Discrimination, Equality and the Law A Practitioner's Guide

This Guide provides an overview of the global framework of international commercial arbitration – the New York Convention – and gives comprehensive insight into the laws of international arbitration for the world’s most important jurisdictions in the arena of international arbitration: Austria, Belgium, Brazil, China, England and Wales, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Netherlands, Russia, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United States of America. The country reports focus on international arbitration, and, where applicable, point to specific rules applying to domestic arbitration in a specific jurisdiction.

Each country report follows a uniform structure along the following lines:

  I. Introduction
  II. The arbitration agreement
  III. The arbitral proceedings
  IV. The control and the enforcement of arbitral awards