{"id":26640,"date":"2022-06-06T09:54:49","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T02:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baliarbitration.org\/newsandevent\/?p=26640"},"modified":"2024-05-16T10:12:08","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T03:12:08","slug":"textual-contextual-good-faith-or-common-intent-the-need-for-a-baseline-for-evidentiary-and-interpretative-standards-in-international-arbitration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baliarbitration.org\/newsandevent\/textual-contextual-good-faith-or-common-intent-the-need-for-a-baseline-for-evidentiary-and-interpretative-standards-in-international-arbitration\/","title":{"rendered":"Textual, Contextual, Good Faith, or Common Intent: The Need for a Baseline for Evidentiary and Interpretative Standards in International Arbitration"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Generally, the choice of substantive law applicable to a particular contract will affect the outcome of a case. \u00a0It is common, however, for the evidentiary and interpretive rules to also have important implications for a case\u2019s outcome. \u00a0Arbitral rules leave such matters to a tribunal\u2019s discretion that can be exercised in different ways.\u00a0 For instance, suppose that two disputes arise under the terms of a form agreement and that parole evidence points to a particular interpretation of the contract. Let us further suppose that one dispute is heard by an arbitrator in a jurisdiction where parole evidence is admissible as a matter of course, and the other dispute is heard in a jurisdiction where such evidence is generally inadmissible. \u00a0The outcome of the arbitrations is likely to diverge even though the arbitrators are interpreting the same agreement.\u00a0 Regrettably, this is not an isolated example of how the choice of evidentiary and\/or interpretative rules can affect the outcome of a given dispute.<\/p>

We argue that greater uniformity in evidentiary and interpretive rules in international arbitrations would ensure that outcomes turn on the choice of substantive law and\u2014unless the parties prefer otherwise\u2014not, for example, on the vicissitudes of how an arbitrator reads a contract. \u00a0To that end, we survey the different approaches to interpreting contracts in California, New York, and a few select civil law jurisdictions. \u00a0We then propose some potential reforms to evidentiary and interpretative approaches that will reduce subjectivity in outcomes irrespective of the substantive law that the parties have chosen.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Arbitration and Mediation Panelist at BIAMC<\/p>

Senior International Arbitration Advisor at Arnold and Porter\/Columbia Law School<\/p>

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Disclaimer:<\/strong> The articles published on the BIAMC platform are authored by members of the BIAMC Arbitration Panellist and do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the Bali International Arbitration & Mediation Center (BIAMC). BIAMC is not responsible for the content of the articles and does not provide any warranty as to their accuracy or completeness. The responsibility for the content, opinions expressed, and any reputational impacts thereof rests solely with the individual authors. BIAMC serves solely as a platform to showcase the works of these authors. Readers are encouraged to approach each article with a discerning view and to consider the context and perspective of the individual author.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Generally, the choice of substantive law applicable to a particular contract will affect the outcome of a case. It is common, however, for the evidentiary and interpretive rules to also have important implications for a case\u2019s outcome. Arbitral rules leave such matters to a tribunal\u2019s discretion that can be exercised in different ways<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26642,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baliarbitration.org\/newsandevent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baliarbitration.org\/newsandevent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baliarbitration.org\/newsandevent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baliarbitration.org\/newsandevent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baliarbitration.org\/newsandevent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26640"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/baliarbitration.org\/newsandevent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26655,"href":"https:\/\/baliarbitration.org\/newsandevent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26640\/revisions\/26655"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baliarbitration.org\/newsandevent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baliarbitration.org\/newsandevent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baliarbitration.org\/newsandevent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baliarbitration.org\/newsandevent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}