Arbitration
Books
- Cultural Property Disputes: The Role of Arbitration in Resolving Non Contractual Disputes
New York: Transnational Publishers/Brill, 2004, Isabelle Fellrath - Etudes de procédure et d'arbitrage
en l'honneur du Professeur Jean-François Poudret, Lausanne (co-editor with Jacques Haldy, Jean-Marc Rapp), 2001, Phidias Ferrari - Private international law and arbitration, basic documents
Helbing & Lichtenhahn, Basel, (co-editor), 1995, Pierre-Yves Tschanz, with Prof. Andreas Bucher - International Arbitration in Switzerland
Helbing & Lichtenhahn, Basel, 1989, Pierre-Yves Tschanz, with Prof. Andreas Bucher
Articles
- Supreme Court rules on Private International Law Act
ILO, May 2012, Frank Spoorenberg, Nathalie Buergenmeier, Download - Consent to Arbitrate: A Prerequisite to Arbitration
Journal of International Trade and Arbitration Law/ Uluslararası Ticaret ve Tahkim Hukuku Dergisi (UTTDER), February 2012, Frank Spoorenberg, Isabelle Fellrath, Download - Force Majeure and Hardship Clauses in Energy Supply Agreements
K. Makuch, R. Pereira (eds), Environmental and Energy Law, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Chapter 12, 2012, Frank Spoorenberg, Isabelle Fellrath - Restructuring the domestic electricity market and the progressive phasing out of nuclear energy in the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster
EU Energy Law & Policy Yearbook, 2012, Isabelle Fellrath - Chronique de jurisprudence étrangère (Suisse)
Rev. arb, 2011, Pierre-Yves Tschanz, Isabelle Fellrath
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- Energy Law: Swiss Report
European Energy Journal, pp. 62-65, 2011, Isabelle Fellrath, Download - Commentaire Romand de la Loi fédérale sur le droit international privé (LDIP) / Convention de Lugano (CL) (éd. Andreas Bucher), Helbing & Lichtenhahn, 1re édition, 2011, LDIP Art. 7 (Exception d’arbitrage), LDIP 177 (Arbitrabilité), LDIP 178 (Convention d’arbitrage), LDIP 179 (Tribunal arbitral/Constitution), 180 (Tribunal arbitral/Récusation des arbitres), 181 (Litispendance), LDIP 190 al. 2 let. a (Caractère définitif. Recours/Composition irrégulière), LDIP 190 al. 2 let. b (Caractère définitif. Recours/Compétence), 2011, Pierre-Yves Tschanz
- De l’opportunité de modifier l’art. 7 LDIP
ASA Bull., pp. 478-484, 2010, Pierre-Yves Tschanz - Arbitrages et Procédures Parallèles
Arbitrage Internes et International – Comparativa n° 79, pp. 35-51, 2010, Pierre-Yves Tschanz - Chronique de jurisprudence étrangère (Suisse)
Rev. arb., pp. 877-909, 2010, Pierre-Yves Tschanz, Isabelle Fellrath - Contradictory decisions in international arbitration
The Law and Practice of International Courts and Tribunal, Vol 8 pp. 91-113, 2009, Frank Spoorenberg, with Jorge Viñuales - Offsetting, sale/purchase losses and profits in case of breach of commercial agreement under Swiss law and the Vienna Convention on the International Sales of Goods
IPRax 4/2009, pp.357-362, 2009, Frank Spoorenberg, Isabelle Fellrath - Compensation for Non-expropriatory Breaches of International Investment Law
The Contribution of the Argentine Awards, 26 J. of Int’l Arbitration, pp. 729-743, 2009, Pierre-Yves Tschanz, with Jorge Viñuales - Chronique de jurisprudence étrangère (Suisse)
Rev. arb., pp. 827-872, 2009, Pierre-Yves Tschanz, Isabelle Fellrath - Arbitrage international et sécurité juridique
Mélanges en l’honneur de François Dessemontet, E. Philippin et al. (eds.), CEDIDAC, Vol. 80, pp. 405-412, 2009, Pierre-Yves Tschanz - Chronique de jurisprudence étrangère (Suisse)
Rev. arb., pp. 1-27, 2008, Pierre-Yves Tschanz, Isabelle Fellrath - A suitable forum for Med-Arb
(also published on Mondaq, 31 January 2008), ILO, December 2007, Pierre-Yves Tschanz, Download - The Award – How to structure it, how detailed? Reasoning and dispositive part, adding insult to injury?
The Resolution of Dispute – From the Hearing to the Award, ASA Special Series No. 29, pp. 25-35, 2007, Pierre-Yves Tschanz - Chronique de jurisprudence étrangère (Suisse)
Rev. arb., pp. 861-881, 2007, Pierre-Yves Tschanz, Isabelle Fellrath - Chronique de jurisprudence étrangère (Suisse)
Rev. arb., pp. 827-855, 2006, Pierre-Yves Tschanz, Isabelle Fellrath - The Swiss Supreme Court Decides: India v. Crédit Agricole Suisse,
X/4 Art Antiquity and Law, pp. 401-413, 2005, Isabelle Fellrath - Chronique de jurisprudence étrangère (Suisse)
Rev. arb., pp. 171-196, 2005, Pierre-Yves Tschanz, Isabelle Fellrath - Swiss rules of international arbitration
(also published on Mondaq, 28 July 2004), ILO, August 2004, Pierre-Yves Tschanz, Download - Advocacy in International Commercial Arbitration: Switzerland
The Art of Advocacy in International Arbitration, D.B. Bishop (ed.), JurisPublishing, pp. 195-232, 2004, Pierre-Yves Tschanz - Vers un arbitrage international préventif ?
Société suisse des juristes (SSJ), Rapports et Communications, pp. 7-74, 2002, Pierre-Yves Tschanz - The Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards under the New-York Convention, Recent Developments
Stockholm Arbitration Report, pp. 1-18, 2001, Frank Spoorenberg, with Carolyn B. Lamm - Arbitrator's conflicts of interests: Switzerland
Conflicts of Interest in International Commercial Arbitration, ASA Special Series No. 18, pp. 65-79, 2001, Pierre-Yves Tschanz - Chronique de jurisprudence suisse
Rev. arb., pp. 885-912, 2001, Pierre-Yves Tschanz, with Jean-Marie Vuillemin - New rules on evidence in international arbitration
(also published on Mondaq, 17 January 2000), ILO, February 2000, Pierre-Yves Tschanz, Download - Chronique de jurisprudence suisse : Indépendance des arbitres en droit suisse
Rev. arb., pp. 523-536, 2000, Pierre-Yves Tschanz - The Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Geneva's Arbitration Rules and their Expedited Procedure
10/4 J. Int’l Arb., pp. 51-58, 1993, Pierre-Yves Tschanz - Le choix de l'arbitrage
Baurecht/Droit de la construction, pp. 56-63, 1993, Pierre-Yves Tschanz - An Introduction to the Revised Arbitration Rules of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Geneva
2 Am. Rev. Int'l Arb., pp. 163-183, 1991, Pierre-Yves Tschanz - A Breakthrough in International Arbitration: Switzerland's New Act
24 Int'l Lawyer, pp. 1107-1118, 1990, Pierre-Yves Tschanz - The New Swiss International Arbitration Act
Int'l Bus. L. J., pp.437-456, 1988, Pierre-Yves Tschanz - International Arbitration in the United States: the Need for a New Act
3/4 Arb. Int'l, pp. 309-328, 1987, Pierre-Yves Tschanz - Le droit américain et la convention de New York
International Commercial Arbitration - Proceedings of the 1st Laval Conference, p. 249, 1986, Pierre-Yves Tschanz - Contrats d'Etat et mesures unilatérales de l'Etat devant l'arbitre international
74 Rev. crit. droit int'l privé, pp. 47-84, 1985, Pierre-Yves Tschanz - The Contributions of the Aminoil Award to the Law of State Contracts
18 Int'l Lawyer, pp. 245-276, 1984, Pierre-Yves Tschanz
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Case notes
- Supreme Court saves pathological arbitration clause
(also published with Mondaq, February 2012), ILO, March 2012, Frank Spoorenberg, Isabelle Fellrath, Download - Third parties and arbitration clauses in promissor/promissee contracts ?
ILO, November 2011, Frank Spoorenberg, Isabelle Fellrath, Download - Supreme Court confirms benchmarks on pre-arbitration conciliation duties
ILO, August 2011, Frank Spoorenberg, Isabelle Fellrath, Download - Parties' right to be heard on costs
ILO, July 2011, Frank Spoorenberg, Isabelle Fellrath, Download - Validity of the conventional waiver of judicial challenge against Swiss international arbitration awards
ILO, July 2011, Frank Spoorenberg, Isabelle Fellrath, Download
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- Court clarifies position on additional awards and prayers for relief
ILO, May 2011, Frank Spoorenberg, Download - Supreme Court rules on prior involvement of arbitrators
ILO, March 2011, Frank Spoorenberg, Isabelle Fellrath, Download - Party-appointed Arbitrators and Chairman Must Meet the Same Requirement of Indepence and Impartiality
(also published on Mondaq, February, 2011), ILO, February 2011, Frank Spoorenberg, Nathalie Buergenmeier, Download - When an offer to arbitrate is binding on the offering party ?
(also published on Mondaq, November 3, 2010), ILO, November 2010, Frank Spoorenberg, Isabelle Fellrath, Download - International award annulled on grounds of procedural public policy infringement
(also published on Mondaq, July 15, 2010), ILO, July 2010, Frank Spoorenberg, Isabelle Fellrath, Download - No immediate review of arbitral interim measures
(also published on Mondaq, 27 May 2010), ILO, June 2010, Frank Spoorenberg, Isabelle Fellrath, Download - Supreme Court: arbitrators' broad discretion to construe contractual concepts
(also published on Mondaq, April 2010), ILO, April 2010, Frank Spoorenberg, Isabelle Fellrath, Download - Switzerland: Insolvency – Debt Restructuring Moratorium - "lis pendens" (1988 Lugano Convention)
Mondaq, March 2010, Frank Spoorenberg, Isabelle Fellrath - Arbitration agreements and piercing the corporate veil
(also published on Mondaq, on 27 October 2009), ILO, November 2009, Frank Spoorenberg, Isabelle Fellrath, Download - The uneasy relationship between arbitration and bankruptcy
(also published on Mondaq, 14 August 2009), ILO, July 2009, Frank Spoorenberg, Isabelle Fellrath, Download - Recognition of a foreign award: when is an award binding?
(also published on Mondaq, 14 May 2009), ILO, May 2009, Frank Spoorenberg, Download - Expert determination and arbitration: an uneasy but necessary distinction
ILO, February 2009, Frank Spoorenberg, Download - Arbitration clause extended to non-signatories in case of performance guarantee
ILO, December 2008, Frank Spoorenberg, Download - Subject matter jurisdiction over separate contracts between the same parties
(also published on Mondaq, 16 May 2008), ILO, May 2008, Pierre-Yves Tschanz, Download - Supreme Court clarifies pre-arbitration conciliation requirement
(also published on Mondaq, 20 September 2007), ILO, September 2007, Pierre-Yves Tschanz, Download - Arbitrators may decide jurisdictional issues pending before foreign court
(also published on Mondaq, 27 April 2007), ILO, May 2007, Pierre-Yves Tschanz, Download - Court grants first revision of arbitral award
(also published on Mondaq,7 February 2007), ILO, February 2007, Pierre-Yves Tschanz, Download - Confidentiality of Swiss Supreme Court review of arbitral awards
(also published on Mondaq, 28 September 2006), ILO, September 2006, Pierre-Yves Tschanz, Download - Arbitral Tribunals' decisions on competition law are unreviewable in Switzerland
Arbitration Newsletter, 2006, Pierre-Yves Tschanz, Download - Immediate appeal against interim awards
(also published on Mondaq, 31 May 2005), ILO, May 2005, Pierre-Yves Tschanz, Download - Awards based on grounds not submitted by the parties
(also published on Mondaq, 8 November 2004), ILO, November 2004, Pierre-Yves Tschanz, Download - Arbitration clause need not mention all parties bound to arbitrate
(also published on Mondaq, 17 March 2004), ILO, April 2004, Pierre-Yves Tschanz, Download - Contesting arbitrators' fees
(also published on Mondaq, 18 November 2003), ILO, November 2003, Pierre-Yves Tschanz, Download - The arbitral tribunal's power to amend contracts
ILO, June 2003, Pierre-Yves Tschanz, Download - When is a partial award binding on the arbitral tribunal?
(also published on Mondaq, 14 March 2003), ILO, December 2002, Pierre-Yves Tschanz, Download - Uncooperative arbitrators need not delay award
(also published on Mondaq, 28 August 2002), ILO, September 2002, Pierre-Yves Tschanz, Download - Separability of the arbitration agreement and assignment
(also published on Mondaq, 3 May 2002), ILO, May 2002, Pierre-Yves Tschanz, Download - An Arbitrator’s lack of cooperation need not hold up award, February 2002, Pierre-Yves Tschanz, Download
- Note - Tribunal Fédéral Suisse (1re Cour civile), 16 octobre 2001 (Compétence et transfert des clauses compromissoires)
Rev. arb., 763-769, 2002, Pierre-Yves Tschanz - May and must arbitrators supply their own legal grounds?
(also published on Mondaq, 5 November 2001), ILO, November 2001, Pierre-Yves Tschanz, Download - Separability of the arbitration agreement and assignment, October 2001, Pierre-Yves Tschanz, Download
- Arbitrators' jurisdiction limited by waiver issue pending in foreign Courts
(also published on Mondaq, 30 July 2001), ILO, August 2001, Pierre-Yves Tschanz, with Sébastien Roy, Download - Delay in challenging biased expert
(also published on Mondaq, 6 February 2001), ILO, February 2001, Pierre-Yves Tschanz, with Sébastien Roy, Download - Costs in awards denying jurisdiction
(also published on Mondaq, 3 August 2000), ILO, August 2000, Pierre-Yves Tschanz, Download - Failure to hear evidence
(also published on Mondaq,12 May 2000), ILO, June 2000, Pierre-Yves Tschanz, Download - The Supreme Court has exclusive jurisdiction to entertain applications to revise international arbitral awards, whether interim or final
ILO, August 1999, Pierre-Yves Tschanz, Download - No appeal against Court
ILO, August 1999, Pierre-Yves Tschanz, Download - Location, location, location
ILO, August 1999, Pierre-Yves Tschanz, Download - Arbitrators sitting in Switzerland are not bound by foreign Court decision on jurisdiction
ILO, August 1999, Pierre-Yves Tschanz, Download - Appointing an arbitrator
ILO, August 1999, Pierre-Yves Tschanz, Download - Validity of arbitration clauses
ILO, August 1999, Pierre-Yves Tschanz - Arbitrators' independence
(also published on Mondaq, 17 June 1999), ILO, June 1999, Pierre-Yves Tschanz, Download - Greater or different award to be set aside as ultra petita
ILO, March 1999, Pierre-Yves Tschanz, Download - Note - Tribunal fédéral suisse 11 mars 1992 - société P. v. société S. Ltd (Admissibilité du recours en révision)
Rev. Arb., pp. 115-123, 1993, Pierre-Yves Tschanz - Note - Tribunal Fédéral Suisse (1re Cour civile) 9 avril 1991 - Clear Star Limited v. Centrala Morska Importowo-Eksportova «Centromor» et Centromor SA (Quelques précisions apportées par le Tribunal fédéral suisse à la LDIP)
Rev. Arb., pp. 709-719, 1991, Pierre-Yves Tschanz - Note - Tribunal fédéral suisse (1re Ch. civ.) 15 mars 1990 (Le maintien en vigueur de la clause compromissoire en cas de résiliation conventionnelle du contrat)
Rev. arb., pp. 921-930, 1990, Pierre-Yves Tschanz - Note - Cour d'appel de Paris (1re Ch. urg.) 30 novembre 1988 - Société Korsnas Marma v. société Durand-Auzias; Cour d'appel de Paris (1re Ch. Suppl.) 14 février 1989 - Société Ofer Brothers v. The Tokyo Marine and fire Insurance Co ltd et autres (Le contrôle judiciaire de la validité et du domaine de la clause compromissoire: émergence d'une nouvelle règle matérielle?)
Rev. Arb., pp. 691-710, 1989, Pierre-Yves Tschanz - Note - Tribunal fédéral suisse (1re Cour civile) 16 septembre 1988 - Société Ligier (France) et société Diffusia (Genève) v. société Alfa Lancia industriale (Italie) (La récusation d'un arbitre en droit suisse (intercantonal et international privé) Rev. Arb., pp. 505-513, 1989, Pierre-Yves Tschanz
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Speaking engagements
- How Should Arbitrators Handle Requests for Interim Relief
27th Annual Colloquium of Arbitrators on Interim Relief in Arbitration, School of International Arbitration and ICC Institute of World Business Law (dir.), London, March 2012, Pierre-Yves Tschanz - Why Does Arbitration Matter ? Some Practical Insights
Brown Bag Seminar, No Peace Without Justice, Brussels, January 2012, Isabelle Fellrath - Methodology to instruct and monitor counsel in complex arbitration/litigation proceedings, while securing the desired outcome
15th Annual Roundtable, General Counsels, Geneva, June 2010, Pierre-Yves Tschanz, Frank Spoorenberg