In a three-day symposium held at the School of International Arbitration,
Centre for Commercial Law Studies (CCLS), Queen Mary University of London, on
the occasion of its twentieth anniversary in April 2005, a stellar array of
practitioners and academics undertook the task of taking a fresh look at some
of the persistent legal and practice issues of international arbitration. The
conference and this book derived from it illustrate the combination of the
scholarly and the highly practical which has characterised the mission of the
School of International Arbitration since its establishment in 1985.
These insightful papers demonstrate not only the increasing breadth and scope
of the subject, but also the way in which many of its themes and issues cross
legal and disciplinary boundaries and pose questions for the future of the law
and arbitration practice in an internationalised world. These include:
• public policy;
• mandatory rules;
• confidentiality;
• provisional measures;
• res judicata;
• costs;
• amicus briefs;
• groups of companies;
• parallel proceedings; and
• anti-suit injunctions.
