Kluwer: Moral Rights & Public Policy: Enforcing California Arbitration Awards Under the 1958 New York Convention

The New York Convention's promise is deceptively simple: an arbitral award made in one contracting state shall be recognized and enforced in another. After more than six decades in operation, with 172 contracting states, the Convention has largely delivered on that promise. But nowhere is the gap between the Convention's general pro-enforcement architecture and its practical limits more interesting than in the international entertainment industry.