Restating the U.S. Law of International Commercial Arbitration

By George A. BermannJack J. Coe, Jr., Christopher R. Drahozal, and Catherine A. Rogers113 Penn St. L. Rev. 1333.

In December 2007, the American Law Institute (”ALI”) approved the development of a new Restatement, Third, of the U.S. Law of International Commercial Arbitration (the “Restatement”). On February 23, 2009, the Restaters and authors of this Essay presented a Preliminary Draft of a chapter of the Restatement (the “Draft”) at an invitational meeting in New York. The Draft addresses Recognition and Enforcement of Arbitral Awards. This brief Essay provides some  reflections of the Reporters from the process of producing and presenting the Draft . . . [ keep reading]