International Arbitration the Coming of a New Age? ICCA Congress Series No. 17

The is volume collects the articles emanating from the twenty-first Congressof the International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA) held in Singapore in 2012.1t opens with a thought-provoking keynote address on the present Golden Age of arbitration and its potential weaknesses and covers both practical and theoretica I topics addressed by renowned arbitration practitioners and scholars. Two principal themes are addressed. The first deals with various aspects of the arbitration proceedings- from the agreement to arbitrate and the cernmencement of proceedings (with an introduetion to i- and e-arbitration) to the evidence-collecting phase, the tribunal's decision and the issue of legal and arbitration costs. The second examines the interaction between legal orders and national courts and arbitration; the need for and role of ethica I codes of behavior; the ba la nee between investment proteetion and "policy space"; the future of ICSID; and the role of technologica I tools in arbitration. The volume doses with the report of a judicia I debate among eleven senior judges addressing issues in the application of the 1958 New York Convention.