The Power and Effectiveness of Pre-arbitral Provisional Relief: The SCC Emergency Arbitrator in Investor-State Disputes - Chapter 6 - Between East and West: Essays in Honour of Ulf Franke

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The Power and Effectiveness of Pre-Arbitral Provisional Relief: The SCC Emergency Arbitrator in Investor-State Disputes

Charles N. Brower
Ariel Meyerstein
Stephan W. Schill

I. INTRODUCTION
Before the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) adopted its pre-arbitral referee procedure in 1990,1 no institutional arbitration rules provided for provisional relief from an arbitrator or arbitral tribunal before the constitution of that tribunal. Instead, provisional relief was available only from domestic courts,2 involving all the complications and inefficiencies which recourse to such courts may entail.3 For example, domestic courts have not always been ready to issue the provisional relief that is necessary to aid arbitrators in rendering their awards on the merits and in preventing the parties from engaging in acts that potentially undermine the arbitral process and its outcome.4 Such problems in the relations between arbitral tribunals and domestic courts are particularly pressing if the respondent is a State or State entity and the courts competent to issue provisional relief are the respondent’s national courts.
 

Full TABLE OF CONTENTS from "Between East and West: Essays in Honour of Ulf Franke"

FOREWORD  

When -- If Ever -- Should Failure to Challenge an
Award before the Courts of the Seat Amount to a
Waiver of New York Convention Defences?
    Frédéric Bachand   

The Role of the Institution in Taming Electronic Disclosure 
    C. Mark Baker and Kinan H. Romman   

Teaching International Arbitration in Law Faculties 
    Eric E. Bergsten   

Some Reflections on Dispute Settlement in Air,
Space, and Telecommunication Law 
    Karl-Heinz Böckstiegel   

Without Delay: Arbitrating in Six Months --
the German Approach for Expedited Proceedings 
    Jens Bredow   

The Power and Effectiveness of Pre-arbitral Provisional Relief:  
The SCC Emergency Arbitrator in Investor-State Disputes 
    Charles N. Brower, Ariel Meyerstein and Stephan W. Schill    
 
Do Arbitration Rules Give the Tribunals Too
Much Freedom to Conduct International Arbitration
As They Think Fit? 
    Peter Scott Caldwell   

Cross-Examination and International Arbitration 
    Bernardo M.  Cremades and David J. A. Cairns   

ICSID, UNCITRAL and SCC As Investment Fora
    Hans Danelius   

Towards a Unified Approach to the Law
Applicable to the Arbitration Agreement in
United States Courts 
    Donald Francis Donovan and David W. Rivkin   

Institutional Commercial Arbitration from the Inside
    Diana C. Droulers   

Arbitration in Arab Countries 
    Abdel Hamid El Ahdab   

Ulf Franke -- Thirty-five Years and Afterwards
    Johan Gernandt   

Voluntary Solutions to Procedural Problems
    Lars Göthlin and Mattias Bexelius   

Pre-Dispute Waivers of Investment Treaty Arbitration:
A Practical Approach
    Jeffrey Hertzfeld and Barton Legum   

Are Parties Entitled to Agree on the Application of
the UNCITRAL Model Law in a Contract Providing
for Arbitration in Sweden? 
    Lars Heuman   

Taking Evidence Abroad in International Arbitration
in the 21st Century 
    Martin Hunter and Andrey Panov   

Determining the Parties' True Choice of the Seat
of Arbitration and Lex Arbitri
    Michael Hwang and Darius Chan   

Is There a Code of Conduct for Party-appointed
Experts in International Arbitration?
    Mark Kantor   

Les Anciens et les Modernes in International Arbitration:
Looking Back and Looking Forward 
    Pierre A. Karrer   

Enforcement of SCC Arbitral Awards in CIS Countries:
Reflections on Arbitration History 
    Vladimir Khvalei   

Remarks on the Development of International
Commercial Arbitration in Modern Russia
    Alexander S. Komarov   

Corruption in International Investment Arbitration:
Jurisdiction and the Unclean Hands Doctrine 
    Richard Kreindler   

Discretion Pursuant to Article V of the New York Convention 
    Gustaf Möller   

Ulf Franke, Stockholm Arbitration, and the Bridge to China 
    Michael J. Moser   

Negative Inferences: An Arbitral Tribunal's Powers to
Draw Adverse Conclusions from a Party's Failure to
Comply with the Tribunal's Orders 
    Bo G.H. Nilsson   

Reflection on What Is Special in an Arbitrator's Life 
    Piotr Nowaczyk   

Participation in the ICSID Convention 
    Antonio R. Parra   

Security for Costs in Investment Arbitration 
    Jakob Ragnwaldh and Nils Eliasson   

Challenging Arbitrators' Fees Determined by
Arbitration Institutions
    Jan Ramberg and Serge Lazareff  

Incorporation and Passivity: Entering into Arbitration
Agreements under Swedish Law 
    Anders Reldén and Mattias Nilsson   

Contractual Relations in Institutional Arbitration
    Patrik Schöldström   

The New SCC Emergency Arbitrator Rules 
    Patricia Shaughnessy   

International Arbitration in Ukraine:
Yesterday, Today . . . Forever 
    Tatyana Slipachuk   

The Parties' Contract with the Arbitration Institution 
    Christer Söderlund   

Enforcement of SCC Arbitration Awards in China 
    Jingzhou Tao   

Arbitration Guidelines: Straitjacket or Compass?
    Hans van Houtte   

Users, Courts, Arbitral Institutions -- And the Need for
Comparative Statistics 
    V.V. Veeder and Amy Sander   

Improvement of the Civil Code of the Russian
Federation and Its Impact on Arbitration Practice
    Nina Vilkova   

Bringing Arbitration Closer to Company Management
and Boards: Can Arbitral Institutions Further
This Aspiration? 
    Carita Wallgren-Lindholm   

What Can You Expect? The Role of Legitimate
Expectations in Investment Protection Disputes 
    Fred Wennerholm   

The Impact of Document Production on the Efficiency
of Arbitration 
    Claes Zettermarck and Rikard Wikström   

Procedural Aspects of the Activities of Institutional
Arbitration Bodies
    Ivan S. Zykin    

Charles N. Brower is a Judge, Iran-United States Claims Tribunal; Judge Ad Hoc, Inter-American Court of Human Rights; Arbitrator Member, 20 Essex Street Chambers, London; former Acting Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of State, Deputy Special Counselor to the U.S. President.

Ariel Meyerstein is currently Legal Adviser to the Hon. Charles N. Brower of the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal. He is also a Ph.D. candidate in the Jurisprudence & Social Policy Program at Berkeley Law, where his dissertation focuses on sustainable finance.

Stephan W. Schill is a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg. From 2008 to 2009, he was the International Arbitration Law Clerk to the Honorable Charles N. Brower of 20 Essex Street Chambers, London.