Dr. Jan Kleinheisterkamp, NAB 7.34

LLM (Corporate and/or Commercial Law and International Business Law). This course is capped at 60 students. Students must apply through Graduate Course Choice on LSEforYou.

Course on arbitration in previous studies or practical experience in the field.

This course aims at giving students who already are acquainted with the fundamentals of arbitration the possibility to go into depth into selected problems of international commercial arbitration. The course is designed to allow intense discussions of these problems in order to raise the sensitivity for the issues at stake and to lead to a research oriented approach. Despite its academic outset, the course is highly relevant for those wanting to specialise in arbitration practice, as the theoretical problems have a most significant impact on practical solutions. The course will treat a selection of topical contemporary issues of international commercial arbitration, such as the role of internationally mandatory rules of law, arbitration & insolvency, the scope of the competence-competence principle; arbitration and fraud and corruption, or the enforcement of awards set aside abroad. The course seeks to be as topical as possible, so that content may change in the light of new developments.

Weekly two-hour seminars in LT; two hour revision session in ST.

One group presentation in the seminar and an essay of 2,500 words.

G. Born, International Commercial Arbitration - Cases and Materials (Kluwer 2011); id. International Commercial Arbitration (Kluwer 2009); N. Blackaby / C. Partasides, Redfern & Hunter on International Commercial Arbitration (5th edn, OUP 2009); J.-F. Poudret / S. Besson, Comparative Law of International Commercial Arbitration (Sweet & Maxwell 2007); E. Gaillard / J. Savage, Fouchard Gaillard Goldman on International Commercial Arbitration (Kluwer 1999). Cases and doctrinal articles for each topic.

One two-hour examination (100%) in the ST.