12Mar2010
A Response to Alexis Mourre
Does a blind law professor intend to destroy the benefits of the New York Convention? Reading the post of Alexis Mourre, I was wondering whether I should react to it, as the post refers to my opinion at least incompletely. However, as I’m still convinced that a fair and open discussion is beneficial, I would like to make the following four annotations to his response: (1) I do not (longer) propose to delete the arbitration exception of the Judgments Regulation (JR) entirely; (2) the proposal of the Heidelberg Report is completely in line with Articles V and VII of the New York Convention; (3) the IBA Arbitration Committee’s proposals of enlarging the grounds of non-recognition under Arti [...]
