New trends in international commercial arbitration

New trends in international commercial arbitration Summary This thesis deals with two new trends of international commercial arbitration that aim at accelerating its process, namely (1) expedited arbitration and (2) institute of emergency arbitrator, and their capacity to contribute to the speed up of its process. A comparison of current provisions of these trends in arbitration rules of selected permanent international arbitration institutions was used for their analyses. The thesis is comprised of three chapters. In the first chapter, I present significant current trends that should contribute to the speed and higher effectiveness of the international commercial arbitration and identify potential pitfalls of these new trends. Consolidation of arbitration proceedings, electronic communication between the subjects of the proceedings, ethical rules, expedited arbitration and emergency arbitrator are introduced in this chapter. The second chapter further pursues the concept of expedited arbitration. It consists of two parts. The first section provides an analysis of the provisions of expedited arbitration within the arbitration rules of selected permanent international arbitration institutions that are China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission, Vienna International Arbitral Centre of the..