{"id":1455,"date":"2023-02-13T10:31:29","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T15:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/international-law-journal\/?page_id=1455"},"modified":"2025-12-19T13:13:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T18:13:42","slug":"enforcing-international-commercial-arbitration-agreements-and-awards-in-u-s-courts-is-the-new-york-convention-a-self-executing-treaty","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/international-law-journal\/in-print\/volume-53\/volume-53-number-2-winter-2022\/enforcing-international-commercial-arbitration-agreements-and-awards-in-u-s-courts-is-the-new-york-convention-a-self-executing-treaty\/","title":{"rendered":"Enforcing International Commercial Arbitration Agreements and Awards in U.S. Courts: Is the New York Convention A &#8220;Self-Executing&#8221; Treaty?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"markedContent\"><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">The contemporary system of international commercial arbitration rests on <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">compliance with the United Nations Convention on the Recognition and <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards (the<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">\u201c<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">New York Convention<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">\u201d<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">), to <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">which the United States has been a party for over 50 years. Questions have <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">recently been raised, however, about the status of the Convention in U.S. law<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">\u2013<\/span><br role=\"presentation\" \/><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">in particular, whether it can properly be considered directly applicable in state <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">courts (as a<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">\u201c<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">self-executing<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">\u201d<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">treaty) notwithstanding its legislative<\/span><\/span><span class=\"markedContent\"><span class=\"markedContent\"> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">implementa<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">tion<\/span><\/span><\/span><span class=\"markedContent\"> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">through the Federal Arbitration Act. This article considers (i) whether a <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">duly-ratified treaty can simultaneously be directly applicable and legislatively <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">implemented, (ii) whether a U.S. court could, in the context of a specific<\/span><\/span><span class=\"markedContent\"><span class=\"markedContent\"> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">pro<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">ceeding<\/span><\/span><\/span><span class=\"markedContent\"> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">involving private parties, override the decision of the constitutionally <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">empowered<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">\u201c<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">treaty makers<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">\u201d<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">regarding the treaty\u2019s implementation, and (iii) <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">whether such a decision could give the federal government greater authority to <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">compel compliance by state courts than the implementing statute. Answering <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">those questions in the negative, it offers an alternative solution.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/international-law-journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2023\/02\/GT-GJIL230001.pdf\">Keep Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The contemporary system of international commercial arbitration rests on compliance with the United Nations Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards (the \u201cNew York Convention\u201d), to which the United States has been a party for over 50 years. Questions have recently been raised, however, about the status of the Convention in U.S. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9018,"featured_media":0,"parent":1412,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"abstract.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1455","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/international-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/international-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/international-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/international-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9018"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/international-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1455"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/international-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3281,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/international-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1455\/revisions\/3281"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/international-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/international-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}