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THE CONCEPT OF ACCUMULATION (CONCENTRATION) OF SOCIALLY SIGNIFICANT PUBLIC ELEMENTS IN LEGAL RELATION AS A BASIS FOR NON-ARBITRABILITY OF A DISPUTE
V.V. EREMIN,
Research Assistant, Fundamental Science Department,
Saint Petersburg State University
https://doi.org/10.24031/2226-0781-2021-11-3-191-211
This article examines a relatively new phenomenon of domestic law enforcement practice –
the arbitrability of disputes with a “public element”. Increasingly, the possibility of arbitration
in disputes in which there is a so-called public element is being questioned. The courts do
not disclose the concept of a public element. From the general understanding, it is only
deduced that we are talking about public entities as participants in civil law relations,
about the involvement of public property and budget financing in such relations. All the
above relationships form an urgent problem of arbitration, which has a consequence in
the form of refusal of state courts to enforce arbitral awards. This controversial judicial
practice also gave rise to a controversial concept, which in the doctrine is called the concept
of accumulation (concentration) of socially significant public elements. This concept raises
questions from the point of view of the theoretical perception of this phenomenon: neither
foreign nor domestic doctrine knew this phenomenon. Until this moment, only minor
attempts were made to analyze this concept, as well as to analyze individual public elements
and their impact on the legal relationship in terms of the possibility of a dispute from this
legal relationship to be considered by arbitration. Bridging this gap is this article.
Keywords: arbitration; arbitrability; international commercial arbitration; public policy;
public entity; public element.
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Information about the author
V.V. Eremin (Saint Petersburg, Russia) – Research Assistant, Fundamental Science
Department, Saint Petersburg State University (7-9 Universitetskaia Emb., Saint
Petersburg, 199034, Russia; e-mail: [email protected]).
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