ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION 2001 EDITION
published by the llinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education

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© 2001 by Stephen E. Smith

I. Scope of Chapter
23.1 Scope of Chapter

II. What is an "International Arbitration"?
23.2 What is an "International Arbitration"?

III. Drafting the International Arbitration Agreement
23.3 Affiliates
23.4 Arbitrators
23.5 Choice of Law
23.6 Confidentiality, Costs and Fees and Currency of Award
23.7 Damages, Consequential or Punitive
23.8 Discovery
23.9 Entry of Judgment and General Purpose Institutional Clause
23.10 Interest
23.11 Intergovernmental Organizations
23.12 Judicial Forum, Asymmetrical or Sole Option
23.13 Exclusive Judicial Forum
23.14 Nonexclusive Judicial Forum
23.15 Excluded Judicial Review
23.16 Expanded Judicial Review
23.17 Jurisdictional Defenses, Waiver, Jury Waiver
23.18 Language
23.19 Limitations Periods
23.20 Mediation as a First Step
23.21 Multi-Party Contracts
23.22 Narrow Scope
23.23 Negotiation as a First Step
23.24 Non-Administered Arbitration (without designated set of rules)
23.25 Offsets
23.26 Place of Arbitration
23.27 Preliminary Adjudication of Threshold Issues and Provisional Relief
23.28 Related Contracts
23.29 Service of Process
23.30 Sole Option Arbitration Clauses
23.31 Sovereign Immunity - Waiver as to Enforcement
23.32 Submission Agreements for Existing Disputes
23.33 Initiating an International Arbitration Proceeding
23.34 Time Limits and Fast-Tracking
23.35 UNCITRAL Model Clause
23.36 Witness Statements

IV. Conclusion
23.37 Conclusion