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The New York International Arbitration Center (NYIAC) is an independent not-for-profit organization focused on providing hearing center services for international arbitrations, mediations and other forms of alternative dispute resolution under any arbitration rules. NYIAC does not administer hearings, but provides hearing rooms, breakout rooms ...
Nowadays many countries have adopted arbitration laws based on the UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration. This works with the New York Convention so that the provisions on making an enforceable award, or asking a court to set it aside or not enforce it, are the same under the Model Law and the New York Convention.
It is headquartered at the Equitable Building in New York City. The AAA also administers International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR), established in 1996 and overseas international arbitration proceedings initiated under AAA rules. ICDR currently (as of 2018) has offices in New York City, Mexico City, Singapore, and Bahrain. [1]
Arbitration was promoted as being faster, less adversarial, and cheaper. The result was the New York Arbitration Act of 1920, followed by the United States Arbitration Act of 1925 (now known as the Federal Arbitration Act). Both made agreements to arbitrate valid and enforceable (unless one party could show fraud or unconscionability or some ...
American Arbitration Association (International Center for Dispute Resolution) AAA (ICDR) New York United States: 1926 International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes: ICSID (ICSID) Washington DC United States: 1966 Center for Arbitration and Mediation of the Chamber of Commerce Brazil-Canada: CAM-CCBC (CAM-CCBC) São Paulo Brazil: 1979
Former Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service headquarters in Washington, D.C. (now demolished). The Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service was created as an independent agency of the federal government under the terms of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (better known as the Taft–Hartley Act) to replace the United States Conciliation Service that previously operated within ...
Robert Harris Mnookin [1] is an American lawyer, author, and the Samuel Williston Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. [2] [3] He focuses largely on dispute resolution, negotiation, and arbitration and was one of the primary co-arbitrators that resolved a 7-year software rights dispute between IBM and Fujitsu in the 1980s.
JAMS, formerly known as Judicial Arbitration and Mediation Services, Inc. [1] is a United States–based for-profit organization of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) services, including mediation and arbitration. [2] [3] H. Warren Knight, a former California Superior Court judge, founded JAMS in 1979 in Santa Ana, California. [4]