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Postgraduate study in Laws:

Master of Laws (LLM), Postgraduate Diploma and Postgraduate Certificate

Course outline

Regulation and infrastructure of international commercial arbitration

Students wishing to study and be examined in these courses are advised to successfully complete 'Regulation and infrastructure of international commercial arbitration' in full before attempting 'Applicable laws and procedures in international commercial arbitration'.

Section A: Regulation and infrastructure of arbitration
ˇ Delimitation, definition and juridical nature
ˇ Institutional and regulatory infrastructure
ˇ Constitution, human rights and arbitration
ˇ Arbitration and the courts
Section B: Arbitration agreement
ˇ Autonomy, types, and applicable law
ˇ Formal and substantive validity
ˇ Interpretation of agreements
ˇ Drafting arbitration clauses
Section C: Arbitration tribunal
ˇ Selection and appointment of arbitrators
ˇ Rights and duties of arbitrators
ˇ Independence and impartiality of arbitrators
ˇ Challenge and removal of arbitrators
Section D: Investment arbitration and specialist arbitration
ˇ Arbitration with states and state-owned entities
ˇ Arbitration of investment disputes
ˇ Specialist and mixed arbitration
ˇ Online dispute resolution
Sequence:
Section A first.
Textbook:
Julian D. M. Lew, Loukas A. Mistelis and Stefan Kröll, Comparative International Commercial
Arbitration
(The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 2003), ISBN: 9789041115683