FREE LECTURE: International Arbitration and Jurisprudential Clashes

Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (ACICA) and Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (Australia) are delighted to invite you to a public lecture hosted by The University of Western Australia Law School by Dr Dean Lewis.

The talk will first identify the reasons for the adoption of the Model Law and how these contribute to an understanding of how the Model Law should be interpreted in an internationalist way. It will then explore the different ways each jurisdiction has adopted the Model Law and whether those differences have impacted on how the courts have approached its interpretation.

This requires a historical review of all case law on the Model Law in each jurisdiction to identify the extent to which the internationalist approach has been adopted. The talk will go on to examine how the courts of each jurisdiction have decided issues relating to setting aside of awards in a uniform way. The talk is thus a comparative analysis of which of the jurisdictions have more effectively achieved the Model Law’s objectives.