Arbitration Law
Mohammadali Bahmaei; Ehsan Solhi
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The New York Convention of 1958 as the major international instrument about arbitration, despite its title, does not entirely concern recognition and enforcement of arbitral awards, but also deals with the recognition and enforcement of arbitration agreements. It was dealt with this later subject in ...
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The New York Convention of 1958 as the major international instrument about arbitration, despite its title, does not entirely concern recognition and enforcement of arbitral awards, but also deals with the recognition and enforcement of arbitration agreements. It was dealt with this later subject in Art. II which was, at the initiative of Dutch delegation, included into the text at the closing date of the Conference and led to various ambiguities before Doctrine and inside the case law of member states and it can be said that Art. II is one of the thorniest provisions of this international instrument. The issues ranging from arbitration agreements covered by the Convention, the applicable law to arbitrability of the dispute, and compliance with formal requirements, inconsistent with international trade, to conclude arbitration agreement, to the issues regarding the ambiguities of Para. 3 of this Article concerning process, conditions and obstacles to the enforcement of arbitration agreements, caused the application of Art. II of this instrument to be viewed as Achilles' heel in the case law of member states to the extent that even some old proponents of the Convention have insisted on amendment of this instrument, including Art. II, and proposed for a so-called Miami Draft. In conjunction with examination of the ambiguities of Art. II, this essay examines its application in the case law of the member states and as well as the Miami Draft. It is hoped that this enriched case law could help Iranian courts in harmonized application of the Convention in the stage of recognition and enforcement of arbitration agreements.
Private Law
Mohsen Esmaili; Mahdi Abbasi Sarmadi
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AbstractThe conflict resolution rules pertaining to determination of applicable law on the subjects of intellectual property law including copyright are seriously challenged by the advent of Internet. This is because of much increase in the possibility of misuse from copyrighted works and also infringement ...
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AbstractThe conflict resolution rules pertaining to determination of applicable law on the subjects of intellectual property law including copyright are seriously challenged by the advent of Internet. This is because of much increase in the possibility of misuse from copyrighted works and also infringement of the creator’s rights around the world due to the spread of Internet use. The specific nature of intellectual property and the domination of the principle of territoriality as well as the diversity of these rights and lack of internationally accepted conflict resolution rules specific to intellectual property law lead to numerous different problems for the courts in each of the different countries of the world. Hence, in order to achieve the most effective rules of conflict resolutions in this field and particularly in relation to solving the problems caused by Internet, existing laws and regulations were studied using documentary method. The findings of this research indicate that the closest connection rule which is raised and supported by modern academic approaches such as the system designed by American Law Institute can be useful and effective in confronting the challenges and limitations of intellectual property law both in theoretical and practical aspects.
Mahmood Bagheri; Ebrahim Noshadi
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The use of information technology in business has led to challenges in the rules governing jurisdiction and applicable law as, these rules are mainly based on the principle of physical approximation, while there is no physical space in the cyberspace, so how we can apply this principle to find out appropriate ...
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The use of information technology in business has led to challenges in the rules governing jurisdiction and applicable law as, these rules are mainly based on the principle of physical approximation, while there is no physical space in the cyberspace, so how we can apply this principle to find out appropriate jurisdiction either law or court. Accordingly, this element of cyberspace has challenged the traditional legal rules of jurisdiction, which is based on place. This advent raised the question of whether legal actions in cyberspace can be regulated by traditional legal rules. In order to answer this question, we categorize rules governing on the determination of jurisdiction and applicable law according to their basis, and then fundamental bases of jurisdiction rules including mental factor and objective factor will be evaluated functionally.
