Coordination or Chaos in International Arbitration

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Inaugural lecture of the LLM in Transnational Arbitration & Dispute Settlement (Sciences Po Law School), with

 

Emmanuel Gaillard, Emeritus Professor at Sciences Po & Chairman of the LLM’s Scientific Advisory Board.

 

It is no longer uncommon for international arbitration proceedings to unfold concurrently with other parallel actions, either with ancillary litigation before national courts or with contemporaneous arbitral procedures before other international tribunals.

This lecture will explore the notions of comity, lis pendens, anti-suit injunctions and res judicata as possible instruments of coordination among national courts and international arbitral tribunals.

More generally, it will address the complex web of relationships between (i) national courts and arbitral tribunals, (ii) two or more arbitral tribunals, and (iii) national courts in different jurisdictions.