and comprehensiveness.” For additional reviews of Born’s book, click here.

International Commercial Arbitration comprehensively examines the constitutional framework of contemporary international commercial arbitration, thoroughly explicating all relevant conventions, statutes, and institutional rules and their interactions in dozens of jurisdictions worldwide. All practitioners, academics and users of international commercial arbitration – whether they need a systematic exposition of how all the ‘pieces fit together’, or detailed clarification of specific issues, or a basis on which to develop strategies – will find clear and authoritative guidance in this work.

Divided into three main parts, International Commercial Arbitration focuses on: International Arbitration Agreements, International Arbitral Procedures and International Arbitral Awards. Topics covered include:

• The separability of the arbitration agreement;

• Choice of law governing the arbitration agreement;

• Formation and validity of the arbitration agreement;

• Effects and interpretation of international arbitration agreements;

• Arbitral procedures, consolidation and joinder;

• Confidentiality;

• Selection of arbitrators and arbitral seats;

• Challenge of arbitrators;

• Choice of substantive and procedural laws;

• Rights and duties of arbitrators;

• Ethical issues and representation in arbitration;

• Form and content of arbitral awards, correction of awards;

• Annulment of awards;

• Recognition and non-recognition of awards; and

• Issues of preclusion and lis pendens.

Mr. Born is one of the world's leading authorities on international arbitration and litigation. He is the author of International Civil Litigation in United States Courts (5th ed. 2011), International Arbitration: Cases and Materials (2010), International Arbitration Agreements and Forum Selection Clauses: Drafting and Enforcing (3d ed. 2010), and numerous other publications in the international litigation and arbitration fields. Mr. Born was recently awarded the Global Arbitration Review’s inaugural “Advocate of the Year” prize and was voted “Best International Litigator in the World” for 2007; he heads Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr's International Arbitration Group.

For academic users, International Commercial Arbitration is designed to be used in conjunction with Mr. Born’s casebook, International Arbitration: Cases and Materials (2010), which is accompanied by a Teacher’s Manual, designed for classroom use.