At head of title: International Council for Commercial Arbitration.

"With the assistance of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, Peace Palace, The Hague."

"International Arbitration Conference, Rio de Janeiro, 23-26 May 2010"--Series title page.

Includes bibliographical references.

The transnational advocate / Donald Francis Donovan -- Advocacy in international arbitration : an art, a science or a technique? / Antonio Crivellaro -- Strategic management in commencing an arbitration / V.V. Veeder -- Promoting peace before conflict : integrating alternative methods of dispute resolution into the arbitration process / John M. Townsend -- Use of the media by counsel in investor-state arbitration / Meg Kinnear and Aïssatour Diop -- Written advocacy / Guillermo Aguilar Alvarez -- Discovery in international arbitration : a foreign creature for civil lawyers? Annex I: Timing and other issues of time management / Jalal El Ahdab and Amal Bouchenaki -- Witness preparation : a key to effective advocacy in international arbitration / Nigel Blackaby -- Protocol on expert teaming : a new approach to expert evidence / Klaus Sachs with the assistance of Nils Schmidt-Ahrendts -- Should experts be neutrals or advocates? / Dushyant Dave -- Discoverability of communications between counsel and party-appointed experts in international arbitration / Paul Friedland and Kate Brown de Vejar -- Oral advocacy and time control in international arbitration. Annex I: The economics of oral advocacy and time control / David J.A. Cairns -- The examination and cross-examination of witnesses / Marinn Carlson -- The effective use of legal sources : how much is too much and what is the role for Iura Novit Curia? / Claus von Wobeser -- The relative merits of oral argument and post-hearing briefs / Alejandro A. Escobar -- Post-award advocacy : the relationship between interim and final awards : Res Judicata concerns / Eduardo Zuleta -- Correction and clarification of arbitral awards / Luiz Olavo Baptista -- ICSID annulment procedure : a balancing exercise between correctness and finality / Gabriela Alvarez Avila -- Fundamental rights and international arbitration : arbitral awards and constitutional law / Laurence Boisson de Chazournes -- On the internationalization of administrative contracts, arbitration and the Calvo Doctrine / Guido Santiago Tawil -- Mandatory rules : what's a lawyer to do? / Josefa Sicard-Mirabel -- State immunity, public policy and international commercial arbitration / Teresa Cheng -- Ethics in international arbitration / Doak Bishop -- The compelling need for a code of ethics in international arbitration : transparency, integrity and legitimacy / Doak Bishop and Margrete Stevens -- International code of ethics for lawyers practicing before international arbitral tribunals.