Global Arbitration Review Gives ‘Highest of Praise’ to Arbitration Treatise by Arent Fox Partner Lee Caplan

Global Arbitration Review recently published a book review of The UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules: A Commentary (2nd Edition), co-authored by Arent Fox partner Lee Caplan and Professor David Caron. The book provides an article-by-article analysis of the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules, as revised in 2010 by the UN Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL). The UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules are applicable in a wide range of arbitration, including commercial arbitration, investor-State arbitration and ad hoc arbitration. The positive review labeled the book “indispensible” and “one of the most comprehensive and dynamic commentaries of an arbitral instrument.”

GAR added: “This is one of the best examples of a book that manages to combine text and materials to perfection, never failing to engage the reader. The excerpts are linked to a context and the context itself unfolds in all its dimensions, thus providing the reader with an understanding of why the law was driven in one way and not another. The facts are very often thought of as irrelevant in many law books, but here the authors realise that they are crucial in our understanding of the law.” For a description of the book, click here.

Mr. Caplan focuses his practice on international arbitration and dispute resolution, international investment law and policy, and public international law. Before joining Arent Fox, Lee worked as a senior attorney-adviser in the US State Department’s Office of the Legal Adviser, where he successfully defended the United States in numerous arbitrations and served as the principal State Department lawyer on numerous investment treaty negotiations.

Arent Fox’s International Arbitration & Dispute Resolution practice is a leader in the area of international arbitration and dispute resolution. Led by partner Timothy J. Feighery, former Chairman of the United States Foreign Claims Settlement Commission, the group assists private entities and sovereigns in navigating the complexities of cross-border dispute resolution across a wide range of dispute settlement forums.