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Reflections on International Arbitration: Essays in Honour of Professor George Bermann

Edited by: Julie Bedard, Patrick W. Pearsall

ISBN13: 9781944825577
Published: June 2022
Publisher: Juris Publishing
Country of Publication: USA
Format: Hardback
Price: £320.00



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This Festschrift was put together to honor Professor George Bermann’s pivotal role in the development of international arbitration. To mark his 75th birthday, the world’s leading arbitration and comparative law practitioners have banded together to produce a singular volume worthy of the great man. The book promises to be the single most important volume on the state of arbitration in a generation and will serve as a brilliant collection of insights from the world’s leading thinkers on where we are and where we might go.

Please note this book was previously announced with the title State of Arbitration: Essays in Honour of Professor George Bermann

Subjects:
Arbitration and Alternative Dispute Resolution
Contents:
A. Impact of Professor Bermann on the Legal Profession
Chapter 1: Professor Bermann: A Gateway to International Arbitration
Viren Mascarenhas
Chapter 2: The Enrichment of International Arbitration by Comparative Law: George Bermann as a Model
Richard Kreindler
Chapter 3: An Appreciation of George A. Bermann
Richard L. Mattiaccio
Chapter 4: Professor Bermann’s “Who Decides” Bombshell: Bold, Brave, and Beautiful
Joseph R. Profaizer and Dominique Borde
Chapter 5: George Bermann and the American Law Institute Restatement of the U.S. Law of International Commercial and Investor-State Arbitration
Guy Miller Struve
Chapter 6: George Bermann’s Imaginary Answers to the Proust Questionnaire Revisited
Catherine Kessedjian
Chapter 7: How We Started and a Brief Note on Arbitrability
Robert B. Davidson
Chapter 8: George Bermann, Esq., the Advocate: Applying the United States’ “Gatekeeping” Principles in Commercial and Investor-State Arbitrations
Michael Nolan
Chapter 9: George Bermann and the Parking Lot Brawl
James H. Carter
Chapter 10: A French Language International Arbitration Course for U.S. Law Students
Viviane Grosswald Curran
Chapter 11: Professor George Bermann: A Pillar of the Community and Guiding Force Behind the Restatement
Claudia Salomon
Chapter 12: George Bermann, the Scholar and the Friend
Yas Banifatemi
Chapter 13: Professor Bermann and the Restatement
Stephanie Middleton and Ricky Revesz
B. Current Issues in the Practice of Arbitration
Chapter 14: Iactura: Verum Hostis Arbitri
Klaus Reichert
Chapter 15: The Attorney-Client Privilege in International Arbitrations
Daniel Schimmel, Shrutih Tewarie, and Chris Modlish
Chapter 16: Consent Awards: The Intersection of Party Autonomy and Arbitrator Discretion
Patricia Shaughnessy
Chapter 17: Unconscious Impediments to Settlement and the Proactive Arbitrator
Edna Sussman
Chapter 18: The Anatomy of an International Arbitration Lawyer
Rahim Moloo
Chapter 19: Expert Or Advocate? How To Present Foreign Law
John M. Townsend
Chapter 20: Ethics Responsibilities of Arbitral Institutions: Unenumerated and Immune in Any Event
Mark Kantor
Chapter 21: Reports of the Death of Physical Hearings Have Been Exaggerated
Michael Young
Chapter 22: Legitimacy and Efficacy in Arbitration
John Fellas
Chapter 23: “The Parties Shall First Refer the Dispute to Proceedings under the ICC Mediation Rules…” – A Holistic Rethinking of the Mediation/Arbitration Tradeoff in an Era of “Disruptive” Technological Change
Pierre Kirch
Chapter 24: Twenty-First Century Arbitration: The Question of Trust
Sophie Nappert
Chapter 25- In International Arbitration, There Are No Tribes
Jennifer Kirby
Chapter 26: Improvements to International Arbitration
Neil Kaplan
Chapter 27: Reconsidering the Role of Legal Experts as a Means to Greater Arbitral Efficiency
Donald Francis Donovan, David W. Rivkin, Catherine Amirfar, and Natalie L. Reid
Chapter 28: Legal and Pragmatic Controls in International Arbitration
Julian D M Lew
Chapter 29: The Multiple Futures of International Arbitration
Victoria Shannon Sahani
C. Current Issues in Transnational Litigation
Chapter 30: Mandatory Rules in International Business Litigation
Bernard Audit
Chapter 31: The Use of Anti-Anti-Suit Injunctions in International Litigation
Donald Earl Childress III
Chapter 32: George Bermann: A Scholar and a Friend
Margaret McKeown
Chapter 33: Transnational Arbitration as Private International Law
Diego P. Fernández Arroyo
Chapter 34: Dispute Resolution in the Age of Crisis and Beyond
Nayla Comair-Obeid
Chapter 35: The U.S. Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976: International Commercial Disputes and Exceptions to Sovereign Immunity
Andrew E. Hashim
D. Current Issues in Comparative Law and Legal Systems
Chapter 36: The Three Paradigm Shifts of International Arbitration
Anton Chaevitch
Chapter 37: The Art of Comparative Law Argument in International Arbitrations
Joshua Karton
Chapter 38: The Virtues of Episodic Justice
Joseph E. Neuhaus
Chapter 39: American Arbitration Idiosyncrasies
Christopher R. Drahozal
Chapter 40: All Roads Lead to Rome? Comparing the IBA Rules and the Prague Rules on Evidence in International Arbitration
Kabir A.N. Duggal and Rekha Rangachari
Chapter 41: Shaping International Arbitral Decisions: Patterns in Interactive Systems
David J. Gerber
E. Current Issues in the Treatment of Arbitration in National Courts
Chapter 42: Why Pro-arbitration?
Robert H. Smit
Chapter 43: Contractual Expansion of Judicial Review of Arbitral Awards: French and American Perspectives
Laurence Franc-Menget
Chapter 44: Looking Past “Pro-Arbitration”
E Jin Lee
Chapter 45: The New York Convention, The Doctrine of Self-Executing Treaties, and the Restatement of the Law of International Commercial and Investor-State Arbitration
David P. Stewart
Chapter 46: Another Gateway Issue: The Law Applicable to the Arbitration Agreement: The UK Supreme Court’s Landmark Decision in Enka v. Chubb
Klaus Peter Berger
Chapter 47: First Options and Arbitrability
Louis B. Kimmelman
Chapter 48: Competence-competence and Asking the Right Questions: A German View on Schein v. Archer
Stefan Kröll
Chapter 49: An Old Story of Bias and Refusal to Comply
Alexis Mourre
Chapter 50: The 2019 Judgments Convention: The Need for Comprehensive Federal Implementing Legislation and a Look Back at the ALI Proposed Federal Statute
Linda Silberman
Chapter 51: Fish Out of Water? Foreign Recognition and Enforcement of U.S. Class Arbitration Awards
Guled Yusuf
Chapter 52: Annulled Arbitration Awards: Cross-Border Excursions
William W. Park
Chapter 53: Discretionary Suspension of an Award Subject to Foreign Enforcement Proceedings by the Court of the Seat: The Emerging Position in England and Wales
Can Yeğinsu and Joshua Folkard
Chapter 54: Fixing the Bough to Preserve the Cradle: A Call for More Clarity and Uniformity in Enforcement Courts’ Review of Arbitral Tribunals’ Jurisdictional Determinations
Tolu Obamuroh
F. Current Issues in the Scope of the Arbitration Agreement
Chapter 55: Of Implied Choices and Close Connections: Two Pervasive Issues Concerning the Law Governing the Arbitration Agreement
Maxi Scherer and Ole Jensen
Chapter 56: Brief Remarks on the Applicability of the International Uniform Substantive Law Conventions in International Arbitration
Franco Ferrari
Chapter 57: To Defer or Not to Defer: A Dissent in Bayer Dow
Thomas D. Halket
Chapter 58: The Issue of Non-Signatories: The Draft Restatement of the U.S. Law Compared to the Law and Jurisprudence in Other Jurisdictions
Bernard Hanotiau
Chapter 59: Intent, Consent, and Fairness: The Outer Boundaries to Arbitration by Nonsignatories
Carolyn B. Lamm, Eckhard Hellbeck and Hannelore Sklar
Chapter 60: Outokumpu and the Rights of “Non-Signatories”
Alan Scott Rau
Chapter 61: Arbitration Legitimacy and Party Autonomy Under The Restatement of the Law, the U.S. Law of International Commercial and Investor-State Arbitration
Katharine Menéndez de la Cuesta
G. Current Issues in Public International Law and Investor-State Dispute Settlement
Chapter 62: Overcoming Fragmentation in International Law: The Case of De Facto Employees under International Administrative
Giuditta Cordero-Moss
Chapter 63: The UN Charter: A Global Constitution?
Michael W. Doyle
Chapter 64: Black Tom and the US/Germany Mixed Claims Commission
Paul Friedland
Chapter 65: The Validity of Inter-State Arbitral Awards and Recourse to the World Court
Clara Reichenbach and Stephen M. Schwebel
Chapter 66: Fragmentation in International Investment Law
Michael Waibel
Chapter 67: Arbitrating Trade Disputes in the WTO: Vestiges of the Past, and Shibboleths of the Future
Petros C. Mavroidis
Chapter 68: The Singapore Convention’s Null and Void Refusal Grounds and Related Matters
Jack J. Coe, Jr.
Chapter 69: Foreign Sovereign Immunity in the Enforcement of Investor-State Awards
William S. Dodge
Chapter 70: The UNCITRAL ISDS Reform – Mandate, Working Methods and the Way Forward
Anna Joubin-Bret and David Nikolaus Probst
Chapter 71: The Residual Application of the New York Convention to ICSID Awards
Meg Kinnear and Francisco Grob
Chapter 72: The Reverse Umbrella Clause: A Note in the Quest for the Conceptualization of Another Elephant in the Room
Crenguta Leaua
Chapter 73: Departures from the Blueprint for Execution of ICSID Awards: Recognition, Enforcement and National Court Practice
Barton Legum and Antoine Weber
Chapter 74: “Autonomous” v. International: The European Union’s Conversion from Vertical Confederation to Horizontal Empire-Building
Charles N. Brower and Pem C. Tshering
Chapter 75: “No Man is an Island” – Arbitration Between Sovereigns, Disputed Islands and the Rise of the Professional Adjudicator
Timothy G. Nelson
Chapter 76: International Law’s Failures to Prohibit Nuclear Weapons
W. Michael Reisman
Chapter 77: The Political Backlash Against Investor-State Arbitration
Tai-Heng Cheng and Z.J. Jennifer Lim
Chapter 78: Trade and Human Health and Safety: WTO Law, Transparency and Dispute Resolution in the Context of COVID-19
Cesar Pereira and Roberta Jardim de Morais
Chapter 79: International Arbitration, International Relationships and the Politics of International Law
Stavros Brekoulakis
Chapter 80: The Impact of Brexit on Investment Treaty Protection in the European Union
Manish Aggarwal and Gaëtan Verhoosel
Chapter 81: Annulment of ICSID awards: A de Novo Review or Not for Jurisdictional Error?
Isabelle Michou