International Arbitration: Law and Practice in Switzerland

Gabrielle Kaufmann-Kohler is a professor at the University of Geneva, where she teaches international arbitration. She is also the Director of the Geneva LL.M. in International Dispute Settlement (MIDS) and a Co-Director of the Center for International Dispute Settlement (CIDS), both joint projects of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies and the University of Geneva. Professor Kaufmann-Kohler is a founding partner of Lévy Kaufmann-Kohler, where she practices international commercial and investment arbitration. She regularly ranks among the world's top ten international arbitrators. She has authored, co-authored, edited, and contributed to numerous works on international arbitration.Antonio Rigozzi teaches international arbitration and sports law at the University of Neuchâtel and is a partner at Lévy Kaufmann-Kohler, where he heads the sports arbitration practice. He regularly acts as counsel before the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) and the Swiss Supreme Court, and frequently sits as an arbitrator in commercial arbitrations. Professor Rigozzi has published widely on international arbitration and sports law, being in particular the author of a well-known treatise on international sports arbitration (L'arbitrage international en matière de sport, Basel, 2005) and co-author of the first article-by-article commentary of the CAS Code (Sports Arbitration under the CAS Rules, in Arroyo, M. (Ed.), Arbitration in Switzerland A Practitioners Guide, Alphen aan den Rijn, 2013).

Practitioners in Switzerland and abroad will find the book to be a valuable addition to existing literature on international commercial arbitration in Switzerland owing to the authors clinical focus on the practice, procedure and case-law of the Swiss Federal Tribunal. The book reaffirms Switzerlands place as one of the most arbitration friendly jurisdictions and is likely to encourage practitioners to recommend Switzerland as a probable seat for arbitration to their clients. In any event, the book is an excellent resource for the study of international arbitration for novices and experienced hands alike.

• Introduction ; 1. The Concept and Sources of Arbitration ; 2. The Law Governing Arbitration ; 3. The Arbitration Agreement ; 4. The Arbitral Tribunal ; 5. The Arbitral Tribunal's Jurisdiction ; 6. The Proceedings Before the Arbitral Tribunal ; 7. The Law Applicable to the Merits of the Award ; 8. The Challenge, Recognition, and Enforcement of Arbitral Awards ; Bibliography