The 1958 New York Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards is without a doubt the single most important treaty in the field of international commercial arbitration, and has enjoyed remarkable success over its half-century of use. It has been praised as a convention which 'perhaps could lay claim to be the most effective instance of international legislation in the entire history of commercial law.' In honour of the Convention's fiftieth anniversary, outstanding scholars of international commercial arbitration have contributed to this comprehensive commentary. Following a design calling for article-by-article analysis (or even, in the case of the crucial Article 5, by sub-article), this unique book provides an in-depth analysis of the Convention's first fifty years in light of internationally accessible case law from a wide range of jurisdictions around the world. In so doing it greatly clarifies and enhances our knowledge of both the theoretical underpinnings and the practical application of the Convention in its global context. The authors, each of whom is an experienced practitioner in the field of international arbitration, draw on experience in a wide variety of national jurisdictions. In addition to drafting chapters independently, each has made invaluable contributions to other authors' chapters. Authoritative case law research was further provided by dozens of contributors with expertise in specific jurisdictions worldwide. The analysis thoroughly covers the major issues that have arisen in the application of the Convention, including the following: - the use of reservations made by Contracting States; - the distinctions between recognition and enforcement and between recognition sought at the seat of the arbitration and outside the seat; - the role of the courts in reviewing arbitral awards and, in particular, the Convention's focus on safeguarding due process standards; - the more favourable rightsA" principle embodied in Article VII(1); - the relevance of forum shopping and asset spotting to the application of the Convention; and - the role of formalities and formalism. The end result is an invaluable work that will prove enormously useful to all international commercial arbitration practitioners and scholars, regardless of location.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of three workshops held at the 19th International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security, FC 2015, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in January 2015. The 22 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 39 submissions. They feature the outcome of the Second Workshop on Bitcoin Research, BITCOIN 2015, the Third Workshop on Encrypted Computing and Applied Homomorphic Cryptography, WAHC 2015, and the First Workshop on Wearable Security and Privacy, Wearable 2015.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC 2014), held in Christ Church, Barbados, in March 2014. The 19 revised full papers and 12 short papers were carefully selected and reviewed from 165 abstract registrations and 138 full papers submissions. The papers are grouped in the following topical sections: payment systems, case studies, cloud and virtualization, elliptic curve cryptography, privacy-preserving systems, authentication and visual encryption, network security, mobile system security, incentives, game theory and risk, and bitcoin anonymity.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages, COORDINATION 2013, held in Firenze, Italy, in June 2013, within the 8th International Federated Conference on Distributed Computing Techniques (DisCoTec 2013).
The 17 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 42 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics including coordination of social collaboration processes, coordination of mobile systems in peer-to-peer and ad-hoc networks, programming and reasoning about distributed and concurrent software, types, contracts, synchronization, coordination patterns, and families of distributed systems.