The New Brussels I Regime and Arbitration – Finding an Interface

  • Petra Hietanen-Kunwald University of Helsinki, Faculty of Law
  • Riikka Koulu University of Helsinki, Faculty of Law
  • Santtu Turunen University of Helsinki, Faculty of Law
Keywords: Brussels I • arbitration • New York Convention • lis pendens • parallel proceedings

Abstract

As the revision process of Brussels I Regime has focused on the abolition of exequatur procedures, the interface between the Regulation and arbitration has been mostly a side note. Regardless of the fact that the systems of the Brussels I Regime and arbitration are two separate autonomous systems, overlapping issues arise. These interfaces have been discussed in the case-law of ECJ and later during the revision process. In the end, recitals elaborating the interface were added to the preamble of the Regulation, but no changes to the arbitration exclusion were introduced. The recital 12 aims to clarify how the arbitration exclusion adopted in the Regulation should be interpreted in the future. However, future case-law of ECJ is elemental to define the full meaning of the recitals.

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Author Biographies

Petra Hietanen-Kunwald, University of Helsinki, Faculty of Law
M. S., Research fellow, University of Helsinki, Faculty of Law, P. Box 4, 00014 University of Helsinki, Finland, e-mail: petra.hietanen-kunwald@helsinki.fi
Riikka Koulu, University of Helsinki, Faculty of Law
Ph. D., Research fellow, University of Helsinki, Faculty of Law, P. Box 4, 00014 University of Helsinki, Finland, e-mail: Riikka.koulu@helsinki.fi
Santtu Turunen, University of Helsinki, Faculty of Law
LL. M., Research fellow, University of Helsinki, Faculty of Law, P. Box 4, 00014 University of Helsinki, Finland, e-mail: Santtu.turunen@comi.fi.

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2017-01-11
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Hietanen-Kunwald P., Koulu R., & Turunen S. (2017). The New Brussels I Regime and Arbitration – Finding an Interface. LeXonomica, 8(2), 93-114. Retrieved from https://journals.um.si/index.php/lexonomica/article/view/35
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