2 Month — Certificate in ADR
Building your foundation in arbitration: understanding ADR principles and procedures for future legal career.
Skills you'll learn
Many law students struggle to see how the arbitration laws they study in textbooks apply to real disputes outside the courtroom. While theory fills your syllabus, practical understanding of how businesses and parties resolve conflicts through arbitration often remains elusive.
This course, Essentials of Arbitration: Building Your Foundation in ADR, is designed specifically for law students ready to bridge that gap. It cuts through the complexity by focusing on the actual process—from drafting arbitration agreements to understanding tribunal roles and award enforcement—with clear, practical guidance.
Through step-by-step lessons, real case examples, and hands-on exercises, you will gain the confidence and clarity to navigate arbitration procedures. This course turns abstract legal principles into actionable skills you can use immediately in internships, moot courts, and your growing legal career.
Gain a solid foundation in alternative dispute resolution and make arbitration an approachable, valuable part of your legal toolkit.
Course Structure
Engaging and Structured Videos: Learn at your own pace with our expertly crafted video lectures delivered by leading industry professionals. Whether you are exploring a new area of law or reinforcing your existing expertise, the series of short videos (around 2-3 minutes each) empower you to learn at your own pace, revisiting concepts as needed. Each video segment is thoughtfully crafted to explain the practical applications and processes related to the specific Definition, Concept, Explanation, Section, or Article being covered.
Interactive Live Classes: Enhance your learning experience with two live classes where you can engage directly with expert instructors. These sessions provide opportunities for real-time Q&A, practical demonstrations, and in-depth discussions to clarify doubts and deepen your understanding of key topics.
Practical Assignments and Solutions: Solidify your knowledge with practical exercises that put theory into action. Wherever required, practical assignments are explained in detail through ‘Solutions Videos’ or ‘Solutions Guide’, wherein our experts walk you through each and every step for solving the practical legal problems either through Videos or a documentary guide.
Q&A for Knowledge Mastery: Test your understanding and gain clarity through Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) at the end of chapters. These MCQs test your comprehension and application of mind ensuring you have the right understanding of the course material.
Start today and take your first step toward mastering ADR.
- 📕 Introduction
- ▸ Introducing the course
- 📕 Introducing arbitration law
- ▸ What is arbitration?
- ▸ Limiting the need for judicial intervention
- ▸ Choosing the correct mode of ADR
- ▸ Deciding if the dispute can be referred to arbitration
- ▸ Referring particular disputes to arbitration
- ✒ Exercises
- ☆ Feedback
- 📕 The arbitration agreement
- ▸ Concept of arbitration agreement
- ▸ Negotiating an arbitration agreement
- ▸ Drafting an arbitration agreement
- ▸ Paying stamp duty and registration
- ▸ Enforcing an arbitration agreement
- ▸ Doctrine of severability
- ✒ Exercises
- 📕 Invoking arbitration
- ▸ Invoking arbitration with a notice
- ▸ Determining the arbitration proceedings’ commencement date
- ▸ Calculating the limitation period
- ▸ Replying to a notice invoking arbitration
- ▸ Parties to the arbitration proceedings
- ✒ Exercises
- 📕 Filing or dealing with objections to arbitration
- ▸ Objecting to a suit filed in the civil court
- ▸ Court’s refusal to enforce the arbitration agreement
- ▸ Applying for anti-arbitration injunctions
- ▸ Judicial intervention through writ petitions?
- ✒ Exercises
- 📕 Determining the procedure for arbitration proceedings
- ▸ Understanding agreeable procedures
- ▸ Institutional and ad hoc arbitration procedures
- ▸ Determining procedure where it’s not decided
- ▸ Fast track procedure
- ▸ Challenging irregular procedure
- ✒ Exercises
- 📕 Determining the arbitral tribunal
- ▸ Appointing an arbitrator named in the arbitration agreement
- ▸ Approaching the court to appoint an arbitrator and limitation period
- ▸ Extent of court’s power to appoint the arbitral tribunal
- ▸ Expiry of stipulated period under Section 11
- ▸ Substituting a named arbitrator
- ▸ Agreeing on the composition of the arbitral tribunal after invocation
- ▸ Objecting to validity of agreement while agreeing on composition
- ▸ Grounds for challenging the arbitrator
- ✒ Exercises
- 📕 An arbitrator’s fee
- ▸ Fixing an arbitrator's fees, costs or charges
- ✒ Exercises
- 📕 Removing or substituting an arbitrator
- ▸ Grounds for removing arbitrator
- ▸ Procedure for removing arbitrator
- ▸ Substituting an arbitrator during the pendency of arbitration proceedings
- ✒ Exercises
- 📕 Jurisdiction of arbitral tribunal and courts
- ▸ Applying to arbitral tribunal to determine its jurisdiction or competence
- ▸ Deciding the venue, place or seat of arbitration
- ▸ Deciding territorial jurisdiction
- ✒ Exercises
- 📕 Proceedings
- ▸ Attending a preliminary meeting
- ▸ Preparing a draft procedural order
- ▸ Filing pleadings in arbitration proceedings
- ▸ Producing evidence before the arbitral tribunal
- ✒ Exercises
- 📕 Interim reliefs
- ▸ Applying for interim reliefs before the court
- ▸ Framing prayer for interim reliefs
- ▸ Choosing the forum
- ✒ Exercises
- 📕 The arbitral award
- ▸ Understanding an arbitral award
- ▸ Knowing the procedure for a valid award
- ▸ Applying for an award of interest
- ▸ Awarding costs in arbitration
- ▸ Correcting mistakes in an arbitral award
- ▸ Difficulty in correcting an award
- ✒ Exercises
- 📕 Enforcement and execution of an arbitral award
- ▸ Finality and enforceability of an award
- ▸ Enforcing and executing a domestic award
- ✒ Exercises
- 📕 Termination
- ▸ Termination proceedings
- ✒ Exercises
- 📕 Appeals and challenges
- ▸ Appealing against certain orders
- ▸ Grounds for challenging an award
- ▸ Challenging an arbitral award
- ✒ Exercises
- 📕 Conclusion
- ▸ Conclusion
- ☆ Feedback
WHY TAKE THIS COURSE
For law students, the subject of arbitration is intriguing and tricky at the same time. If you take this course as a law student, you will learn the basics of arbitration law and you will also be equipped with an in depth understanding of the procedures and practices relevant to this area of law. This course is your ideal guide for examinations as well as for excelling in placement interviews.
Since this course has been designed and developed to provide guidance on arbitration at each stage of proceedings, if you miss out on this course, you miss out on learning the practical aspects of each stage of arbitration proceedings. If you are a student and have not yet taken this course, you will miss the opportunity of making yourself thorough in the subject of arbitration before taking your examinations. During your placement interview, your future employer may ask questions related to arbitration, and not taking this could make you miss an edge over other prospective candidates.
This is a supplement-rich course comprising flowcharts, case references and formats.
Learning Formats and Resources
Instructors
Mallika Taly
Mallika Taly is an advocate practising in the Bombay High Court for almost a decade. She is a litigator and is frequently involved in arbitration matters. She is also a law academician and has published various books on arbitration with Eastern Book Company.
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