A unique collaboration between academic scholars, legal practitioners, and arbitrators, this handbook focuses on the intersection of arbitration - as an alternative to litigation - and the court systems to which arbitration is ultimately beholden. The first three parts analyze issues relating to the interpretation of the scope of arbitration agreements, arbitrator bias and conflicts of interest, arbitrator misconduct during the proceedings, enforceability of arbitral awards, and the grounds for vacating awards. The next section features fifteen country-specific reviews, which demonstrate that, despite the commonality of principles at the international level, there is a significant of amount of differences in the application of those principles at the national level. This work should be read by anyone interested in the general rules and principles of the enforceability of foreign arbitral awards and the grounds for courts to vacate or annul such awards.

Part I. Vacating Commercial Arbitration Awards: 1. Introduction: Intersection of courts and arbitration Marta Infantino, Nathalie Potin and Larry A. Dimatteo; 2. Independence and impartiality of arbitrators Carlos Matheus López; 3. Exploring the parameters of conflicts of interest Nathalie Potin and Tunde Ogunseitan; 4. Procedural irregularities and misconduct during proceedings Alexander Belohlavek; Part II. Enforcing Commercial Arbitration Awards: 5. Inter-arbitration association conflict Richard Happ; 6. Requirements for enforceability Daìrio Manuel Lentz De Moura Vicente; Part III. Scope and Interpretation of Arbitration Clauses: 7. Judicial interpretation of standard clauses Rocio Digon and Tony Cole; 8. Industry-specific clauses and their interpretation Alexandra-Luiza Ionescu (Mare¿); 9. Drafting, interpretation, and enforcement of arbitration clauses: a practitioner's perspective Philippe Cavalieros; Part IV. Judicial Control over Arbitral Awards: Country Reports: 10. Judicial control of arbitral awards in Argentina Maria Beatriz Burghetto; 11. Judicial control of arbitral awards in Australia Luke Nottage, Nobumichi Teramura and Jim Morrison; 12. Judicial control of arbitral awards in Bulgaria Oleg Temnikov; 13. Judicial control of arbitral awards in China Lei Chen and Wang Hao; 14. Judicial control of arbitral awards in France Denis Bensaude; 15. Judicial control of arbitral awards in Germany Joseph Schwartz; 16. Judicial control of arbitral awards in Italy Marta Infantino; 17 Judicial control of arbitral awards in Nigeria Tunde Ogunseitan and Nathalie Potin; 18. Judicial control of arbitral awards in Poland Jerzy Pisuli¿ski and Piotr Tereszkiewicz; 19. Judicial control of arbitral awards in the Russian Federation Dmitry Dozhdzev; 20. Judicial control of arbitral awards in Spain Teresa Rodriguez De Las Heras Ballell; 21. Judicial control of arbitral awards in Switzerland Phillip Landolt; 22. Judicial control of arbitral awards in Ukraine Galyna Mykhailiuk; 23. Judicial control of arbitral awards in United Kingdom Andrew Tetley; 24. Judicial control of arbitral awards in the United States Larry A. Dimatteo; Part V. Summary and Findings: 25. Divergence, themes, and trends in national arbitration laws Nathalie Potin, Marta Infantino and Larry A. Dimatteo; 26. Shared control system over arbitral proceedings Friedrich Rosenfeld.