The relationship between the European Union law and arbitration is assessed from several perspectives: from the point of view of a researcher in European Union law and from the experience in the field of arbitration. This discussion is not only academic one, but has important consequences for the application of law, especially the application of European Union law by arbitral tribunals. It is also a paradox: on the one hand, in some...

The autonomy of EU law is governed by two different, albeit intertwined, dynamics. Negatively, autonomy seeks to defi ne what EU law is not, i.e it is not ordinary international law. Positively, autonomy seeks to define what EU law is, i.e. an autonomous legal order that has the capacity to operate as a self-sufficient system of norms. That said, it is submitted that the concept of autonomy of EU law in no way conveys the message th...