The UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules

1 Introduction; Part I - Fundamental Principles and the Legal Framework within which the Arbitral Tribunal Operates; 2 General Provisions and Place of Arbitration; 3 Applicable Law; Part II - Arbitral Procedures to Control the Selection and Conduct of Arbitrators; 4 The Number and Selection of Arbitrators; 5 The Challenge of Arbitrators; 6 Resignation, Failure to Act, and the Consequences of the Replacement of an Arbitrator; 7 The Appointing Authority and Composition under the UNCITRAL Rules; Part III - The Initiation of the Arbitration and the Identification and Clarification of the Issues Presented; 8 The Notice Initiating Arbitration; 9 The Choice of Language; 10 Notice and the Calculation of Periods of Time; 11 Statements of Claim and Defence; 12 Pleas as to the Jurisdiction of the Arbitral Tribunal; 13 Amendments to the Claim or Defence; 14 Further Written Statements and Time Limits on Submission; 15 The Question of Interim Measures; Part IV - The Presentation of the Case: Evidence and Hearings; 16 Evidence; 17 The Hearings; 18 Experts; Part V - Default and Waiver; 19 Default; 20 Waiver; Part VI - The Award; 21 Decisions; 22 Form and Effect; 23 Settlement and Other Grounds for Termination; 24 Post-Award Proceedings; 25 The Cost of Arbitration

David Caron is the C. William Maxeiner Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of California at Berkeley. He currently serves as President of the American Society of International Law, Co-Director of the Law of the Sea Institute, and as a member of the Board of Editors of the American Journal of International Law. He presently serves also as a member of the U.S. Department of State Advisory Committee on Public International Law and of the Investment Subcommittee of U.S. Secretary of State's Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy. He is a member of the Bars of the State of California and of England and Wales, and is a Barrister with Chambers at 20 Essex Street. ; Lee M. Caplan is an Attorney-Adviser in the Office of International Claims and Investment Disputes of the US Department of State.

Review(s) from previous edition "No one involved in an international arbitration can afford to be without this Commentary. This Commentary, the work of three former legal assistants at the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal (each since risen to important public duties in the field), exhaustively analyzes each Article of the Rules, providing pertinent negotiating history as well as a synopsis of every known ruling interpreting it, and conveniently includes generous excerpts from those rulings, thus sparing one the need to hunt down the original. Inevitably, this wealth of illuminated precedent has relevance for other arbitration regimes, too. Hence my advice: Don't arbitrate without it! - Judge Charles N. Brower, 20 Essex Street Chambers, Judge of the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal

"The UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules are frequently used as a basis for ad hoc and institutional arbitration, notably by the Iran-US Claims Tribunal and by NAFTA Tribunals. This work is, as it states, a commentary on the Rules and an extremely valuable one. But it is much more that that, because it offers a compendium of practice under the Rules with useful extracts from decisions, reported and unreported, all presented in a systematic and accessible way. It will immediately become the standard work on its subject and an essential part of every arbitration lawyer's library." - James Crawford, Whewell Professor of International Law, University of Cambridge

"The UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules: A Commentary by Caron, Pellonpaa and Caplan is already on my keep-to-hand shelf. Their approach is long overdue: on a Rule-by-Rule basis (in pragmatic rather than numerical order) they present commentary based on the drafting history, the pioneering jurisprudence of the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal, and the "blooming practice" of NAFTA Chapter 11 and other tribunals, followed immediately by verbatim excerpts from all significant decisions. This book will save internat