16 UNCITRAL Rules »
James Castello
From: Practitioner's Handbook on International Commercial Arbitration (2nd Edition)
Edited By: Frank-Bernd Weigand
16.01 The United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL or ‘the Commission’) differs from nearly every other institution in the world that promulgates rules to govern arbitration proceedings in that it plays no role in the proceedings themselves. It never administers arbitrations, nor does it even appoint arbitrators. Rather, the UNCITRAL Secretariat, based in Vienna, Austria, and comprising a small professional staff of lawyers who possess expertise in aspects of commercial law, serves only to support the work of the Commission. And the...
