Subjects:

Arbitration and Dispute Resolution

Contents:

Anticipating trends in European dispute resolution

restraining the exercise of power of institutions and arbitrators

institutional rules - straightjacket or scaffold

conduct of the arbitration - what should international arbitration rules to be doing

Lex Mercatoria - a legal basis for the resolution of international disputes

resolving e-commerce disputes - a code for all domains

arbitration in international telecommunications - the future.

This collection of essays explores some of the problems likely to be faced by those using international arbitration in the next decade. The book's approach is to identify the background against which international disputes will happen and outline potential changes to existing dispute resolution.;The contributors examine: the underlying problems of the marketplace itself; the future of dispute resolution; changes in LCIA and ICC rules; the topical area of e-commerce and the related infrastructure; and jurisdictional problems of trading in cyberspace.