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International Commercial Arbitrators' Approaches To Contractual Interpretation, Joshua D H Karton
International Commercial Arbitrators' Approaches To Contractual Interpretation, Joshua D H Karton
Joshua Karton
This article considers the available international arbitral awards that involve interpretation of a contract. It divides the awards according to the applicable substantive law, and concludes that international commercial arbitrators generally follow the interpretive rules prescribed by the laws of civil law jurisdictions, but sometimes depart from common law interpretive methods. When international arbitrators depart from the applicable law, or when they apply general principles of international law or act as amiables compositeurs, they tend to follow a civil law approach. They see discerning the true (subjective) common intention of the parties as the goal of contractual interpretation, and while …