INTERNATIONAL AND DOMESTIC ARBITRATION IN SWITZERLAND

Contents VIII a. The Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague ........................15 b. OSCE Court of Conciliation and Arbitration .................................16 c. WTO Settlement of Disputes..........................................................17 d. Other international conventions .....................................................19 5. Arbitration within associations (including sports arbitration)...............19 a. The concept ....................................................................................19 b. Jurisdiction .....................................................................................20 c. Independence..................................................................................20 § 2 On the sources of Swiss arbitration law ...............................................................23 I. National and international arbitration .........................................................23 II. Part 3 CCP and its predecessor ...................................................................24 1. Introduction ..........................................................................................24 2. Scope of application .............................................................................25 3. Characteristics of Part 3 CCP ...............................................................27 III. Chap.12 PILA.............................................................................................28 1. Legislative history of Chap.12 PILA....................................................28 2. The 2020 revision of Chap.12 PILA.....................................................29 3. Characteristics of Chap.12 PILA..........................................................30 4. Constitutional basis ..............................................................................32 5. Scope of application of Chap.12 PILA.................................................32 a. Territorial scope .............................................................................33 b. Personal scope................................................................................34 c. Material scope ................................................................................36 d. Relationship to other ADR methods (functional scope) .................36 e. Agreement to exclude Chap.12 PILA (opting out).........................37 f. Agreement to apply Chap.12 PILA (opting in) ..............................39 g. Reservations and ancillary provisions ............................................40 h. Transitional rules............................................................................41 IV. Treaties .......................................................................................................43 1. New York Convention of 1958.............................................................44 2. Geneva Protocol and Geneva Convention of 1923/27 ..........................45 3. Bilateral treaties....................................................................................46 4. ICSID Convention of 1965...................................................................47 5. European Convention of 1961 ..............................................................48 V. The position of Switzerland as a place of arbitration ..................................49 § 3 Other forms of private dispute resolution.............................................................51 I. Expert determination...................................................................................51 1. Concept.................................................................................................51 2. Legal nature and contractual relations ..................................................53 3. Scope of powers of the expert-arbitrator ..............................................54 4. Conditions for the binding effect ..........................................................54