From Steamships to Ice Skates: The CJEU’s Icy Glide Through Arbitration

p class="MsoNormal"In the world of European Union (EU) law and arbitration, the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) plays the ice-skating judge. The CJEU has taken the role of deciding whether arbitral awards should wear the crown of EU law conformity before they can move freely across Member States. Recent cases like London Steamship and International Skating Union (ISU) have shown the CJEU insisting on a routine where EU law may trump arbitral autonomy, especially in proceedings involving EU law. This approach could chill the atmosphere, making the warm embrace of the New York Convention 1958 (NYC 1958) for cross-border arbitral awards seem like a nostalgic memory.o:p/o:p