…a choice on the “local arbitration agencies.”1)SPC (2006) Min Yi Zhong Zi Di No.11. In another case where the parties agreed on the application of ICC arbitration rules, the SPC…

…complications. It is perhaps only fitting that the session ended with the panelists expressing a measuredly optimistic view that international investment law, as a dynamic and ever-changing body of rules,…

…predilection for respecting arbitral jurisdiction and upholding awards. Emerging Rules and Principles It may be argued that fulfillment of pre-arbitration procedural requirements is condition precedent to formation of the parties’…

…only deviates from the practice in most arbitration-friendly jurisdictions, but also creates tension with other sources of arbitration guidance in China—including judicial practice and institutional rules—sometimes catching even seasoned practitioners…

…values and mandatory rules of a given jurisdiction, and international public policy, encompassing those rules that are applied by domestic courts in cross-border cases, the dividing line between these dimensions…

…the international community, are hierarchically superior to other rules of international law and are universally applicable. By contrast, the term “erga omnes obligation” was crafted by the ICJ in the…