On Arbitration V. V. Veeder, Selected Writings and Contributions to the Development of Law

Samuel Wordsworth, Essex Court Chambers,Marie Veeder

Sam Wordsworth QC is a barrister and avocat (Paris Bar) practising at Essex Court Chambers, specialising in public international law disputes and international arbitration. He is a Visiting Professor teaching the LLM investment arbitration course at Kings College, London (having taught on that course with Johnny Veeder since the early 2000s).

Marie Veeder, a former investment banker, worked as an all-round assistant to Johnny Veeder for over twenty years. This included managing aspects of his practise, doing research, and often putting down on paper his extensive contributions to the world of international arbitration. Marie was his wife/partner for thirty-five years.

Introduction
Part I: Learning from the Past
1. The Historical Keystone to International Arbitration, The Party-Appointed Arbitrator-From Miami to Geneva
2. Investor-State Disputes and The Development of International Law, Arbitral Lessons from the Private Correspondence of Queen Victoria and Lenin
3. Inter-State Arbitration
4. 1922: The Birth of the ICC Arbitration Clause and the Anglo-Soviet Urquhart Concession's Demise
5. The 1921-1923 North Sakhalin Concession Agreement: The 1925 Court Decisions Between the US Company Sinclair Exploration and the Soviet Government
6. Lloyd George, Lenin and Cannibals: The Harriman Arbitration
7. The Lena Goldfields Arbitration: The Historical Roots of Three Ideas
8. The Tetiuhe Mining Concession: 1924-1932: a Swiss-Russian Story (Where the Arbitral Dog Did Not Bark),
9. Two Arbitral Butterflies: Bramwell and David
Part II: The International Arbitral Process
10. The 'Y2K Problem' and Arbitration: The Answer to the Myth
11. The Lawyer's Duty to Arbitrate in Good Faith
12. The Natural Limits to the Truncated Tribunal: The German Case of Soviet Eggs and the Dutch Abduction of the Indonesian Arbitrator
13. Issue Estoppel, Reasons for Awards and Transnational Arbitration
14. The Need for Cross-border Enforcement of Interim Measures Ordered by a State Court in Support of the International Arbitral Process
15. The Transparency of International Arbitration: Process and Substance
16. Free Spirits - The Search for 'International' Arbitration
17. The Role of Users
18. From Florence to London via Moscow and New Delhi: How and Why Arbitral Ideas Migrate
19. Jurisdiction, Admissibility and Choice of Law in International Arbitration
Part III: Key Questions for all Users of International Arbitration
20. Whose Arbitration is it Anyway: The Parties or the Arbitration Tribunal - An Interesting Question?
21. Is There Any Need for a Code of Ethics for International Commercial Arbitrators?
22. Still More on Arbitral Deliberations
23. Why Bother? And Why It Matters
24. The Importance of a Party Treating as Independent its Independent Arbitrator
25. Is There a Need to Revise the New York Convention?
26. Who Are the Arbitrators?
27. Arbitrators And Arbitral Institutions: Legal Risks For Product Liability?
28. What Matters - about Arbitration
29. Lessons for the Future from the Past: Individual Hedgehogs and Institutional Foxes