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TABLE OF CONTENTS FOR INTERNATIONAL INSOLVENCY
AND ARBITRATION MATERIALS
**NOTE**
Items appearing in Blue are
hyperlinked to either the text
of a listed document or the
website of a listed
organization
I. Bankruptcy
A. Multilateral Bankruptcy Treaties
B. Bilateral Bankruptcy Treaties
C. Domestic Bankruptcy Laws of Various Nations
D. Model Bankruptcy Laws
E. Organizations Dealing with Cross-Border Insolvency
F. Reference Materials Concerning Insolvency Practice
II. Arbitration
A. Multilateral International Arbitration Treaties and Conventions
B. Bilateral Investment Treaties
C. Domestic Arbitration Laws of Various Nations
D. Model Arbitration Laws
E. Organizations Dealing with International Arbitration
F. Reference Materials Concerning Insolvency Practice
III. Methods of Dealing with Multi-National Insolvency Cases
A. Materials Concerning Comity
B. Materials Concerning General International Law Principles Derived from Custom
and Usage
C. Materials Concerning other Principles and Methods for Dealing with Multinational
Interest ("COMI")]
IV. Commentary Concerning Insolvency and Arbitration
A. Books, Articles, Journals and Law Reviews Concerning Insolvency and Arbitration
B. Certain Reported Decisions
C. Other Materials Concerning Insolvency and Arbitration
Insolvency Cases [including Concepts of Center of Main
I. Bankruptcy
A. Multilateral Bankruptcy Treaties
1. (1923) Convention relating to Legal Assistance
2. (1925) Convention concerning Territorial Jurisdiction, Bankruptcy and the
Authority and Execution of Judgments, Arbitral Awards, and Notarial Acts,
with Additional Protocol
3. (1925) Convention concerning Reciprocal Judicial Protection and Legal
Assistance in regard to Civil and Commercial Law and Non-Litigious Affairs,
with Additional Protocol
4. (1928) Convention on Private International Law (The Bustamante Code)
5. (1929) Convention regarding Certain Questions of Civil Procedure and
Private Law, with Protocol of Signature
6. (1930) of Judgments in Civil and
Commercial Matters
Convention on the Enforcement
7. (1933) Nordic Bankruptcy Convention (Nordisk Konkurskonvention)
a. (1977) Amendment to Nordic Bankruptcy Convention
8. (1934) Convention concerning the Reciprocal Execution of Enforceable
Decisions and Instruments and Reciprocity in Bankruptcy Proceedings, and
Additional Protocol
9. (1940) International Treaty on Commercial Law (1889), amended by the
Treaty of Montevideo of 1940
a. governed the relations among Argentina, Bolivia, Columbia, Peru,
Paraguay and Uruguay, respectively
10. (1969) Convention concerning Bankruptcy, Composition and Extension of
Payment
11. (1979) Convention concerning Judicial Jurisdiction, Recognition and
Execution of Decisions in Maters of Bankruptcy
12. (1979) Treaty concerning Bankruptcy and Composition Law
13. (2002) Insolvency Proceedings of the European Union (EC) No. 1346/2000
of May 29, 2000, OJ L 160, June 30, 2000
a. status
14. (Not in Force ­ 1990) European Convention on Certain International Aspects
of Bankruptcy
B. Bilateral Bankruptcy Treaties
C. Domestic Bankruptcy Laws of Various Nations
1. See International Insolvency Institute CD (June 2005)
D. Model Bankruptcy Laws
1. (1997) UNCITRAL Model Law on Cross Border Insolvency
2. (2000) American Law Institute - Guidelines for Court-to-Court
Communications in Cross-Border Cases
(2000) Asia3. n Development Bank - Insolvency Law Reforms in the Asian and
Model Law on
solvency Law
E. der Insolvency
Pacific Region: Law and Policy Reform at the Asian Development
(Volume I)
4. (2001) World Bank - Principles and Guidelines for Effective Insolvency and
Creditor Rights Systems
5. (2004) European Bank for Reconstruction and Development ­
Secured Transactions
6. (2004) UNCITRAL ­ Legislative Guide on In
Organizations Dealing with Cross-Bor
Restructuring, Insolvency &
ence Materials Concerning Insolvency Practice
1. International Insolvency Institute
2. INSOL International- International Association of
Bankruptcy Professionals
F. Refer
II.
A. ltila
Arbitration
Mu teral International Arbitration Treaties and Conventions
1. (1910) Hague Convention for the Pacific Settlement of International
Disputes
2. (1907) Hague Convention for the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes
3. (1923) Geneva Protocol On Arbitration Clauses
(1899
4. 29) On The Execution Of Foreign Arbitral Awards
5. (1949) Revised General Act for the Pacific Settlement of International
6. (1959) New York Convention: United Nations Convention on the
Awards
7. ercial Arbitration
8. ent of Investment Disputes
ls of Other States
of
10.
11. can Convention On International Commercial Arbitration
13. Vien w of Treaties
t of Judgments in
(1992) Arab Convention On Commercial Arbitration
(19 Geneva Convention
a. status/ signatories
Disputes
a. status/signatories
Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral
a. status / signatories
(1964) European Convention on International Comm
a. status/signatories
(1966) Washington Convention on the Settlem
Between States and Nationa
a. Status / signatories
9. (1968) Convention concerning Judicial Competence and the Execution
Decisions in Civil and Commercial Matters (Brussels)
(1971) The Hague Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of
Foreign Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters
a. (1979) Supplementary Protocol to the Convention on the Recognition
and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments
(1976) Inter-Ameri
a. signatories
12. (1976) UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules
(1980) na Convention on the La
a. Status / signatories
14. (1982) The Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act
15. (1988) Convention on Jurisdiction and the Enforcemen
Civil and Commercial Matters - Lugano
16.
17. (1996) Vienna Convention on Succession of States in Respect of Treaties
19. (1998) International Chamber of Commerce Arbitration Rules
20.
Arbitration
21. (Not in Force ­ 1986) Vienna Convention on the law of Treatises between
l Organizations or between International Organizations
B.
a. status / signatories
18. (1997) The Jordanian-American Investment Treaty
(Not in Force ­ 1966) European Convention Providing A Uniform Law On
States and Internationa
a. status / signatories
Bilateral Investment Treaties
1. Treaties and Other International Agreements of the United States in Force
only)
2. Chronological List of Bilateral Investment Treaties (World Bank website)
s (World Bank website)
s of Various Nations
3. List of Parties to Bilateral Investment Treatie
C. Domestic Arbitration Law
1. See Permanent Court of Arbitration website
D. Model Arbitration Laws
1. (1985) UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration
E. Organizations Dealing with International Arbitration
1. Permanent Court of Arbitration
2. WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center
3. American Arbitration Association (AAA)
4. Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration
5. Centro de Arbitraje y Mediación Paraguay
6. Comisión de Mediación y Arbitraje Comercial Cámara de Comercio de la Ciudad
de México (CANACO)
7. Comité Venezolano de Arbitraje
8. International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA)
9. International Court of Arbitration
10. Regional Centre for Arbitration Kuala Lumpur (RCAKL)
11. Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC)
F. Reference Materials Concerning Arbitration Practice
1. AAA Arbitral Rules
2. Bowman's 12-States of an ICC Arbitration handout
3. Code of Ethics for Arbitrators in Commercial Disputes (2004 Revision)
4. IBA Guidelines on Conflicts of Interest in International Arbitration
5. International Chamber of Commerce Arbitral Rules
6. ICDR Arbitral Rules
7. ICSID Convention
8. ICSID Rules
9. LCIA Arbitral Rules
10. SCC Arbitral Rules
11. UNCITRAL Arbitral Rules
12. UNCITRAL Notes on Organizing Arbitral Proceedings
III. nal Insolvency Cases
A. ncerning Comity
Methods of Dealing with Multi-Natio
Materials Co
B. Materials Concerning General International Law Principles Derived from Custom
1. Articles
2. Certain Reported Decisions
and Usage
1. Articles
2. Certain Reported Decisions
Materials Concerning otheC. r Principles and Methods for Dealing with Multinational
Insolvency Cases [including Concepts of Center of
Main Interest ("COMI")]
IV.
A. oks,
Commentary Concerning Insolvency and Arbitration
Bo Articles, Journals and Law Reviews on Insolvency and Arbitration
1. Alan Redfern & Martin Hunter, Law and Practice of International
Commercial Arbitration (4th
edition, Thomson/Sweet & Maxwell 2004)
2. Albert Jan van den Berg, The New York Arbitration Convention of 1958
(Kluwer 1981)
Carolyn C. Marka3. son, Arbitration Agreements in Bankruptcy Proceedings:
The Clash Between Policies and the Proper Forum for Resolution, 57 TEMP.
L.Q. 855 (1984)
4. Fred Neufeld, Enforcement of Contractual Arbitration Agreements Under the
Bankruptcy Code, 65 AM. BANKR. L.J. 525 (1991)
5. Fouchard Gaillard Goldman on International Commercial Arbitration
(Emmanuel Gaillard & John Savage eds., Kluwer 1999)
6. Gary B. Born, International Commercial Arbitration Commentary and
Materials (2d edition Kluwer 2001)
7. Jay Westbrook, The Coming Encounter: International Arbitration and
Bankruptcy, 67 MINN. LAW REV. 595 (1983)
John Pottow, Procedural Incrementalism: A Model for International8.
Bankruptcy, in the University of Michigan Law School, The John M. Olin
Center of Law & Economics Working Paper Series, PAPER 36 (2005)
9. D. James Mackall, Balancing Section 3 of the United States Arbitration Act
and Section 1471 of the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978: A Bankruptcy
Judge's Exercise of "Sound Discretion", 53 U. CIN. L. REV 231 (1984)
10. Dr. Laurent Lévy, Insolvency in Arbitration (Swiss Law), INŤL. A.L.R., Issu
1 (2005)
e
11. Mette H. Kurth, An Unstoppable Mandate and an Immovable Policy: The
Arbitration Act and the Bankruptcy Code Collide, 43 UCLA L. REV. 999
(1996)
12. an Paullson, International
Arbitration (3d edition, Oceana 2000)
W. Laurence Craig, Willaim W. Park and J
Chamber of Commerce
13. William E. Deitrick, The Conflicting Policies Between Arbitration and
Bankruptcy, 40 BUS. LAW 33 (Nov. 1984)
B. Certain Reported Decisions
C. Other Materials Concerning Insolvency and Arbitration
RAL: Status of Convention1. UNCIT s and Model Laws
le of
ne 1974, as amended by the
b. ] Convention on the Limitation Period in the
c. tion on the Carriage of Goods by Sea, 1978
d. the International Sale of
e. of Exchange and
f. n the Liability of Operators of Transport
g. ndependent Guarantees and Stand-by
fers (1992)
a. Convention on the Limitation Period in the International Sa
Goods, concluded at New York on 14 Ju
Protocol of 11 April 1980
[Unamended
International Sale of Goods (NY 1994)
United Nations Conven
(Hamburg)
United Nations Convention on Contracts for
Goods (Vienna, 1980)
United Nations Convention on International Bills
International Promissory Notes (NY 1988)
United Nations Convention o
terminals in International Trade (Vienna, 1991)
United Nations Convention on I
Letters of Credit (NY 1995)
h. United Nations Convention on the Assignment of Receivables in
International Trade (NY 2001)
i. UNCITRAL Model Law on International Credit Trans
j. UNCITRAL Model Law on Procurement of Goods, Construction and
Services (1994)
k. UNCITRAL Model on Electronic Commerce (1996)
l. UNCITRAL Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvency (1997)
m. UNCITRAL Model Law on Electronic Signatures (2001)