About SCCL:s publications
Researchers affiliated with SCCL publish their research results in a large number of articles and research reports. The ambition is that as much as possible of what is published by these researchers and by speakers at seminars and conferences organised by SCCL will also be available in open access at SCCL (https://publications.sccl.se). However, depending on circumstances and agreements with publishers, this may not take place until some time after the original publication.
With the consent of authors and other holders of rights, we have initially digitalised and made available most of what has been published in the books published by SCCL since 2008. This initially comprises 256 articles written by researchers affiliated with SCCL. Gradually the number of digitally available articles will increase.
The search function in the menu above makes it possible to search for articles both in free text and by author or by the book in which the article was originally published. On the page “Authors” there is a list of all the authors of the articles that have been digitalised and on the page “Books” there is a list of the books that have been digitalised.
In addition to digitalisation and making research results available on the website, SCCL will continue to publish books in SCCL’s publication series. This includes the SCCL Yearbook, anthologies with contributions to specific conferences and separate publications. Together with the publication series, SCCL also publishes festschrifts related to persons active at SCCL.
SCCL has an extensive library on its own premises, which was started through a donation from the late Professor Jan Hellner and through the takeover of the Library of the Institute for Company and Securities Law. The library has since been expanded through various extensive donations.
Since 2024, the Axel Ax:son Johnson Institute for Maritime and Other Transport Law is included as a research panel at SCCL https://sccl.se/forskningsavdelningar/. The Institute for Maritime Law has an extensive physical library located on SCCL’s premises, as well as a digital library available on its website https://www.sjorattsbiblioteket.se/om-institutet.
Current Issue
The arbitration community in the Nordic region is vibrant. All five of the Nordic countries have arbitration institutes: the Danish Institute of Arbitration (DIA) in Denmark, the Arbitration Institute of the Finnish Central Chamber of Commerce (FAI) in Finland, the Nordic Arbitration Center at the Iceland Chamber of Commerce (GVI), the Nordic Offshore & Maritime Arbitration Association (NOMA) and the Arbitration and Dispute Resolution Institute of the Oslo Chamber of Commerce in Norway and the SCC Arbitration Institute in Sweden. Several of these institutes administer considerable amount of domestic and international arbitration disputes. In addition, many disputes are settled in the Nordic countries under the rules of the ICC International Court of Arbitration or ad hoc.
The Nordic region could, to a considerable extent, be regarded as a domestic market in the commercial and contract law area. The choice of, for example, Swedish law means that significant and important parts of Danish, Finnish, Icelandic and Norwegian law are also included or at least could be considered when arguing a case. The parties and their advisers as well as the judges can thus be inspired by and seek support in the legal literature, legislation and case law of the other countries. This is something that provides an additional strength to arbitration in the area, as one would otherwise be confined to material in relatively small jurisdictions, which cannot be compared with, for example, such jurisdictions as the United Kingdom.
There are also other reasons for emphasizing the Nordic dimension. For example, when Danish law is chosen, a chair from one of the other Nordic countries can be appointed with confidence that they are sufficiently familiar with Danish law as part of the laws of the Nordic legal family and are familiar with the rules, general doctrines and legal concepts there, even if they come from another country in the Nordic region.
In 2023, an initiative was launched by the academic institutes in the Nordic countries to strengthen Nordic commercial and contract law in various ways. One part of this work is to strengthen arbitration in the Nordic region by working with the institutes and others to actively market the Nordic region as a suitable place for international arbitration. One way of doing this was to arrange a conference with the participation of all the institutes mentioned above, the purpose of which was to highlight the special features of Nordic law and arbitration in the Nordic countries.
Therefore, the Nordic Commercial Arbitration Forum was established as a biannual event to provide a forum for discussing different aspects of dispute settlement in the Nordic region.
The first conference, with the theme "Nordic Arbitration: A strategic choice for business" took place on 11 March 2025 in Stockholm at the premises of the SCC Arbitration Institute. At this conference different themes were discussed by different speakers or panels of speakers:
• Arbitration in the Nordic countries: How do the Nordics stand out and what explains the high level of arbitration activities in the Nordics?
• Insights in and experience of disputes in the Nordics from a commercial perspective • Presentation survey results in relation to Nordic Arbitral Institutions
• Presentation of the institutes in the Nordic countries and their activities
• Overview of professional experiences in the field of arbitration under Nordic arbitration rules, as arbitrator or as counsel
• Shared characteristics of the legal systems in the Nordic countries: How arbitration works in the Nordic context. What are the Nordic elements in international arbitration?
• Experiences in negotiating agreements and what factors to consider when deciding on choice of law, choice of seat, and the form of dispute resolution
These themes were discussed by more than 25 practitioners, academics, and representatives of the arbitration institutes (see the detailed programme below).
In this book, some of the panellists share their insights on the subject. In addition, the report "2025 Survey Report on Nordic Arbitral Institutions – Mapping Nordic Arbitral Institutions" by Ms Natalia Petrik is presented.
The conference would not have been possible to realise without the assistance and generous support from the SCC and the Swedish law firms Mannheimer Swartling and Vinge. And this book would not have been possible without the great work by Natalia Petrik and Therese Isaksson (Westerberg & Partners), Daria Kozlowska-Rautiainen (Stockholm University) and Monica Seifert (KTH).
The next conference will be organised in Oslo in 2027 by the Oslo Centre for Commercial Law and the Norwegian Arbitration Association.
By Prof., Jur. Dr. Johnny Herre
