Enforcing foreign arbitral awards in Australia against non-signatories of the arbitration agreement

This article investigates two questions that may arise in Australian proceedings for the enforcement of a foreign arbitral award where the award-debtor is not named in the relevant arbitration agreement and asserts that it is not a party to that agreement. The first question that may be contested in those circumstances is whether the award-debtor is for some reason precluded from denying its privity to the relevant arbitration agreement. Where this is not the case, the allocation of the onus of proof with regard to the award-debtor’s privity to the agreement may become relevant. In the context of investigating these two questions, this article discusses the views expressed in IMC Aviation Solutions Pty Ltd v Altain Khuder LLC, decided in 2011 by Croft J as trial judge and then by the Victorian Court of Appeal

Féeries. Études sur le conte merveilleux xviie-xixe siècle, dossier coordonné par A. Gaillard et J.-P. Sermain

Le septième numéro de la revue annuelle Féerie, publié par  l’Unité mixte de recherche LIRE (Littérature, idéologie, représentations), est consacré aux genres du conte et de la fable. Le corpus d’articles proposés, dans lequel s’entremêlent approche générique et étude diachronique, comprend quatre articles concernant le xviie siècle dont nous proposons un compte-rendu ci-dessous. Le volume, dirigé par Aurélia Gaillard et Jean-Paul Sermain, s’ouvre sur un article introductif de ce dernier prés..

Éditorial

Naguère, R. Martin et J. Gaillard ont démontré la légitimité d’une approche autre de la littérature gréco-latine (cf. Les genres littéraires à Rome, Nathan, 1990). Ne réfléchissant plus sur une histoire de la littérature antique, qui serait comme une monade parmi d’autres histoires de la littérature, ils avaient résolument opté pour la conception de textes-palimpsestes se réécrivant les uns les autres à partir d’un texte considéré comme original. Ainsi, les Grecs et les Latins entraient dans ..

When Governments Write Contracts: Policy and Expertise in Sovereign Debt Markets

At least three times in the past two decades, national governments and institutions at the regional and international levels have tried to reform sovereign bond contracts to facilitate debt restructuring. Increasingly, these efforts have focused on promoting majority modifications clauses, a species of collective action clause (CAC) that facilitates a binding debt restructuring. Rather than legislate or regulate, governments have convened expert commissions, produced model CACs, and aggressively marketed these clauses to debtors and creditors. When events prove the existing CAC template inadequate or irrelevant, the process begins anew. This paper considers this mode of government intervention, which has a long pedigree dating to at least the 1930s. Public officials have long justified contract reform initiatives by invoking a narrative of market failure in which market actors do not understand the relevance and importance of CACs. We cast doubt on this narrative and explore why contract reform holds such allure as a policy tool

Féeries. Études sur le conte merveilleux xviie-xixe siècle, dossier coordonné par A. Gaillard et J.-P. Sermain

Le septième numéro de la revue annuelle Féerie, publié par  l’Unité mixte de recherche LIRE (Littérature, idéologie, représentations), est consacré aux genres du conte et de la fable. Le corpus d’articles proposés, dans lequel s’entremêlent approche générique et étude diachronique, comprend quatre articles concernant le xviie siècle dont nous proposons un compte-rendu ci-dessous. Le volume, dirigé par Aurélia Gaillard et Jean-Paul Sermain, s’ouvre sur un article introductif de ce dernier prés..

Here all seems security and peace! : How Brookeville, Maryland Became United States Capital for a Day

When the British burned Washington D.C. during the War of 1812, the city’s civilians and officials fled to the surrounding countryside to escape the carnage. Fearful that the attack on the Capital could eventually spell defeat and worried for their city, these refugees took shelter in the homes and fields of Brookeville, Maryland, a small, Quaker mill town on the outskirts of Washington. These pacifist residents of Brookeville hosted what could have been thousands of Washingtonians in the days following the attack, ensuring the safety of not only the people of Washington, but of President Madison himself. As hosts to the President, the home of a prominent couple stood in for the President’s House, and as the effective center of command for the government, the town was crowned Capital of the United States for a day. This paper hopes to expound upon the history of this event, focusing on the Quaker community that rose so charitably to the challenge. Through an examination of primary sources, digitized archival materials, and previous research, this is a history of Brookeville as it was in August 1814, a tribute to its people and an acknowledgement of its importance

Book Reviews

Reviews of Journey into Wilderness; An Army Surgeon’s Account of Life in Camp and Field during the Creek and Seminole Wars, 1836-1838; by Jacob Rhett Motte, edited by James F. Sunderman. (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1953. Pp. xxxv, 326.; Fleur de Lys and Calumet: Being the Penicaut Narrative of French Adventure in Louisiana. Translated and edited by Richebourg Gaillard McWilliams. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1953. Pp. xxxiii, 282. Maps, illustrations, bibliography, appendixes, index. $4.00.); Introduction, four pencil sketches, nine maps, notes, bibliography, index.$6.00.