VIAC’s Listed Arbitrator Gary B. Born officially launched the book “International Arbitration: Law and Practice, Fourth Edition.”

International Arbitration: Law and Practice, Fourth Edition provides comprehensive and authoritative coverage of the basic principles and legal doctrines, and the practice, of international arbitration. The book contains a systematic, but concise, treatment of all aspects of the arbitral process, including international arbitration agreements, international arbitral proceedings and international arbitral awards. The Fourth Edition has been comprehensively updated to include recent legislative amendments, judicial decisions and arbitral awards. Among other things, the book provides a detailed treatment of the New York Convention, the UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration, all leading institutional arbitration rules (including ICC, SIAC, LCIA, AAA and others), the ICSID Convention and ICSID Arbitration Rules, and judicial decisions from leading jurisdictions.

This highly regarded work that addresses both international commercial arbitration and the related fields of investment and state-to-state arbitration is essential reading for any student of international arbitration and guides practitioners through the entire arbitral process, beginning with drafting, enforcing and interpreting international arbitration agreements, to selecting arbitrators and conducting arbitral proceedings, to recognizing, implementing and seeking to annul arbitral awards.

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Introduction to International Arbitration

Part I: International Arbitration Agreements

• Chapter 2: International Arbitration Agreements: Legal Framework

• Chapter 3: Formation and Validity of International Arbitration Agreements

• Chapter 4: Interpretation of International Arbitration Agreements

• Chapter 5: International Arbitration Agreements: Non-Signatory Issues

Part II: International Arbitral Proceedings

• Chapter 6: International Arbitral Proceedings: Legal Framework

• Chapter 7: Selection and Removal of Arbitrators in International Arbitration

• Chapter 8: Procedural Issues in International Arbitration

• Chapter 9: Disclosure and Evidence-Taking in International Arbitration

• Chapter 10: Confidentiality and Transparency in International Arbitration

• Chapter 11: Provisional Measures in International Arbitration

• Chapter 12: Multi-Party and Multi-Contract Issues in International Arbitration

• Chapter 13: Choice of Substantive Law in International Arbitration 

• Chapter 14: Legal Representatives and Professional Responsibility in International Arbitration

Part III: International Arbitral Awards

• Chapter 15: International Arbitral Awards: Legal Framework

• Chapter 16: Annulment of International Arbitral Awards

• Chapter 17: Recognition and Enforcement of International Arbitral Awards

• Chapter 18: Investor-State and State-to-State Arbitration

About the author – Mr. Gary B. Born:

1. Overview

Mr. Born has participated as counsel in more than 675 international arbitrations, including four of the largest ICC arbitrations and several of the most significant ad hoc arbitrations in recent history. Among many accolades for his work as counsel, Mr. Born received the Global Arbitration Review inaugural “Advocate of the Year” award, the Client Choice award for “Best International Arbitration Practitioner” and the Best Lawyers “London Arbitration Lawyer of the Year” award. He is one of only two practitioners to achieve “starred” status for international arbitration in the Chambers Global and Chambers UK guides.

2. Dispute resolution experiences

Mr. Born has represented European, US, Asian and other companies in arbitrations under all leading institutional rules (ICC, LCIA, AAA, Vienna, Stockholm, ICSID) and in ad hoc arbitrations in all leading international seats (London, Paris, Geneva/Zurich, Vienna, Stockholm, New York, Washington, Singapore). He has particular experience in joint venture, investor-state, M&A, investment banking and other financial services, project finance, energy, oil and gas, intellectual property and insurance disputes.

Mr. Born heads the firm's international arbitration group, which is based in London with lawyers in in our New York, Washington, Boston, Silicon Valley and Berlin offices. Mr. Born also advises on the litigation of international disputes in US courts. He has particular experience in the fields of jurisdiction, enforcement of judgments, conflict of laws and international judicial cooperation, and also serves as an expert witness on aspects of US private international law in foreign proceedings.

Mr. Born also sits as arbitrator (presiding arbitrator, sole arbitrator and co-arbitrator) and serves as expert witness. He has served as arbitrator in more than 250 institutional and ad hoc arbitrations.

3. Publications

• International Commercial Arbitration, Fourth Edition

• International Commercial Arbitration, Third Edition

• International Arbitration and Forum Selection Agreements: Drafting and Enforcing, Sixth Edition

• International Civil Litigation in United States Courts, Sixth Edition

• International Arbitration: Law and Practice, Third Edition

• International Arbitration: Cases and Materials, Third Edition

• International Commercial Arbitration: Commentary and Materials, Second Edition

4. Professional Activities

Mr. Born is an Honorary Professor of Law at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland and Tsinghua University, Beijing. He has also taught at Harvard Law School, University of Pennsylvania Law School, Stanford Law School, Georgetown University Law Center, National University of Singapore, Peking University School of Transnational Law, University of Virginia School of Law, University College London and the University of Arizona College of Law. Mr. Born is a member of the American Law Institute and of the Board of Trustees of the British Institute for International and Comparative Law. He has served on the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law, the Advisory Committee of the ALI's Restatement of US International Arbitration Law, the Advisory Committee of the ALI Restatement of US Foreign Relation Law (Fourth) and as co-chair of the ABA International Section, Committee on International Aspects of Litigation. He is also a Vice President of the American Society of International Law.

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