An Innovative Matrix for Dispute Resolution: The Dubai World Tribunal and the Global Insolvency Crisis

52 Pages Posted: 22 Sep 2016 Last revised: 5 Apr 2017

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Jayanth K. Krishnan

Indiana University Maurer School of Law

Harold Koster

University of Dubai; Leiden University; Government of the Netherlands - Court of Appeal

Date Written: September 21, 2016

Abstract

This study examines a legal experiment that occurred during the height of the global financial crisis. As markets from the United States to Europe to the Global South shook, one country – the United Arab Emirates – found itself on the brink of economic collapse. In particular, in 2009 the U.A.E’s Emirate of Dubai was contemplating defaulting on $60 billion of debt it had amassed. Recognizing that such a default would have cataclysmic reverberations across the globe, Dubai’s governmental leaders turned to a small group of foreign lawyers, judges, accountants, and business consultants for assistance. Working in a coordinated fashion, these external and internal actors soon imported into the Emirate a new regime of insolvency laws – and even an Anglo-American insolvency court – to help resolve Dubai’s financial troubles. Drawing upon elite theory scholarship, as well as on primary and secondary sources of data, this study argues that traditional ways of analyzing foreign influences on a domestic landscape need to be refined and further nuanced so as to take into account such important comparative cases as Dubai.

Keywords: Dubai World Tribunal, Insolvency

Suggested Citation

Krishnan, Jayanth K. and Koster, Harold and Koster, Harold, An Innovative Matrix for Dispute Resolution: The Dubai World Tribunal and the Global Insolvency Crisis (September 21, 2016). Journal of Dispute Resolution, No. 2, 2016, Indiana Legal Studies Research Paper No. 358, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2841894

Jayanth K. Krishnan (Contact Author)

Indiana University Maurer School of Law ( email )

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United States

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Harold Koster

University of Dubai

United Arab Emirates

Leiden University ( email )

Leiden
Netherlands

Government of the Netherlands - Court of Appeal ( email )

Amsterdam
Netherlands

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