International Arbitration Agreement: Is Legal Uniformity Still a Possibility?

On 10 June 2015, Professor Ahmed Sharaf El Din, Professor at the Faculty of Law, Ain Shams University delivered a lecture entitled “International Arbitration Agreement: Is Legal Uniformity Still a Possibility?” Professor Sharaf El Din questioned the likelihood of unifying the legal system of the international arbitration agreement through a thorough reading of the awards rendered by the courts in Egypt, France and the UK. Through the process, he analyzed the different scholastic methodologies of defining the law applicable to the international arbitration agreement. Attended by a number of in-house counsels, the lecture triggered wide range of questions and answers.