International Commercial Arbitration
A student on our Vis Moot team yesterday asked me how I stay current with developments in international commercial arbitration and where I look for ideas to write about. My favourite source for both is Mealey’s International Commercial Arbitration Report. This is a montly publication which summarises interesting recent cases, legislation and other happenings, and a simply invaluable resource. It is available on Lexis but I prefer to receive it in print (yes, anachronism that I am). The other great source for new ideas and just monitoring important happenings is to trawl the web-sites of the major appellate courts (Canadian and US Supreme Courts, House of Lords and High Court of Australia are the places I go) and look through their lists of pending appeals and judgments reserved. This is where you will find the really hot stuff.
Nick, there is a commercial database called Kluwer Arbitration at
http://www.kluwerarbitration.com
our faculty who work in this area swear by it. It features a monthly newsletter.
Don’t overlook the extent to which the larger arbitrations carried on outside the major institutions like ICSID have confidentiality imperatives that keep them off the radar of the major commercial databases which are focussed on public material.
Arbitrations under the ICC, AAA or London Court may not get tracked there.
The IBA’s website is a good lead at http://www.ibanet.org/legalpractice/Arbitration.cfm, and it’ll come as no surprise that we would recommend Wenger’s guide at http://www.llrx.com/features/arbitration2.htm
Finally Richard Happ’s links at http://www.happlaw.de/arbitralwebsites/index.html