CAS arbitration, Enforcement, European Convention on Human Rights, Human Rights, Swiss Private International Law Act, Switzerland
Violation of Human Rights under the ECHR: A Valid Challenge of Arbitral Awards at the Swiss Federal Supreme Court?
Among its over 50 decisions on appeals against arbitral awards rendered in 2020, the Swiss Federal Supreme Court (“Supreme Court”) in two decisions yet again addressed a delicate issue on the interaction of human rights and arbitration: can private parties challenge arbitral awards on the basis that the arbitral tribunal violated their human rights under…