* Doak Bishop is head of King & Spalding’s International Arbitration Practice group. Ms McBrearty is an associate in King & Spalding’s International Arbitration Practice Group.
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28 August 2014Doak Bishop, Sara McBrearty, The New York Convention: A Commentary edited by Reinmar Wolff, Arbitration International, Volume 30, Issue 1, 1 March 2014, Pages 187–188, https://doi.org/10.1093/arbitration/30.1.187
Navbar Search Filter Mobile Enter search term Search Navbar Search Filter Enter search term SearchThe Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards (New York Convention) of 10 June 1958, is the key treaty in the modern international arbitration system. It is one of the most widely ratified commercial treaties in the world, and affords parties a high degree of certainty that an arbitral award can be recognized and enforced all over the world. Without such guarantees, the utility of international arbitration would significantly decrease. Despite its importance, the New York Convention has until now been the subject of relatively few comprehensive commentaries. The New York Convention: A Commentary, edited by Professor Reinmar Wolff of the University of Marburg, fills this void and should be required reading for students and practitioners alike.
The book boasts an impressive collection of authors: contributors such as Christian Borris, Bernd Ehle, Todd Fox, Rudolf Hennecke, Angela Kölbl, Christoph Liebscher, David Quinke, Maxi Scherer, and Stephan Wilske. Readers will find the book easy to navigate, simple to use and comprehensive in scope. The chapters are well organized, taking the reader step-by-step through each article of the Convention in the civil law commentary format. Each article is annotated, and each element analyzed separately. As Professor Wolff notes in the Preface, ‘[t]he reader will quickly find how each requirement under the respective provision has been understood and how it should be interpreted.’