Strange Bedfellows: Remarks on the Compatibility of Commercial Arbitration Principles with Maritime Arbitration
Article from: TDM 1 (2021), in Maritime Law
Introduction
(Added 06/09/2021) This Article examines one particular element of maritime arbitration and its variation from mainstream international commercial arbitration, namely the standards of independence and impartiality that are applied to arbitrators. Building upon the analysis of the English courts in the three decisions in the dispute between the Halliburton Company and Chubb Bermuda Insurance Ltd., it incorporates information from interviews undertaken with maritime arbitration practitioners in several European jurisdictions. Part one introduces the historical foundations of maritime law ...