A navigation in the uncharted waters of different legal systems: enforcement of foreign arbitral awards in Greece
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Eva Litina, Athens, Greece enlitina@aegean.gr Dispute Resolution Section scholarship winning paper 2017 This paper explores the conflicts of legal cultures and systems that come to the surface during enforcement proceedings of foreign arbitral awards. It first discusses the current international legal regime in enforcement of foreign arbitral awards. Then, it examines the receptiveness of a civil law jurisdiction towards arbitral awards issued under common law, using Greece as a case study. For this analysis, a specific reference to maritime arbitral awards is appropriate, given the position of Greece as a major shipping nation, which results in many enforcement proceedings of maritime...