This book fills a gap in legal academic study and practice in International Commercial Arbitration by offering an in-depth analysis on legal discourse and interpretation. Written by a specialist in international business law, arbitration and legal theory, it examines the discursive framework of arbi...

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1. Verfasser:	Jemielniak, Joanna (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Farnham Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2014
Schriftenreihe:	Law, language and communication
Schlagworte:	International commercial arbitration Internationale Handelsschiedsgerichtsbarkeit
Zusammenfassung:	This book fills a gap in legal academic study and practice in International Commercial Arbitration by offering an in-depth analysis on legal discourse and interpretation. Written by a specialist in international business law, arbitration and legal theory, it examines the discursive framework of arbitral proceedings, through an exploration of the unique status of arbitration as a legal and semiotic phenomenon. The book also includes comparative examinations of existing legal framework and case law which reflect the international nature of the subject
Beschreibung:	Cover; Contents; List of Acronyms; List of Legal Journal Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Structure of the Book; Part I: Arbitration as a Legal and Semiotic Phenomenon; 1 International Commercial Arbitration: The Reasons for Success; Historical Background; Definitions of Arbitration; Arbitration and ADR Methods; Arbitration and Litigation; Current Significance of Arbitration; 2 ICA in the Context of Theories of Legal Discourse; Capturing the Phenomenon: The Search for Tools; Legal Positivism; Legal Hermeneutics; Legal Deconstructivism; Sociolinguistics 3 ICA and the Semiotic Web of LawSemiotics and the Discursive Concept of Culture; The Semiotic Web of the Law; The Semiotic Web of Legal Interpretation in ICA; The Application of Foreign Substantive Law: The Issue of Double Intermediacy; ICA and Discourse Analysis; Part II: Structural Determinants of Legal Discourse in Arbitration; 4 Ad Hoc and Institutional Arbitration; Basic Notions; Ad Hoc Arbitration; Institutional Arbitration; The Role of Procedural Soft Law; Arbitration -- Scale and Trends of Development; 5 Processualization of Arbitration; Arbitration Colonized?; Status of an Arbitrator Limits of Judicial Control -- Expanded Review ProblemProcessualization of Arbitration and Competition in the Market of Arbitral Services; 6 Arbitration in a Multicultural Environment: Structural and Procedural Aspects; General Issues; Civil Law and Common Law Procedural Approaches -- Addressing the Differences; Shari'a and the Resolution of Commercial Disputes; Part III: Legal Interpretation in the Arbitral Discourse: Functional Aspects; 7 Comparative Method; Comparative Analysis -- its Concept and Role in Adjudication; Comparative Analysis and the Monolocal Approach Comparative Analysis and the Pluralistic ApproachComparative Analysis and the Representation of ICA as an Autonomous Legal System; 8 Lex Mercatoria in Arbitration; Lex Mercatoria: The Concept and its Historical Development; Sources of Lex Mercatoria; The Role of Arbitration; Lex Mercatoria in Arbitration -- a Historical Perspective; The Dilemma of Legal Predictability; 9 Amiable Composition; Recourse to Extralegal Standards in Arbitration: Amiable Composition and Elements of Mediation; Amiable Composition and Decision-Making Ex Aequo et Bono; Amiable Composition and Lex Mercatoria Amiable Composition and Legal Certainty10 Public Order Considerations; Public Order -- Concept and Contexts; Ordre Public Exception and Mandatory Rules of Law; Arbitration and Transnational Public Policy; 11 ICA: A Paradigmatic Change in Legal Interpretation?; Bibliography; Index
Beschreibung:	1 online resource (279 pages)