Dr Paul MacMahon

This course is available on the Executive Master of Laws (ELLM). This course is not available as an outside option to students on other programmes.

Available to Executive LLM students only. This course will be offered on the Executive LLM during the four year degree period. The Law School will not offer all Executive LLM courses every year, although some of the more popular courses may be offered in each year, or more than once each year. Please note that whilst it is the Law School's intention to offer all Executive LLM courses, its ability to do so will depend on the availability of the staff member in question. For more information please refer to the Law School website. 

Fundamentals of International Commercial Arbitration (LL415E) or equivalent course in previous studies or relevant practical experience with international arbitration

Building on a foundational understanding of international commercial arbitration, this course offers students the opportunity to engage with some of the most challenging and contested questions in the field. It is highly relevant for those pursuing careers in arbitration practice: the theoretical problems it addresses have direct and significant implications for how disputes are conducted and resolved.

Topics are selected for their contemporary significance and may include: anti-suit and anti-arbitration injunctions; third-party funding; emergency arbitrators and interim measures; corruption; sanctions; artifical intelligence; the extension of arbitration agreements to non-signatories; confidentiality; insolvency.

24-26 hours of contact time.

Students will have the option of completing a formative assessment set by their teacher. 

Gary Born, International Commercial Arbitration (3rd edn, Kluwer 2020); Nigel Blackaby and Constantine Partasides, Redfern & Hunter on International Commercial Arbitration (7th edn, OUP 2022)

Oral examination (100%).