Yearbook Commercial Arbitration, Volume XLVI (2021)

Book excerpt: The Yearbook Commercial Arbitration continues its longstanding commitment to serving as a primary resource for the international arbitration community, with reports on arbitral awards and court decisions applying the leading arbitration conventions and decisions of general interest to the practice of international arbitration as well as announcements of arbitration legislation and rules. Volume XLVI (2021) includes: * excerpts of arbitral awards made under the auspices of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and the Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (CRCICA), as well as awards rendered in accordance with the rules of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (SCC); * notes on new and amended arbitration rules, including references to their online publication; * notes on recent developments in arbitration law and practice in Belize, Brazil, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Hong Kong SAR, India, Iran, Iraq, Malawi, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan ; * excerpts of 85 court decisions applying the 1958 New York Convention from 28 countries - including, for the first time, cases from Costa Rica, Cuba, and Iran - all indexed by subject matter and linked to the commentaries on the New York Convention published in the Yearbook, authored by former General Editor and leading expert Prof. Dr. Albert Jan van den Berg; * excerpts from three decisions applying the 1965 Washington (ICSID) Convention and three decisions applying the 1975 Panama (Inter-American) Convention, as well as a selection of nine court decisions of general interest; * an extensive Bibliography of recent books and journals on arbitration. The Yearbook is edited by the International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA), the world's leading organization representing practitioners and academics in the field, under the general editorship of Prof. Dr. Stephan W. Schill and with the assistance of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, The Hague. It is an essential tool for lawyers, business people and scholars involved in the practice and study of international arbitration.