Mr Manuel Penades-Fons

This course is available on the Master of Laws and Master of Laws (extended part-time study). This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit.

This course is capped at 60 students. Students must apply through Graduate Course Choice on LSEforYou.

Students must have completed Fundamentals of International Commercial Arbitration (LL4C5).

Or a course on arbitration in previous studies or solid 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 based on student presentations and intense discussions of these problems in order to raise the sensitivity for the issues at stake. The course is highly relevant for those wanting to specialise in arbitration practice, as the theoretical problems have a significant impact on practical solutions. The course will treat a selection of topical contemporary issues of international commercial arbitration, such as the law applicable to arbitration agreements; the scope of the competence-competence principle; the role of internationally mandatory rules of law arbitration & insolvency, 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.

20 hours of seminars in the LT. 2 hours of seminars in the ST.

There will be a reading week in week 6

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

G. Born, International Arbitration: Law and Practice (Kluwer 2012); 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).

Exam (100%, duration: 2 hours) in the main exam period.