Introduction

It is the hypothesis of this article that learned commentators in the international arbitration community should urge reversal of the presumption that commercial arbitration proceedings and the materials created by parties to the arbitrations and submitted to arbitral tribunals, as well as the awards of the arbitrators should be conducted in secret except as required to enforce agreements to arbitrate or awards rendered by arbitral tribunals.[1] Starting with the currently pending proposed modifications to the UNCITRAL rules that have been published to the arbitration world for ...