Welcome to Kluwer Arbitration
Kluwer Arbitration is the world's leading online resource for international arbitration research. It contains a wealth of commentary from expert authors and an extensive collection of primary source materials. Plus, as a subscriber you gain access to exclusive materials, including one of the world's largest collection of ICC awards.
No other resource comes close to providing the breadth and depth of KluwerArbitration.com.
Searching and browsing is quick and simple, as the database has been organized into the following specific arbitration categories: Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs), Conventions, Countries, Legislation, NY Convention Decisions, Organizations, and Rules. Each main category is further grouped into the following regions: Asia, Europe, Africa, North America, South America, and Oceania. Once a region is selected, all countries containing documents in the selected category will display.
KluwerArbitration includes:
1. Primary materials:
o Bilateral Investment Treaties: almost 1,700 bilateral investment treaties;
o Case Law: over 5,000 court decisions and 1,750 awards;
o Conventions: 25 multilateral treaties;
o Legislation: almost 500 laws for key jurisdictions;
o Model Clauses: close to 100 model clauses from major arbitral institutions; and
o Rules: over 400 rules from major arbitral institutions.
2. Analytical content:
o 88 books;
o 5 journals; and
o 2 loose-leafs.
- Blog posts from the Kluwer Arbitration Blog.
- ITA Report including materials provided by the board of reporters of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration (ITA).
- Practice Tools:
- 3 Smart Charts edited by Clifford Chance LLP
- IAI Arbitrator Tool developed in conjunction with the International Arbitration Institute
The above types of content are drawn from
1. Content possessed by Kluwer Law International, as published by the company in print and administered by the Developmental Editor.
o Such content gained through publication in arbitration journals (Arbitration International, ASA Bulletin and the Journal of International Arbitration) and loose-leafs (NAFTA Chapter 11 and the ICCA Handbook on International Commercial Arbitration) is included automatically and indiscriminately, including all past and future issues/supplements.
o Such content gained through publication in arbitration books is included only upon selection, save for the materials published in the ICCA Yearbook Commercial Arbitration, which are also included automatically and indiscriminately, including all past and future issues.
2. Content licensed by Kluwer Law International, as published by other publishing companies but provided for inclusion in the database. At present such content encompasses:
o all issues of the Revue de l'arbitrage journal from 1986 onwards;
o all issues of the Asian International Arbitration journal;
o the book Law and Practice of International Commercial Arbitration (4th ed., 2004) by Redfern, Hunter, Blackaby and Partasides; and
o the book Arbitral Awards of the Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration 1997-2000 (2003) by Eldin.
3. Content delivered to Kluwer Law International, as provided by third parties for inclusion in the database only.
o Bilateral Investment Treaties, dates provided bi-annually by Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, documents provided by Penn State;
o Conventions, court decisions and awards, legislation, model clauses, newsletter and rules, all provided monthly by the ITA if not featured in possessed or licensed publications;
o Organizations, provided by Kluwer; and
o All blog entries posted on the Kluwer Arbitration Blog.
o For a full overview of the wide range of print publications included in the online database, please consult the books and journals pages.
4. Content from Practice Tools provided for the Smart Charts by Clifford Chance LLP and the IAI Arbitrator Tool from International Arbitration Institute (IAI).
With Kluwer Arbitration, you can:
- Browse for specific documents.
- Use the search function to quickly find the documents you need.
- Print and/or email selected documents.
