Author: Stephen M. Schwebel*
Published: December 1991
| Jurisdictions: Africa Senegal |
Topics: Arbitral Adjudication International Character of Dispute Arbitral Awards Confirmation of Authentication |
Description: Is a majority vote in an international arbitral tribunal, the compromis or governing rules of which provide for decisions by majority vote, dispositive, or may the effectiveness of that vote be challenged on the ground that one of the two arbitrators constituting the ostensible majority stated a position which shows that he did not support, or fully support, the award which was carried by his vote?
This question was one of two questions of interest to the international arbitration community on which the International Court of Justice ruled in 1991 in its Judgment in the Case Concerning the Arbitral Award of 31 July 1989, On this question, the Court was unanimous.
*Judge of the International Court of Justice.