Table
of Contents
Getting
Started with Kluwer Arbitration
Logging in
to Kluwer Arbitration
Logging out
of Kluwer Arbitration
Bilateral
Investment Treaties (BITs)
Kluwer
Arbitration Smart Charts
Working
with your Search Results
Examples of
Using Boolean Operators
Printing
Documents and Analyses
Kluwer Arbitration is the world's leading online resource for
international arbitration research. It contains a wealth of commentary from
expert authors and an extensive collection of primary source materials. Plus,
as a subscriber you gain access to exclusive materials, including one of the
world's largest collection of ICC awards.
No other resource comes close to providing the breadth and depth of
KluwerArbitration.com.
Searching and browsing is quick and simple, as the database has been
organized into the following specific arbitration categories: Bilateral
Investment Treaties (BITs), Conventions, Countries, Legislation, NY Convention
Decisions, Organizations, and Rules. Each main category is further grouped into
the following regions: Asia, Europe, Africa, North America, South America, and
Oceania. Once a region is selected, all countries containing documents in the
selected category will display.
KluwerArbitration
includes:
1.
Primary
materials:
o Bilateral Investment Treaties: almost
1,700 bilateral investment treaties;
o Case Law: over 5,000 court decisions and
1,750 awards;
o Conventions: 25 multilateral treaties;
o Legislation: almost 500 laws for key
jurisdictions;
o Model Clauses: close to 100 model clauses
from major arbitral institutions; and
o Rules: over 400 rules from major arbitral
institutions.
2.
Analytical
content:
o 88 books;
o 5 journals; and
o 2 loose-leafs.
The
above types of content are drawn from
1.
Content
possessed by Kluwer Law International, as published by the company in
print and administered by the Developmental Editor.
o Such content gained through publication in
arbitration journals (Arbitration International, ASA Bulletin and the
Journal of International Arbitration) and loose-leafs (NAFTA Chapter 11 and
the ICCA Handbook on International Commercial Arbitration) is included
automatically and indiscriminately, including all past and future issues/supplements.
o Such content gained through publication in
arbitration books is included only upon selection, save for the materials
published in the ICCA Yearbook Commercial Arbitration, which are also
included automatically and indiscriminately, including all past and future
issues.
2.
Content
licensed by Kluwer Law International, as published by other publishing
companies but provided for inclusion in the database. At present such content
encompasses:
o all issues of the Revue de l'arbitrage
journal from 1986 onwards;
o all issues of the Asian International
Arbitration journal;
o the book Law and Practice of
International Commercial Arbitration (4th ed., 2004) by Redfern,
Hunter, Blackaby and Partasides; and
o the book Arbitral Awards of the Cairo
Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration 1997-2000 (2003)
by Eldin.
3.
Content
delivered to Kluwer Law International, as provided by third parties for
inclusion in the database only.
o Bilateral Investment Treaties, dates
provided bi-annually by Freshfields Bruckhaus
Deringer, documents provided by Penn State;
o Conventions, court decisions and awards,
legislation, model clauses, newsletter and rules, all provided monthly by the
ITA if not featured in possessed or licensed publications;
o Organizations, provided by Kluwer; and
o All blog entries posted on the Kluwer
Arbitration Blog.
o For a full overview of the wide range of
print publications included in the online database, please consult the books
and journals pages.
4.
Content
from Practice Tools provided for the Smart Charts by Clifford Chance LLP and
the IAI Arbitrator Tool from International Arbitration Institute (IAI).
With
Kluwer Arbitration, you can:
The
following minimum recommended system requirements are required to use Kluwer Arbitration.
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Subscribers will
only be able to view documents within the Kluwer Arbitration database after
having logged in to the website. Customers with IP-based access will be logged
in to Kluwer Arbitration
automatically.
1.
Find
and click the Login link near the upper-right side of the page. The Login page
will display.
2.
Enter
your User ID and Password.
3.
Click
the Login button. The home page will display.
You
are now logged in to the Kluwer Arbitration application and can access all
documents contained within the database. Near the upper-right side of the page
you will see your display name next to the Log off link.
Note: Kluwer Arbitration may also be accessed
through IRN/Intelliconnect.
You are now logged out of the Kluwer Arbitration application.
All materials are grouped into 7 browsable categories in the Browse
Categories section on the home page or by rolling over the Browse Categories
button on the top menu. Additionally, Books, Journals, and newly added items to
the database are also browsable.
The BITs Browse
Category, compiled in association with Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Penn
State, is an overview of all ICSID Contracting States that have entered into
bilateral investment treaties (and bilateral free trade agreements) with other
ICSID Contracting States.
For each country,
a table shows all the countries with which a BIT has been entered into. The
date of signature and (if available) entry into force are also provided.
For BITs entered
into by/with states that are not signatories to ICSID, for example Canada,
Mexico, Poland and Turkey, please consult the Countries Browse Category for
these countries or use the Search Engine. Further information can be found in
the Guide to ICSID Arbitration by Lucy Reed, Jan Paulsson & Nigel Blackaby,
also included in Kluwer Arbitration.
The Conventions
category contains the most important conventions dealing with arbitration. If
available, documents in this category will contain a link to a list of
Contracting States.
The Countries category allows you to browse materials on the site by
country, including:
organizations, court decisions, BITs, awards, legislation, rules and commentary. This means that if you are
researching a specific country you will be able to find all the relevant
information in one easy to use repository.
The Legislation
category provides direct access to the texts of national laws by country.
Please note that this category also includes old versions of these documents
that are no longer applicable but are still valuable for research.
The NY Convention
Decisions browse category has been developed together
with the International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA) to allow users
to better conduct research on the New York Convention and on related court
decisions. By simply selecting an article of the convention and one of Prof.
Albert Jan van den Berg's topics, you can access all associated court decisions
in the database convention, as well as a wide range of corresponding
commentary.
The Organizations category provides direct access
to a directory of the world's most significant organizations, providing a list
of hyperlinks for the arbitral institutions and related rules and awards where
available.
The Rules category provides direct access to a directory of the world's
most significant organizations, providing a list of hyperlinks for the arbitral
institutions and related rules and awards where available. Please note that this category also includes old
versions of these documents that are no longer applicable but are still
valuable for research
The Kluwer Arbitration virtual library includes a wealth of authoritative
publications from the extensive Kluwer Law International arbitration catalogue.
The Kluwer Arbitration virtual library also includes all
issues of five of the world's leading arbitration periodicals:
The New on the Site section displays
recently added items to the Kluwer Arbitration database over a period of 30
circa days. These items are also displayed separately on the home page under:
The items are listed together in the
New on the Site section, indicating whether they are news and materials, blog
posts or recently added materials.
The IAI Arbitrator Tool has been
developed in conjunction with the International Arbitration Institute (IAI). The
IAI maintains a Directory of members that is considered one of the best sources
of biographical information on arbitration specialists. It contains
biographical details of over 600 members in 44 countries.
The IAI Arbitrator Tool allows you
to search the IAI Directory and compare the members’ details. In addition, the
tool links up to members’ publications and awards in the Kluwer Arbitration
database. The IAI Arbitrator Tool contains profiles of all IAI members that
have provided their consent to be involved.
Using the IAI Arbitrator Tool you
can search for an arbitration specialist either by name or critera.
2. Select or omit these criteria for your
search by scrolling down and ticking the relevant boxes under the categories
provided.
3. Click on Search or press ‘Enter’ on your keyboard
to display the results of your search at the bottom of the page, with the name,
nationality and country of residence specified for all the IAI members that
conform to the criteria selected.
Note:
The list of details for each arbitrator can be expanded or collapsed by
pressing the + or – buttons.
4. Compare an unlimited number of arbitrators
from your criteria based search for further research.
5. Select the arbitrators you are interested
in by checking the relevant boxes or by checking the Select all box. Click Compare or press
‘Enter’ on your keyboard to display a side-by-side comparison of all the IAI
members selected.
Note:
To view the IAI Directory in general or view the full IAI profile of an
arbitrator in particular, please click the hyperlinks highlighted by the green
IAI logo. This will take you to the relevant page of the http://www.iaiparis.com
website.
The Smart Charts have been edited by
Audley Sheppard, Head of International Arbitration Group, Clifford Chance LLP,
with the assistance of James Dingley, Clifford Chance LLP, and a dedicated team
of country contributors.
The question and answer Smart Charts
allow you to quickly examine and/or compare specific content by particular
jurisdiction or arbitral institution. The charts include:
Each set of Smart Charts is accessible in three simple steps. After
having chosen a particular set of Smart Charts do the following:
1.
Select
one or more jurisdictions or arbitral institutions (depending on the type of
Smart Charts chosen) that you would like to compare by checking the relevant
boxes. Then press Next
at the bottom of the screen.
2.
Select
one or more topics/sub-topics/questions that you would like to examine for the
jurisdiction(s) or arbitral institution(s) selected previously. Then press Next at the bottom of
the screen.
Note: To
return to the previews screen to review and/or amend your selection, press the Prev button. Also, the
list of topics/sub-topics can be expanded or collapsed by pressing the + or –
buttons.
3.
Review
the results of your selection.
o To go back a step to review and/or amend
your selection, press the Prev
button at the bottom of the screen.
o To undertake a fresh query, press ‘Start
Over’.
Note: The results can be displayed in a ‘Chart
View’ or in a ‘Matrix View’ (see the drop-down option at the top of the
screen). The chart view allows you to see the related hierarchy of
topics/sub-topics for each query while the matrix view presents all the
selected queries side-by-side in a table. The results can be printed by pressing
the printer icon, or exported, either as a MS Excel spreadsheet or MS Word
document, by pressing the export icon.
The Quick Search feature enables you to search and refine results
afterwards throughout all content categories and sources wherever you are on
the site. To refine your search beforehand, please use the advanced search form
to combine two or more search fields.
The Advanced Search form includes a variety of options for
performing a customized, advanced search. The Advanced Search page
includes various free text search term fields, date restrictors and drop down
lists that allow you to further customize your search.
The Advanced Search page contains the following search fields:
Once
you have entered your search criteria and processed your search, your search
results list will display. At this point, you will have the option to open a
single document or to select multiple documents to email or print. You will
also have the option to narrow down the displayed results by using the
following:
When
using an Asterisk (*) Wildcard, type an asterisk (*) in place of a character in
your search term to indicate that any number of characters can be substituted
in place of the asterisk.
For
example, if you type arbitra* as your search term, your results will
include arbitrability, arbitration, arbitrations, etc.
Use
double quotes (" ") to define a phrase rather than a simple
collection of terms.
Boolean
connectors are words that are used to combine different kinds of searches
within one field.
You
can use the following Boolean operators to refine your search term(s):
Kluwer Arbitration enables you to email selected documents
from a document or search results list.
Recipients will receive a header in
their email, not the whole document. Clicking the header will take the
recipient back to the specific document on Kluwer Arbitration. Note:
Recipients of emailed documents also need to be Arbitration subscribers to be
able to open the documents sent to them.
Tip! Multiple documents can be selected at one
time. To select all the listed documents, click the Select all button.
Kluwer Arbitration enables you to print selected documents
both from a document or search results list and from individual documents.
Important! Please refrain from using the print icon
in your browser menu bar (ALT+R). Also, please refrain from choosing Print
(CTRL+P) from the File menu. Due to browser-related bugs, which cannot be
addressed by Kluwer Law International, this will not have the desired effect of
printing documents in full.
1.
Select
one or multiple documents by checking the check box next to each document that
you want to print.
2.
Select
Print Selected from the Email Selected/Print Selected dropdown menu.
3.
Click
the Go button. The Print Preview
page will display for the selected document(s).
4.
Go
to ‘File’ > ‘Print Preview’ and then chose ‘Print’ to print the document(s)
as displayed in the Print Preview Page.
Tip! Multiple documents can be selected at one
time. To select all the listed documents, click the Select all on this page
checkbox.
1.
Select
and open the document of your choice.
2.
Click
on the Printer icon. The Print
Preview page will display for the selected document.
3.
Go
to ‘File’ > ‘Print Preview’ and then choose ‘Print’ to print the document as
displayed in the Print Preview Page.
Kluwer
Arbitration Blog is a publication of Kluwer Law International providing
information and news on international arbitration. We have gathered
together leading experts from law firms, arbitration institutions, and academia
to report on the latest developments. They in turn have enlisted
professional colleagues of diverse backgrounds to offer both established and
new voices into the mix. The result is a fresh, high-quality, and timely
examination of the world of international arbitration.
The
Kluwer Arbitration Blog consists of regular entries of commentary and
description of events. Entries are displayed in reverse-chronological order.
 The main page has a contributors section that lists the latest posts from
the frequent contributors to the Kluwer Arbitration Blog. You can also view
Summaries and Full Text versions of RSS feeds. Additionally, you can search
blogs by categories, Contributor List, Affiliates List, or Archives. Finally,
readers are encouraged to leave comments with each post.
The
ITA Report is a periodic overview of all the news and materials covered by the
ITA Board of Reporters and added to the Kluwer Arbitration database, which is sent
to subscribers via email. Customers can subscribe to the ITA Report by signing
up to on the home page in the ITA Report section.