Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2001
Abstract
In August 2000, the Center for Public Resources Institute for Dispute Resolution (“CPR”) – one of the pre-eminent alternative dispute resolution organizations in the United States – announced revisions to its Rules for Non-Administered Arbitration of International Disputes (the “International Rules” or the “Rules”). CPR first promulgated its International Rules in April 1992 as an alternative – indeed, the only alternative currently available – to the international ad hoc arbitration rules issued in 1976 by the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (the “UNCITRAL Rules”). According to the Chair of the CPR Committee that prepared the original CPR International Rules, the CPR International Rules are designed “to respond better to the practical realities of international commercial arbitration” than do the Uncitral Rules. The recent revisions to CPR's International Rules, which became effective as of 15 September 2000, are intended to update and improve the International Rules in light of modern international arbitration law and practice so as to ensure that they offer state-of-the-art procedures for ad hoc arbitration of international business disputes.
The following provides an overview of the CPR International Rules and describes the deliberations and rationales underlying the most significant of the changes made to the Rules.
Disciplines
Dispute Resolution and Arbitration | Law
Recommended Citation
Robert H. Smit,
The Newly Revised CPR Rules for Non-Administered Arbitration of International Disputes,
18
J. Int'l Arb.
59
(2001).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/faculty_scholarship/4660
Comments
Reprinted from Journal of International Arbitration, volume 18, issue 1, 2001, pp. 59-100, with permission of Kluwer Law International.