Below is a list of readings recommended by lecturers. The list will continue to expand as we receive further suggestions.

Christoph Schreuer | General Course

• Rudolf Dolzer and Christoph Schreuer, Principles of International Investment Law (Oxford University Press, 2008).
• R. Doak Bishop, James Crawford, W. Michael Reisman, Foreign Investment Disputes, Cases Materials and Commentary (Kluwer, 2005).
• Campbell McLachlan, Laurence Shore, Matthew Weiniger, International Investment Arbitration (Oxford University Press, 2007).
• Emmanuel Gaillard, La Jurisprudence du CIRDI (2 volumes, Pedone, 2004 and 2010).
• Peter Muchlinski, Federico Ortino, Christoph Schreuer (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of International Investment Law (Oxford University Press, 2008).
• Christoph H. Schreuer, Loretta Malintoppi, August Reinisch, Anthony Sinclair, The ICSID Convention: A Commentary 2d edition (Cambridge University Press, 2009).
• Zacchary Douglas, The International Law of Investment Claims (Cambridge University Press, 2009).
• UNCTAD course on investment arbitration in nine modules. Part 2 relating to the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes, modules 2.1 – 2.9.

George A. Bermann | Gateway issues in international arbitration in the United States

• The Federal Arbitration Act, 9 U.S. Code, secs. 1-16, 201-08, 301-07.
• Howsam v. Dean Witter Reynolds, 537 U.S. 591 (2002).
• Buckeye Check Cashing v. Cardegna, 546 U.S. 440 (2006).
• Rent-a-Center, West, Inc. v. Jackson, 130 S.Ct. 2272 (2010).
• ATT Mobility v. Concepcion, 2011 US LEXIS 3367 (Apr. 27, 2011).
• Code de Procédure civile (French Code of Civil Procedure), articles 1447, 1448 and 1465, as amended by the January 2011 decree.

Pierre-Marie Dupuy | Special Course on State consent in investment arbitration

Books

• Rudolf Dolzer & Christoph Schreuer, Principles of International Investment Law (Oxford University Press, 2008).
• Ousmane Diallo, Le consentement des parties à l’arbitrage international (The Graduate Institute Publications, Geneva, Presses Universitaires de France, 2010).
• Zacchary Douglas, The International Law of Investment Claims (Cambridge University Press, 2009).
• Emmanuel Gaillard, La Jurisprudence du CIRDI (2 volumes, Pedone, 2004 and 2010).
• Peter Muchlinski, Federico Ortino, Christoph Schreuer (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of International Investment Law (Oxford University Press, 2008).
• Christoph Schreuer, The ICSID Convention: A Commentary (Cambridge University Press/ICSID, 2001).

Articles

• Aron Broches, “The Convention on the Settlement of Investment Disputes Between States ad Nationals of Other States”, in Collected Courses of the Hague Academy of International Law, Year 1972, Part II, Vol. 136, at 353.
• Jean-Michel Jacquet, “L’Etat, opérateur du commerce international”, 1989 Journal du Droit International 621.
• Jan Paulsson, “Arbitration without  privity,” 10 ICSID Review/F.I.L.J. 232 (1995).
• Jan Paulsson, “Accepting International Arbitration in Fact –and Not Only in Words”, in Arbitration in Africa 31 (Eugene Cotran and Austin Amissah eds., LCIA/Kluwer, 1996).
• Brigitte Stern, “Le consentement à l’arbitrage CIRDI en matière d’investissement international : que disent les travaux préparatoires ?”, in Souveraineté étatique et marchés internationaux à la fin du XX° siècle, Mélanges en l’honneur de Philippe Kahn 223 (Litec, 2000).
• Brigitte Stern, “ICSID Arbitration and the State’s Increasingly Remote Consent: A propos the Maffezini Case”, in Law in the Service of Human Dignity: Essays in Honour of Florentino Feliciano (Steve Charnowitz and others eds., 2005).

General background materials

• 1958 New York Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards
• UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration, with amendments as adopted in 2006
• UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules, as revised in 2010
• UNCITRAL Works on Transparency in treaty-based investor-State arbitration

Diego P. Fernández Arroyo | Favor arbitrandum in Latin America

Articles

• J. Astigarraga, “A Glimpse into the Cristal Ball. Latin American Arbitration Ten Years Hence”, (2010-2) 10 Revista latino americana de mediación y arbitraje XXIII.
• H. A. Grigera Naón, “Arbitration and Latin America: Progress and Setbacks (2004 Freshfields Lecture)”, (2005-2) Arb. Int. 127.
• F. Mantilla Serrano, “Le traitement législatif de l’arbitrage en Amérique Latine (quelques réformes récentes)”, (2005-3) Revue de l’arbitrage 561.
• A. Wald, “L’évolution récente de l’arbitrage en Amérique latine”, in B. Fauvarque-Cosson / A. Wald (eds.), L’arbitrage en France et en Amérique latine à l’aube du XXIe siècle(Paris: Société de législation comparée, 2008) 217.
  Treaties and legislation .
• Inter-American Convention on International Commercial Arbitration (Panama Convention, 1975).
• Peruvian Legislative Decree No. 1071 (2008).
• Brazilian Law No 9.307 (1996).

François Knoepfler | Provisional measures in international arbitration

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Pierre Mayer (short bio) | Special Course on The new French law on international arbitration

• Décret n° 2011-48 du 13 janvier 2011 portant réforme de l’arbitrage, JORF n°0011 du 14 janvier 2011
• Decree No. 2011-48 of 13 January 2011, reforming the law governing arbitration (English Translation)
• Pierre Mayer, “Arbitrage : entrée en vigueur d’une procédure plus efficace”, in Droit et Patrimoine, mai 2011, p.30 et s.
• Emmanuel Gaillard, Pierre de Lapasse, “Le nouveau droit français de l’arbitrage interne et international”, 3 Recueil Dalloz, 175 (20 janvier 2011) (D. 2011, Chron. 175)
• Emmanuel Gaillard, “France Adopts New Law On Arbitration”, New York Law Journal, Jan. 24, 2011
• Jacques Béguin, Jérôme Orstcheidt et Christophe Seraglini, “Un second souffle pour l’arbitrage. Arbitrage Interne – À propos du décret du 13 janvier 2011”, 11 La Semaine Juridique (édition générale), 545 (14 mars 2011) and, by the same authors, “Un second souffle pour l’arbitrage. Arbitrage International – À propos du décret du 13 janvier 2011”, 16 La Semaine Juridique (édition générale), 765 (18 avril 2011)
• Elie Kleiman et Julie Spinelli, “La réforme du droit de l’arbitrage, sous le double signe de la lisibilité et de l’efficacité : À propos du décret du 13 janvier 2011”, 27 Gazette du Palais, 9 (27 janvier 2011)
• Benoît Le Bars, “La réforme du droit de l’arbitrage”, 4 La Semaine Juridique (édition générale), 142 (24 janv. 2011)
• Charles Jarrosson et Jacques Pellerin, “Le droit français de l’arbitrage après le décret du 13 janvier 2011”, Revue de l’arbitrage, 5 (2011).

Dr. Klaus Sachs (short bio) | Insolvency Proceedings and International Arbitration

Articles

• Eric Loquin, “Le contrôle par le juge français des sentences arbitrales contenant une violation manifeste des règles régissant des procédures collectives ouvertes en France et à l’étranger”, Note following Cass. 1e civ., 6 May 2009 and CA Paris, 9 April 2009, (2010-3) Paris J. Int’l Arb. 889.
• Gabrielle Kaufmann-Kohler, Laurent Lévy and Sabina Sacco, “The Survival of the Arbitration Agreement and Arbitration Proceedings in Cases of Cross-Border Insolvency: An Analysis from the Swiss Perspective”, (2010-2) Paris J. Int’l Arb. 371.
• Georg Naegeli, “Bankruptcy and Arbitration – What Should Prevail? The Impact of Bankruptcy on Pending Arbitral Proceedings”, in 2010 Austrian Arbitration Yearbook 193 (Christian Klausegger, Peter Klein and al. eds., 2010).
• Dominique Vidal, “Arbitration and Insolvency Proceedings: Comments on ICC Awards and Other Recent Decisions”, (2009-20) ICC ICArb. Bull. 51.
• Stefan M. Kröll, “Arbitration and Insolvency Proceedings – Selected Problems”, in Pervasive Problems in International Arbitration(Loukas A. Mistelis and Julian D. M. Lew eds., 2006).
  Cases .
• Decision of the French Cour de cassation, Cass. 1e civ., 6 May 2009, pourvoi No. 08-10.281.
• Decision of the Swiss Federal Tribunal of 31 March 2009, 4A_428/2008 (Vivendi et al.).
• Decision of the High Court of Justice Queen’s Bench Division Commercial Court of 2 October 2008 [2008] EWHC 2155 and of the Court of Appeal [2009] EWCA Civ 677, (Syska and Elektrim SA (in administration) v Vivendi Universal SA).

Simon Greenberg (short bio) | Workshop 1 ­­– ICC Arbitration practice

• Yves Derains & Eric Schwartz, A Guide to the ICC Rules of Arbitration, 2d ed. (The Hague: Kluwer Law, 2005).
• Simon Greenberg, Jose Ricardo Feris & Christian Albanesi, “Consolidation, Joinder, Cross-Claims, Multiparty and Multicontract Arbitrations: Recent ICC Experience” in B Hanotiau & EA Schwartz (eds.) Multiparty Arbitration, Dossier VII, ICC Institute of World Business Law, ICC Publication No. 701 (September 2010).

• Jason Fry & Simon Greenberg, “The Arbitral Tribunal: Applications of Articles 7-12 of the ICC Rules in Recent Cases” (2009) 20:2 ICC International Court of Arbitration Bulletin 12

Brooks W. Daly | Workshop 3 ­­– PCA Arbitration practice

General

• Shabtai Rosenne, The Hague Peace Conferences of 1899 and 1907 and International Arbitration: Reports and Documents (TMC Asser Press, 2001)
• Ruth Mackenzie, et. al., Chapter 4, The Manual on International Courts and Tribunals (Oxford University Press, 2010)
• Belinda Macmahon & Fedelma Claire Smith, eds., Permanent Court of Arbitration Summaries of Awards 1999-2009 (TMC Asser Press, 2010)
• P. Hamilton, H.C. Requena, L van Scheltinga & B. Shifman, eds., The Permanent Court of Arbitration: International Arbitration and Dispute Resolution: Summaries of Awards, Settlement Agreements and Reports (Kluwer Law International, 1999)
• David D. Caron, Matti Pellonpää & Lee M. Caplan, The UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules: A Commentary (Oxford University Press, 2006) .

Articles .

• Paul-Jean Le Cannu & Daniel Drabkin, “Assessing the Role of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Peaceful Settlement of International Disputes” in L’observateur des Nations Unies : Revue de l’Association Française pour les Nations Unies, Section Aix-en-Provence, Vol. 27, Issue 2, at 181 (2009)
• Brooks W. Daly, “The Abyei Arbitration: Procedural Aspects of an Intra-State Border Arbitration”, in Leiden Journal of International Law, Vol. 23, Issue 4, at 801 (2010)
• Brooks W. Daly & Garth Schofield, “Abyei Arbitration” in Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law
• Brooks W. Daly, “Arbitration of International Cultural Property Disputes: The Experience and Initiatives of the Permanent Court of Arbitration” in Art and Cultural Heritage: Law, Policy, and Practice (Cambridge University Press, 2006), at 465
• Brooks W. Daly, “The Permanent Court of Arbitration in Indian Treaties: Its Role, Potential Procedural Problems, and Drafting Solutions” in The Indian Journal of International Law: A Quarterly, Vol. 47, Issue 3, at 359
• Judith Levine, Chapter 24, “Dealing with Arbitrator ‘Issue Conflicts’ in International Arbitration,” in AAA/ICDR Handbook on International Arbitration Practice (Juris Net, 2010)
• Robert Jennings, “The Differences between Conducting a Case in the ICJ and in an Ad Hoc Arbitration Tribunal: An Inside View,” in  Liber Amicorum Judge Shigeru Oda Vol 2., at 893 (Nisuke Ando et. al. eds., 2002)
• Jan Paulsson, “The Timely Arbitrator: Reflections on the Böckstiegel Method” in Arbitration International, the Journal of LCIA Worldwide Arbitration, Vol. 22, Issue 1, at 19 (2006)

References .

• International Bar Association Rules on the Taking of Evidence in International Arbitration (2010)
• Permanent Court of Arbitration Optional Rules for Arbitration between Two States (1992)
• Permanent Court of Arbitration Optional Rules for Arbitrating Disputes between Two Parties of Which Only One is a State (1993)
• International Bar Association Guidelines on the Conflicts of Interest in International Arbitration (2004)
• UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules, G.A. Res. 31/98, U.N. Doc. A/RES/31/98 (Dec. 15, 1976) (1976 UNCITRAL Rules)
• UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules, G.A. Res. 65/22, Art. 26, U.N. Doc. A/RES/65/22 (Dec. 6, 2010) (as revised in 2010 UNCITRAL Rules)

Arbitral Awards .

• Abyei Arbitration, Permanent Court of Arbitration, 2009
• Eurotunnel, Permanent Court of Arbitration, 2007
• Guyana v. Suriname, Permanent Court of Arbitration, 2004

Procedural Orders .

• TCW Group v. The Dominican Republic, Procedural Order No. 1, 2008
• TCW Group v. The Dominican Republic, Procedural Order No. 2, 2008

Eloïse Obadia (short bio) | Workshop 3 ­­– ICSID Arbitration practice

Primary Texts

• Convention on the Settlement of Investment Disputes between States and Nationals of Other States (ICSID Convention), 1965.
• ICSID Arbitration Rules, 2006.
• NAFTA Free Trade Commission, Statement of the Free Trade Commission on Non-Disputing Party Participation.

Textbooks .

• Katia Yannaca-Small ed., Arbitration Under International Investment Agreements: A Guide to the Key Issues (Oxford University Press, 2010).
• Fouchard Gaillard Goldman on International Commercial Arbitration (Kluwer Law International 1999).
• Lucy Reed, Jan Paulsson & Nigel Blackaby, Guide To ICSID Arbitration (Kluwer Law International 2nd ed. 2010).
• Campbell McLachlan, Laurence Shore & Matthew Weiniger, International Investment Arbitration, Substantive Principles (Oxford University Press, 2007)
• Christopher Dugan, Noah D. Rubins, Don Wallace & Borzu Sabahi, Investor-State Arbitration (Oxford University Press, 2008)
• Emmanuel Gaillard, La Jurisprudence du CIRDI (2 volumes, Editions A. Pedone, 2004 and 2010)
• Rudolph Dolzer & Christoph Schreuer, Principles of International Investment Law (Oxford University Press, 2008)
• Nigel Blackaby, Constantine Partasides, Alan Redfern & Martin Hunter, Redfern and Hunter on International Arbitration, Student Version (Oxford University Press, 2009)
• Christoph Schreuer with Loretta Malintoppi, August Reinisch & Anthony Sinclair, The ICSID Convention: A Commentary (Cambridge 2nd ed. 2009)
• Zachary Douglas, The International Law of Investment Claims (Cambridge University Press, 2009)
• Muchlinski, Ortino, Schreuer, eds., The Oxford Handbook of International Investment Law (Oxford University Press, 2008)
• Emmanuel Gaillard ed., The Review of International Arbitral Awards (IAI series on international arbitration No. 6, 2010)

Articles .

• Stanimir Alexandrov, “Enforcement of ICSID Awards: Articles 53 and 54 of the ICSID Convention”, in International Investment Law of the 21st century: Essays in Honour of Christoph Schreuer pp. 322-337. (C. Binder, U. Kriebaum, A. Reinisch & S. Wittich, eds., Oxford University Press, 2009).
• Aron Broches, “Observations on the Finality of ICSID Awards”, 6 ICSID Review – FJIL 312 (1991)
• Emmanuel Gaillard, “Identify or Define? Reflections on the Evolutions of the Concept of Investment in ICSID Practice”, in International Investment Law of the 21st century: Essays in Honour of Christoph Schreuer pp. 403-416. (C. Binder, U. Kriebaum, A. Reinisch & S. Wittich, eds., Oxford University Press, 2009)
• Eloïse Obadia, “Extension of Proceedings Beyond the Original Parties: Non-Disputing Party Participation in Investment Arbitration”, 22 ICSID Review – FJIL 349 (2007)
• Jan Paulsson, “Arbitration Without Privity”, 10 ICSID Review – FJIL 232 (1995)
• Brigitte Stern, “Are There New Limits on Access to International Arbitration?” 25 ICSID Review – FJIL 26 (210)