International Litigation and Arbitration : Practice and Planning

Although it is only a little more than three years since the second edition came out, the volume of important developments made a new edition desirable. New features include a comprehensive note on the "not considered as domestic awards" in article 1(1) of the New York Arbitration Convention (ch. 1, sec. 2) and a landmark House of Lords decision of July 20, 2000 that reshapes forum non conveniens doctrine in the U.K. and rejects the "public interest" factors used by U.S. courts (ch. 2, sec. 1). Chapter 8, Damages Resulting from International Flights, has been completely rewritten to present the two-tier compensation system created by the 1995 Kuala Lampur agreement and the new Montreal Convention, which President Clinton has transmitted to the Senate for its advice and consent to ratification. The rewritten chapter focuses on the issues that will be important under the new compensation regime.

This completely updated and revised edition continues the extensive commentary, notes, and questions that have made the first two editions so popular resulting in adopt