The Vienna Rules
The Vienna Rules

Author: Franz T. Schwarz

Publisher: Kluwer Law International B.V.

Published: 2009-01-01

Total Pages: 1138

ISBN-13: 904112344X

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This book examines the new Vienna Rules and the Austrian Arbitration Act that both came into effect on 1 July 2006 as the result of a major reform. It is devoted to two principles. First, it recognizes that no two international arbitrations are the same. Arbitration thrives, and is today the predominant method of transnational dispute resolution, because it meets the demands of international business for flexibility and efficacy. Arbitration will continue to succeed if it retains those properties, allowing for the adoption of procedures that are customized to satisfy the commercial prerogatives of the individual case. This book seeks to provide its readers with a general framework, and specific instruments, to negotiate that process.

Arbitration Law of Austria
Arbitration Law of Austria

Author: Stefan Riegler

Publisher: Juris Publishing, Inc.

Published: 2007-03-01

Total Pages: 1044

ISBN-13: 1933833076

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Arbitration Law of Austria, with over 800 pages of commentary and analysis, provides the reader in a "one-stop-shop" manner with a concise but comprehensive tool for understanding and conducting arbitrations under the Austrian Arbitration Act and the Vienna Rules. Austria has taken account of international developments and revised its law on arbitration. The new Arbitration Act, which is based on the UNCITRAL Model Law, entered into force on 1 July 2006. Arbitration Law of Austria: Practice and Procedure has been designed to be a reference book for arbitration practitioners and everyone who wants to familiarize themselves in depth with Austrian arbitration law and practice (including the "Vienna Rules"). It gives a concise introduction and provides a practical commentary to each section of the new Arbitration Act and each article of the Vienna Rules. Section by section the book analyzes which case law rendered under the old regime still applies and, for the first time, summarises Austrian case law in English. In addition, five topics of particular interest are covered in detail: arbitration agreements and third parties; confidentiality in arbitration; arbitrators' liability, enforcement and recognition of arbitral awards, and arbitration and bankruptcy.

Dispute Resolution in Austria
Dispute Resolution in Austria

Author: Manfred Heider

Publisher: Kluwer Law International B.V.

Published: 2015-10-16

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 9041158448

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This very useful book arms litigation and arbitration practitioners and in-house counsel with a detailed description of the Austrian procedural law governing proceedings before both Austrian domestic courts and arbitral tribunals seated in Austria. Divided equally between arbitration and litigation, with a concluding chapter on the role of relevant international conventions and treaties, the book provides a practical approach to users of the Austrian law on dispute resolution. While it includes detailed references and examples of the jurisprudence of Austrian courts and the opinions of Austrian academics, its great value lies in the straightforward answers it provides foreign lawyers to questions that arise during proceedings in Austria. Issues and topics covered include the following: • the rules governing arbitration agreements and arbitrability; • the taking of evidence in arbitration; • interim measures; • costs; • recognition and enforcement of arbitral awards; • court structure and jurisdiction of Austrian courts; • the evidentiary proceedings before Austrian courts; and • European Civil Procedure• This is the first detailed English-language portrayal of the Austrian legal situation à propos dispute resolution. It allows practitioners to quickly grasp an overview of the Austrian practice in both arbitration and litigation while simultaneously ensuring the required depth to fully understand the legal background of this practice.

EU Mediation Law Handbook
EU Mediation Law Handbook

Author: Nadja Alexander

Publisher: Kluwer Law International B.V.

Published: 2017-03-15

Total Pages: 615

ISBN-13: 9041158677

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Mediation is rapidly becoming a norm in cross-border dispute resolution among European Union (EU) Member States. Accordingly, an important question for legal advisers to ask themselves is: Which jurisdiction offers the best legal framework to support a potential future mediation of my client’s dispute? This book responds to this question by examining the law on mediation in each Member State on a chapter-by-chapter basis. Each country analysis applies the book’s overarching principle of a specially designed Regulatory Robustness Rating System, which is thoroughly explained in an introductory chapter. This framework offers a highly effective way to analyse the quality and robustness of each of the EU’s twenty-nine national jurisdictions’ legal frameworks relevant to mediation (including legislation, case law, practice directions, codes of conduct, standards, and other regulatory instruments) and factor such an analysis into choices about governing law in mediation clauses and other agreements. Among the issues and topics covered are the following: • congruence of domestic and international legal frameworks; • transparency and clarity of content of mediation laws; • standards and qualifications for mediators; • rights and obligations of participants in mediation; • access to mediation services; • access to internationally recognised and skilled mediators; • enforceability of clauses and mediated settlement agreements; • confidentiality and flexibility; • admissibility of evidence from mediation in subsequent proceedings; • impact of commencement of mediation on litigation limitation periods; • relationship and attitude of courts to mediation; and • regulatory incentives for legal advisers to engage in mediation. This detailed analysis clearly allows users and other regulatory stakeholders to look closely and critically at regulatory regimes for mediation in order to make informed choices and develop appropriate strategies in relation to the law that governs their mediation. This is the first book to consider authoritatively what makes good mediation law and what makes a jurisdiction attractive for cross-border mediation purposes in terms of its regulatory framework. As a resource that identifies potential strengths and weaknesses of each EU Member State’s regulatory regime, it has no peers and will be welcomed and put to use by the alternative dispute resolution community in Europe and beyond.

Alternative Dispute Resolution in European Administrative Law
Alternative Dispute Resolution in European Administrative Law

Author: Dacian C. Dragos

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-09-19

Total Pages: 624

ISBN-13: 3642349463

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This book examines the role, the general framework and the empirical effectiveness of the main alternative dispute resolution tools (administrative appeals, mediation, and ombudsman) in administrative matters, within the broader context of the administrative justice system. The book uses approaches from the fields of law, public administration, public policy and political science to assess the importance of different instruments for alternative dispute resolution, with an emphasis on administrative appeals.

International and Comparative Mediation
International and Comparative Mediation

Author: Nadja Marie Alexander

Publisher: Kluwer Law International B.V.

Published: 2009-01-01

Total Pages: 538

ISBN-13: 9041132244

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"In a world where the borders of the global community are fluid, and where disputants manifest increasingly diverse attributes and needs, mediation ? for decades hovering at the edge of dispute resolution practice ? is now emerging as the preferred approach, both in its own right and as an adjunct to arbitration. Mediation processes are sufficiently flexible to accommodate a range of stakeholders (not all of whom might have legal standing) in ways the formality of arbitration and litigation would not normally allow. Among mediation?s many advantages are time and cost efficiencies, sensitivity to cultural differences, and assured privacy and confidentiality. This book meets the practice needs of lawyers confronted with cross-border disputes now arising far beyond the traditional areas of international commerce, such as consumer disputes, inter-family conflicts, and disagreements over Internet-based transactions. The author takes full account of mediation?s risks and limitations, primarily its lack of finality and uncertainty in relation to enforceability issues which will persist until the advent of appropriate international regulation."--Publisher's website.

Arbitration in the Digital Age
Arbitration in the Digital Age

Author: Maud Piers

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-01-25

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 1108287174

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Arbitration in the Digital Age analyses how technology can be efficiently and legitimately used to further sound arbitration proceedings. The contributions, from a variety of arbitration scholars, report on current developments, predict future trends, and assesses their impact from a practical, legal, and technical point of view. The book also discusses the relationship between arbitration and the Internet and analyses how social media can affect arbitrators and counsel's behaviour. Furthermore, it analyses the validity of electronic arbitration and awards, as well as Online Arbitration (OArb). The volume establishes, on a very practical level, how technology could be used by arbitration institutions, arbitrators, parties to an arbitration and counsel. This book will be of special interest to arbitrators and lawyers involved in international commercial arbitration.

Comparative Dispute Resolution
Comparative Dispute Resolution

Author: Maria F. Moscati

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2020-12-25

Total Pages: 608

ISBN-13: 1786433036

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Comparative Dispute Resolution offers an original, wide-ranging, and invaluable corpus of chapters on dispute resolution. Enriched by a broad, comparative vision and a focus on the processes used to handle disputes, this study adds significantly to the discourse around comparative legal studies. Chapters present new understandings of theoretical, comparative and transnational dimensions of the manner in which societies and their legal systems respond to difficulties in social relations.

Regulating Dispute Resolution
Regulating Dispute Resolution

Author: Felix Steffek

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2014-07-18

Total Pages: 485

ISBN-13: 1782253580

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This book proposes a principled approach to the regulation of dispute resolution. It covers dispute resolution mechanisms in all their varieties, including negotiation, mediation, conciliation, expert opinion, mini-trial, ombud procedures, arbitration and court adjudication. The authors present a transnational Guide for Regulating Dispute Resolution (GRDR). The regulatory principles contained in this Guide are based on a functional taxonomy of dispute resolution mechanisms, an open normative framework and a modular structure of regulatory topics. The Guide for Regulating Dispute Resolution is formulated and commented upon in a concise manner to assist legislators, policy-makers, professional associations, practitioners and academics in thinking about which solutions best suit local and regional circumstances. The aim of this book is to contribute to the understanding and development of the legal framework governing national and international dispute resolution. Theory, empirical research and regulatory models have been taken from the wealth of experience in 12 jurisdictions: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, England and Wales, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland and the United States of America. Experts with a background in academia, practice and law-making describe and analyse the regulatory framework and social reality of dispute resolution in these countries. On this basis the authors draw conclusions about policy choices, regulatory strategies and the practice of conflict resolution. This title is included in Bloomsbury Professional's International Arbitration online service.