LL4C6      Half Unit
Advanced Issues of International Commercial Arbitration

This information is for the 2018/19 session.

Teacher responsible

Dr Jan Kleinheisterkamp NAB 7.09

Availability

This course is available on the LLM (extended part-time), LLM (full-time) and University of Pennsylvania Law School LLM Visiting Students. 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.

Pre-requisites

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.

Course content

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.

Teaching

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

There will be a reading week in week 6

Formative coursework

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

Indicative reading

G. Born, International Arbitration: Law and Practice (2nd edn, Kluwer 2015); N. Blackaby & C. Partasides, Redfern & Hunter on International Commercial Arbitration (6th edn, OUP 2015); 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).

Assessment

Exam (100%, duration: 2 hours, reading time: 15 minutes) in the summer exam period.

Key facts

Department: Law

Total students 2017/18: 33

Average class size 2017/18: 17

Controlled access 2017/18: Yes

Value: Half Unit

Guidelines for interpreting course guide information

Personal development skills

  • Communication
  • Specialist skills

Course survey results

(2014/15 - 2016/17 combined)

1 = "best" score, 5 = "worst" score

The scores below are average responses.

Response rate: 89%

Question

Average
response

Reading list (Q2.1)

1.5

Materials (Q2.3)

1.6

Course satisfied (Q2.4)

1.6

Integration (Q2.6)

1.6

Contact (Q2.7)

1.8

Feedback (Q2.8)

1.7

Recommend (Q2.9)

Yes

83%

Maybe

12%

No

5%