Note, East Meets West: Introducing Sharia into the Rules Governing International Arbitrations at the BCDR-AAA
By Elana Levi-Tawil, February 8, 2012
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The note explains a number of arbitral awards in the Middle East have gone unrecognized as a result of certain Islamic laws. The author asserts that the American Arbitration Association’s Bahrain Chamber for Dispute Resolution cannot be fully effective without incorporating certain aspects of Islam and Sharia into the rules applied to international commercial arbitration proceedings.
