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Book Review: Redfern & Hunter on International Arbitration by Nigel Blackaby, Constantine Partasides ,Martin Hunter


Title: Redfern & Hunter on International Arbitration

Author: Nigel Blackaby
Author:Constantine Partasides
Author:Martin Hunter
Item Weight 2.21 pounds
Paperback 776 pages
ISBN-10 0199557195
ISBN-13 978-0199557196
Product Dimensions 9.6 x 1.4 x 6.7 inches
Price:NGN 15,000
Customer Reviews 4.5 out of 5 stars 16Reviews
Publisher Oxford University Press; 5th Edition (December 20, 2009)
Language: English
Best Sellers Rank #2,085,055 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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#337 in Arbitration, Negotiation & Mediation (Books)
#423 in Commercial Business Law
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Product Description
Since it was first published in 1986, Redfern & Hunter’s commentary on international arbitration has been widely hailed as the leading text on the subject, and essential reading for lawyers and arbitrators around the world. Based on the four authors’ extensive personal experience as counsel and arbitrators, this fifth edition provides a newly updated explanation of every element of the law and practice of international arbitration. With a focus on the practice as well as the theory of international arbitration, this text provides an invaluable guide to the international arbitral process, from the drafting of the arbitration agreement to the enforcement of arbitral awards. The fifth edition updates this classic text to incorporate reference to all of the latest significant developments in the field and provides a fuller treatment of investment treaty arbitration, and international arbitration beyond the UK and Europe. In particular, the fifth edition contains substantially increased coverage of the law and practice of international arbitration in the United States, Latin America, China and India.
Following the chronology of an arbitration, the book covers applicable laws, arbitration agreements, the establishment and powers of a tribunal, the conduct of proceedings and the role of domestic courts. In addition, it provides an in-depth examination of the award itself (including the challenge, recognition and enforcement of arbitral awards), and comments on the special considerations applying to arbitrations brought under investment treaties. It draws on examples of the rules and practice of arbitration at the International Chamber of Commerce, the London Court of International Arbitration, the American Arbitration Association, the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes and the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law.
Each of the book’s editions has built on the strengths of its predecessor, achieved widespread acclaim and been variously reviewed as “one of the most authoritative in its field”, “an excellent book – comprehensive, lucid, stylish and challenging”, and “a practitioner’s book of real quality and practical value, well organised and readably and clearly written”. This latest edition reinforces and strengthens the book’s standing as the authoritative guide to international commercial arbitration.
Review
“This latest edition makes a great contribution to the field of international commercial arbitration. It contains significant new information keeping pace with developments in this dynamic field. It is an indispensable guide for anyone involved in, studying, or simply interested in, international commercial arbitration.”
— Legal Week
Review of 4th Edition
“The most reliable and useful single-volume treatment of international commercial arbitration in the market today.”
— Professor Richard Graving, South Texas College of Law
Review of Previous Edition
“For most it is the first resource they turn to and they are rarely disappointed. This edition is indispensable and improved in almost every respect.”
— Journal of Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Volume 68, Number 1, Feb 2002
Review of Previous Edition
“Redfern and Hunter is like a good claret – it improves with age.”
— Neil Kaplan QC, Hong Kong
Review of 4th Edition
”A detailed practitioner’s handbook which should not be missing in the library of anyone involved in arbitration.”
— Friedrich Blase, 4 Vindobona Journal of International Commercial Law and Arbitration, Issue 1 (2000) 95-98
Review of 3rd Edition
“The Fifth edition of this book is straightforward, well-written, and accessible and provides a practical and detailed treatment of the theory and practice of international arbitration. I recommend it to any academic library that collects in the area of international arbitration, as well as any library that serves arbitrators, counsel for arbitrations, or practitioners who employ arbitration clauses in international commercial contracts. For many reasons, including improved clarity, organization, and appearance, this edition is an improvement over previous ones.”
–Jennifer Duperon, Legal Information Librarian & Coordinator of Electronic Services at Boston University, AALL Spectrum Blog
“It is a va
“This latest edition … makes a great contribution to the field of international commercial arbitration. It contains significant new information keeping pace with developments in this dynamic field … It is an indispensable guide for anyone involved in, studying, or simply interested in, international commercial arbitration.” (Legal Week – Review of 4th Edition)
“The most reliable and useful single-volume treatment of international commercial arbitration in the market today.”
(Prof Richard Graving, South Texas College of Law – Review of Previous Edition)
“For most it is the first resource they turn to and they are rarely disappointed. This edition is indispensable and improved in almost every respect.”
(Journal of Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Volume 68, Number 1, Feb 2002 – Review of Previous Edition)
“Redfern and Hunter is like a good claret – it improves with age.”
(Neil Kaplan QC, Hong Kong – Review of 4th Edition)
”It is a detailed practitioner’s handbook which should not be missing in the library of anyone involved in arbitration.”
(Friedrich Blase, 4 Vindobona Journal of International Commercial Law and Arbitration, Issue 1 (2000) 95-98 – Review of 3rd Edition)
“The Fifth edition of this book is straightforward, well-written, and accessible and provides a practical and detailed treatment of the theory and practice of international arbitration. I recommend it to any academic library that collects in the area of international arbitration, as well as any library that serves arbitrators, counsel for arbitrations, or practitioners who employ arbitration clauses in international commercial contracts.
For many reasons, including improved clarity, organization, and appearance, this edition is an improvement over previous ones.”
–Jennifer Duperon, Legal Information Librarian & Coordinator of Electronic Services at Boston University, AALL Spectrum Blog
About the Author
Nigel Blackaby is a partner in the international arbitration group and head of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer’s US and Latin America international arbitration groups. Nigel acts as counsel and arbitrator with a particular focus on Latin America. He has represented foreign investors and states in arbitration proceedings under the auspices of the ICSID, UNCITRAL, ICC, LCIA and AAA in English, Spanish and Portuguese. Nigel is an editor of Arbitration International, a council member of the LCIA Latin America Users’ Committee and of the Advisory Board of the Investment Treaty Forum of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law. He is editor and co-author of International Arbitration in Latin America (2003), a co-author of A Guide to ICSID Arbitration (2004) and a co-author of the fourth edition of Redfern & Hunter on International Commercial Arbitration (2004). He is an occasional postgraduate lecturer in arbitration at the University of Paris I – Sorbonne.
Constantine Partasides is a partner and head of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer’s international arbitration group in London. He has acted as counsel and arbitrator in approximately fifty ad hoc and institutional arbitrations, including under the rules of the ICC, LCIA, AAA and ICSID. In recent years, Constantine has specialized in arbitrations in the energy sector arising under contracts and investment treaties. Constantine co-authored the fourth edition of ‘Law and Practice of International Commercial Arbitration’; he is the news editor of the Journal International Arbitration Law Review, and a council-member of the LCIA’s European Users Council.
Alan Redfern is a member of One Essex Court. He has acted as chairman, sole arbitrator or party-nominated arbitrator in numerous disputes, including ad hoc arbitrations, as well as those conducted under the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules and under the leading arbitral regimes, including ICC, LCIA, UNCITRAL, AAA and ICDR. Alan is a vice-president of the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce in Paris. He is also a non-executive director of the London Court of International Arbitration. He is on the international panel of the American Arbitration Association and of arbitral institutions in Europe, the Middle East and elsewhere.
Martin Hunter was a partner of the firm known as Freshfields from 1967 to 1994, latterly leading the firm’s International Arbitration Group. After retiring from the firm he requalified as a barrister and joined Essex Court Chambers, where he continues to practice in the field of international arbitration, both as counsel and as an international arbitrator.
In 1995 he was appointed to the newly-established Sweet & Maxwell chair of international dispute resolution at Nottingham Trent University , and has undertaken teaching assignments at King’s College London and at universities around the world.
He is chairman of the Board of Trustees of DIAC; was Deputy Chairman of the committee that advised the UK Government on the 1996 Arbitration Act; is a member of ICCA; and has served on the Arbitration Courts of the ICC and LCIA .
He has also been published extensively extensively in specialist arbitration journals and elsewhere over the last twenty-five years.

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