New Trends in International Commercial Arbitration

New Trends in International Commercial Arbitration Abstract: The purpose of my thesis is to analyze two leading trends in international commercial arbitration. Those trends are (i) the influence of electronic means of communication on arbitration proceedings and (ii) confidentiality and its actual development in respect to implied duty of confidentiality in arbitration proceedings. The main methodology of research was to compare recently revised arbitration rules with its previous wordings (UNCITRAL Rules, ICC Rules, SCC Rules and CAM Rules) and examine changes related to the above enlisted topics. Furthermore diverse sources were used in the thesis such as arbitration rules of different institutions, experts' publications and also e-mail correspondence with representatives of observed arbitration institutions. The thesis is composed of three chapters. The first chapter summarizes actual revisions of observed arbitration rules without making any conclusions. The second chapter describes the influence of modern technologies on arbitration proceedings. The chapter consists of four parts. The first part introduces online arbitration and presents possible ambiguities in this term. The second part focuses on specific stages of arbitration proceedings and analyzes in detail, how those stages are influenced by..