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Contemporary Issues in International Arbitration and Mediation The Fordham Papers 2008 Contemporary Issues in International Arbitration and Mediation The Fordham Papers 2008 Arthur W. Rovine Editor Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Contemporary issues in international arbitration and mediation : the Fordham papers 2008 /Arthur W. Rovine, editor. p. cm. Articles presented at the June 2008 Fordham Law School annual conference in New York City. Includes index. ISBN 978-90-04-17555-6 1. Arbitration and award, International—Congresses. 2. Arbitration, International—Congresses. I. Rovine, Arthur W. II. Fordham Univer- sity. School of Law K2400.A6C65 2009 341.5(cid:3)22—dc22 2009012383 (cid:2) Copyright 2009 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands. Koninklijke Brill NV incorporates the imprints Brill, Hotei Publishers, IDC Publishers, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, and VSP. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher. Authorization to photocopy items for internal or personal use is granted by Brill provided that the appropriate fees are paid directly to the Copyright ClearanceCenter,222RosewoodDrive,Suite910,Danvers,MA01923,USA. Fees are subject to change. Printed in the Netherlands Contents Introduction .................................................................. ix Arthur W. Rovine Contributors ................................................................... xxix List of Abbreviations and Acronyms ...................................... xlvii Part I Investor-State Arbitration Overview of Investor-State Arbitration .............................. 3 Gabrielle Kaufmann-Kohler New Generation of Bilateral Investment Treaties: Consensus or Divergence? ............................................................. 5 John Beechey and Antony Crockett Eclipse of Expropriation? ............................................... 27 W. Michael Reisman and Rocı´o Digo´n Interim Measures: An Arbitrator’s Provisional Views ............. 47 L. Yves Fortier, C.C., Q.C. Treatment of Non-Disputing State Party Views in Investor- State Arbitrations .......................................................... 59 Andrea J. Menaker Part II Recent Significant Domestic Judicial Decisions Involvingor Potentially Involving International Arbitration Current Developments in the United States ....................... 83 Donald Francis Donovan England: A Look Back on a Year of Authority and Hilarity .. 97 Sophie Nappert Recent Significant French Judicial Decisions Involving International Arbitration ................................................. 109 Philippe Pinsolle v vi Contemporary Issues in International Arbitration and Mediation Recent Austrian, German, and Swiss Judicial Decisions Involving International Arbitration ................................... 123 Hilmar Raeschke-Kessler Part III Class Actions and Consolidation in International Arbitration Overcoming Obstacles to Consolidation of International Arbitrations .................................................................. 143 Michael Marks Cohen Should No-Class Action Arbitration Clauses Be Enforced? ..... 153 Fre´de´ric Bachand Desirability of International Class Arbitration ..................... 171 Dana H. Freyer and Gregory A. Litt Feasibility of Class Arbitration ......................................... 183 John Fellas Part IV Intellectual Property and Information Technology Issues in International Arbitration Choice of Law in International Intellectual Property Arbitrations: A Three-Dimensional Chess Game? ................. 199 Thomas D. Halket International Arbitration of Intellectual Property Validity ...... 227 Joel E. Lutzker Using Information Technology Efficiently in International Arbitration ................................................................... 239 Erik Scha¨fer Electronic Discovery and Arbitration: A Shortcut Through E- Discovery ..................................................................... 255 Irene C. Warshauer Part V Mediation: Issues, Solutions, and Expanding Applications How Confidential Is Mediation Confidentiality? .................. 273 John Michael Richardson Mediators Take Note: Are We a Cottage Industry? Are We a Profession? Who Will Decide? ......................................... 293 Judith P. Meyer and Michael Leathes Table of Contents vii Using Mediation Techniques to Improve M&A Outcomes ..... 305 Patricia Barclay European Directive on Commercial Mediation: What It Provides and What It Doesn’t ......................................... 311 F. Peter Phillips Commercial Mediation in China: Challenge of Shifting Paradigms ................................................................... 319 F. Peter Phillips Mediation Trends in Australia—De´ja` Vu and Innovation ...... 331 Ian Hanger Final Step: Issues in Enforcing the Mediation Settlement Agreement ................................................................... 343 Edna Sussman Index ......................................................................... 361 Introduction Arthur W. Rovine Director, Fordham Law School Conference on International Arbitration and Mediation New York, New York, USA The 2008 volume of Contemporary Issues in International Arbitration and Mediation: The Fordham Papers is the second book of articles written by leading figures in international arbitration and mediation who made presentations at the June 2008 Fordham Law School conference in New York City. As I indicated in my Introduction to the 2007 volume, Fordham plans to have a conference each year and to publish the articles that come from the conference. Martinus Nijhoff is the publisher. The volumes contain articles on international commercial arbitration, investor-State arbitration, and mediation. In this Introduction, I point to someoftherecentsignificantdevelopmentsin international arbitrationand mediation, as presented in the articles. At the same time, I briefly discuss each of the articles, even if just to summarize, whether or not they reflect important developments in 2008, since the subjects of the articles are each worthy of study, and all address contemporary issues. For international arbitration, the year 2008 was significant, or potential- ly significant, in a few ways, at least two of them centered in the United States.Thefirst,addressedbyDonaldDonovanin hisarticleinPart II, is the U.S.SupremeCourt decisionin Hall Street Associates LLC v. Mattel (128 S. Ct. 1396 (2008)), which held that parties could not expand by contract the scope of judicial review of an arbitral award consistently with the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA), 9 U.S.C. Section 1 et seq. The second important U.S. development, involving a congressional bill known as the Arbitration Fairness Act (AFA), and similar legislation, is addressed below. In Hall Street, the parties had attempted to expand the scope of judicial review in an agreement providing that the decisions of the arbitral tribunal would be reviewable by the U.S. district court for errors of fact and law, in addition to the several statutory grounds permitted under the FAA. But the Supreme Court held that the FAA grounds for review were exclusive. The case attracted attention in the United States, with several amicus briefs submitted to the Supreme Court. The decision raises the question, inter alia, whether ‘‘manifest disregard of the law,’’ long held to be a ground for arbitral award annulments in the ix
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