International Commercial Arbitration - BML0099

Assessment 1: Other

Activities providing opportunities for formative assessment will generally be integrated into the teaching and learning process and apply to all components of summative assessment.  The nature of the formative assessment tasks used will be at the discretion of the tutor, to include for example, workshop exercises, quizzes, group discussions. 

Other

Assessment 2: Practical Skills Assessment

Practical Skills Assessment

Assessment 1: Written Assignment

Written Assignment

<p>Commercial transactions are complex in their nature and stretch beyond the national borders. Since the emergence of disputes from these transactions is normal, the stakeholders rely on arbitration to decide these disputes conclusively and this is due to so many very obvious reasons including, skilled and neutral arbitrator, flexible and speedy procedure, privacy and confidentiality, and enforcement of arbitrator’s decision worldwide due to the New York Convention. London is one the most popular seats of arbitration which hosts a large number of arbitrations, and its courts entertain a good deal of foreign awards for enforcement. In this module, you will be introduced to all the major legal issues pertaining to arbitration agreement, arbitrator, arbitral procedure and arbitral award which the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) and the English courts face. To that end, you will explore the relevant provisions of English Arbitration Act 1996 along with UNCITRAL Model Law and the New York Convention which have made a great impact on the Arbitration Act 1996. The knowledge you will acquire in this context will be supplemented with arbitration practices in other prominent seats of arbitration, as well as examples from developing countries. In addition to critically assessing current issues in the field of international commercial arbitration, you will study the procedural mechanism known as investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) in the context of international investment arbitration. In this respect, a particular focus will be on the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) which will be the subject of a moot court at the end of the term.</p>

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BML0099 - International Commercial Arbitration

International Commercial Arbitration

Apply learned knowledge within academic and/or professional contexts, make sound judgements in the absence of complete data and communicate their conclusions clearly to a specialist and/or non-specialist audience.

Recognise and debate current problems and new insights in the field

Demonstrate an independent learning ability for continuing professional development and competency in initiative-taking, personal responsibility and decision-making. 

Appraise current research and advanced scholarship in the discipline, critically evaluate approaches and arguments and develop critiques of them and where appropriate, propose new hypothesis

Demonstrate a systematic understanding of core legal theory relating to International Commercial Arbitration