International commercial arbitration is an alternative method of resolving disputes between private parties arising out of commercial transactions conducted across national boundaries that allows the parties to avoid litigation in national courts.
Module Overview
The course aims to provide students with a firm grounding in the legal aspects of international commercial and investment arbitration in the oil and gas sector as well as offering practical skills on how to conduct such arbitrations. The course will include a range of topics including an introduction and history of arbitration, applicable laws, procedure and practice, arbitration clauses, and the arbitral tribunal, the jurisdiction of the arbitral tribunal, the conduct of arbitral proceedings, the role of the national courts, the award, and challenges to the award, recognition and enforcement of arbitral award.
The primary focus will be on international commercial and investment arbitration in practice, combining a substantive legal understanding together with a practitioner’s perspective.