Selected Arbitral Awards

SELECTED ARBITRAL AWARDS, consisting of 60 awards rendered by arbitral
tribunals under the Vienna Rules, is meant to provide a unique and
valuable insight into various important and challenging procedural and
substantive issues which have arisen over the years in international arbitration
under the auspices of the VIAC. The selection made is a response
to the increasing call of parties, counsel and arbitrators alike for measures
to ensure greater transparency of commercial arbitration proceedings by
way of enhanced access to arbitral awards as well as to their content and
reasoning. It is in this context that this publication is meant as a modest
but concrete step towards fostering greater familiarity, predictability and
confidence in relation to the international arbitral process, including the
award as its end result.
As the VIAC is celebrating its 40th anniversary in 2015, the VIAC Secretariat
considered this to be an especially propitious time to draw back
the curtains and thereby provide greater insight into the work of the institution
as well as that of arbitral tribunals appointed under its auspices
in recent years. This first volume of abstracts is intended as just one
first step in this endeavour, and the VIAC intends to complement it with
further volumes in regular intervals. It greatly benefits from annotations
and comments provided by renowned experts in the arbitration community,
thereby ensuring that this publication in fact is a true reference work,
with both historical and practical value for users and practitioners alike.