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The Yearbook Commercial Arbitration continues its longstanding commitment to serving as a primary resource for the international arbitration community with reporting on arbitral awards and court decisions applying the leading arbitration conventions, as well as arbitration legislation and rules.Volume XXXIV provides: * A selection of awards made under the auspices of, inter alia, the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), The German Arbitration Institute (DIS) and the Netherlands Arbitration Institute (NAI), as well as an ad hoc partial award rendered under the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules; * a selection of court decisions on different topics that are relevant to the practice of (International) arbitration; * Information on PR China, Germany, Italy, Japan, Southern Africa, Spain, the United States and WIPO; * excerpts of 77 court decisions applying the 1958 New York Convention from 23 countries, including, for the first time, cases from Antigua and Barbuda and Kenya; * decisions from Austria, Canada, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, India, Jordan, Kenya, the Russian Federation, Singapore, Turkey and Venezuela reflecting the parallel application of the UNCITRAL Model Law as adopted in these jurisdictions together with the Convention; * cases from Austria, Brazil, PR China, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, Russian Federation, Switzerland, Turkey and Venezuela, all translated from their original language into English; and, * an extensive Bibliography of recent books and journals on arbitration, including this year general works on the theory and practice of arbitration in China, England, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan and The Netherlands, as well as commentaries on the rules of the ICC, the LCIA, the NAI and the Vienna International Arbitral Centre.The Yearbook is edited by the International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA), the world's leading organization representing practitioners and academics in the field, with the assistance of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, The Hague. It is an essential tool for lawyers, business people and scholars involved in the practice and study of international arbitration. |