Feeling unfriendly about being arbitration friendly? It's OK!

The SADRC Research webinar is please to welcome Benjamin Hayward from Monash University on the topic of "Feeling Unfriendly About Being Arbitration Friendly? It's OK!"

Within professional discussions around international commercial arbitration, it is almost impossible to escape the concepts of arbitration friendliness, being pro-arbitration, and being pro-enforcement. All three concepts are regularly deployed as ICA evaluative tools. But are they useful? This research project critiques all three and shows them to be flawed evaluative tools. 

In their place, I propose three alternative criteria - efficiency, economic viability, and effectiveness - which revert back to key ICA user concerns regarding time, cost, and quality, and which provide us with a more meaningful way to evaluate ICA as a dispute resolution process.

Meet the speaker:

Dr Benjamin Hayward is an Associate Professor in the Department of Business Law and Taxation at the Monash Business School at Monash University in Australia. Dr Hayward researches in and has published widely in a number of related areas of law seeking to support the conduct of international trade: including international commercial arbitration law, international sale of goods law, and private international law. 

His teaching work at the Monash Business School helps first year Bachelor of Business and Bachelor of Commerce students understand how the law will affect their future professional careers. Otherwise, Dr Hayward regularly shares his research with audiences outside of academia via presentations and webinars, podcasts and interviews, blog posts, and participation in law reform processes.