Reference Material

Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards (New York, 1958)

The ICC International Court of Arbitration was the initiator and leader of the movement which led to the adoption of the New York Convention of 10 June 1958 on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards. The New York Convention is the most important multilateral treaty on international arbitration.

Basically, it requires courts of each contracting state:
- to recognize arbitration agreements in writing and to refuse to allow a dispute to be litigated before them when it is subject to an arbitration agreement; and
- to recognize and enforce foreign arbitral awards.

Before entering into an international arbitration agreement, a party is advised to check whether the states of the other contracting party and, if appropriate, of the place of arbitration, have ratified the New York Convention or have signed other multilateral or bilateral treaties offering the same guarantees.

If you wish to have the text of the New York Convention or to know the status of the said Convention, please click on the UNCITRAL website:http://www.uncitral.org

Information on national rules of procedure for the recognition and enforcement of foreign arbitral awards in many countries party to the New York Convention can be found in the Enforcement Guide available in the ICC Dispute Resolution Library: http://www.iccdrl.com/EnforcementGuide.asp

UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration

To get the text of the UNCITRAL model law on international commercial arbitration or to know the status of adoption, please click on the UNCITRAL website:http://www.uncitral.org

 

ICC Publications

To find out about ICC publications on international arbitration, please visit ICC Publishing website at:http://www.iccbooks.com
where you can find, among other books, the Global Reflections on International Law, Commerce and Dispute Resolution, Liber amicorum in honour of Robert Briner and  the new edition of A Guide to the ICC Rules of Arbitration.

The ICC International Court of Arbitration Bulletin also provides first-hand information, essential documents on arbitration as well as extracts from ICC arbitral Awards. Please click here to visit the website pages related to the Bulletinwhere you can alsoview the Contents of all back issues of the ICC International Court of Arbitration Bul letin.

The ICC Dispute Resolution Library is a dynamic and searchable online service provided by the ICC International Court of Arbitration containing more than 1000 relevant documents from its established publications on arbitration, see www.iccdrl.com