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New York Convention: Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards of 10 June 1958; Commentary. Edited by Reinmar Wolff. Munich–Oxford–Baden-Baden: Verlag C. H. Beck–Hart Publishing–Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2012. Pp. lxiv, 612. Index. $350, £175.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Margaret L. Moses*
Affiliation:
Loyola University Chicago School of Law

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Recent Books on International Law
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2015

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References

1 [New York] Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards, June 10, 1958, 21 UST 2517, 330 UNTS 3 [hereinafter New York Convention].

2 See United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), Status: Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards (New York, 1958) (2015), at http://www.uncitral.org/uncitral/en/uncitral_texts/arbitration/NYConvention_status.html. One of the reasons for the growth of international commercial arbitration is that the awards are readily enforceable under the New York Convention because the grounds for nonenforcement are quite narrow.

3 New York Convention, supra note 1, Art. VII(1) (providing that a party, in bringing an enforcement action, may rely on any domestic law of the enforcing court that may be more favorable than the Convention).

4 Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards: A Global Commentary on the New York Convention (Herbert Kronke, Patricia Nacimiento, Dirk Otto & Nicola Christine Port eds., 2010).

5 See, e.g., Albert Jan van den Berg, Keynote Address: Hypothetical Draft Convention on the International Enforcement of Arbitration Agreements and Awards: Explanatory Note, in 50 Years of the New York Convention 649 (Albert Jan van den Berg ed., 2009).

6 Teresa Cheng, Celebrating the Fiftieth Anniversary of the New York Convention, in 50 Years of the New York Convention, supra note 5, at 685.

7 Article II(2)of the Convention provides: “The term ‘agreement in writing’ shall include an arbitral clause in a contract or an arbitration agreement, signed by the parties or contained in an exchange of letters or telegrams.”

8 UNCITRAL, Recommendation Regarding the Interpretation of Article II, Paragraph 2, and Article VII, paragraph 1, of the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards (July 7 2006), available at http://www.uncitral.org/uncitralen/uncitral_texts/arbitration/2006recommendation.html [hereinafter UNCITRAL Recommendation].

9 New York Convention, supra note 1, Art. VII(1).

10 UNCITRAL Recommendation, supra note 8.

11 New York Convention, supra note 1, Art. V(1)(b).

12 UNCITRAL Recommendation, supra note 8.

13 Geneva Protocol on Arbitration Clauses, Sept. 24, 1923, 27 LNTS 158.

14 Geneva Convention on the Execution of Foreign Arbitral Awards, Sept. 26, 1927, 92 LNTS 301.

15 European Convention on International Commercial Arbitration, Apr. 21, 1961, 484 UNTS 349.

16 Inter-American (Panama) Convention on International Commercial Arbitration, Jan. 30, 1975, OAS TS No. 42, 14 ILM 336 (1975), available at http://www.oas.org/juridico/english/treaties/b-35.html.