Anti-suit Injunctions in International Arbitration covers the controversial and emerging topic of anti-suit injunctions issued by courts and arbitral tribunals in both international commercial and investment arbitration. By focusing on the legality and various effects of anti-suit injunctions, it provides for workable solutions for the use of anti-suit injunctions in Continental Europe.
Anti-suit injunctions are essentially provisional measures issued against a party that enjoins the respondent from continuing or filing a suit in another forum by disregarding a valid arbitration agreement made between the parties. Although this work analyzes all aspects of anti-suit injunctions, it also discusses features and problems related to provisional measures in general. It evaluates various aspects of anti-suit injunctions that are not common to the legal systems of many countries in Continental Europe, and analyzes them from the perspective of both Turkish law and comparative law. Virtually all aspects of anti-suit injunctions in international arbitration are addressed, namely:
Other areas considered by the author are: