The Oxford Handbook of International Arbitration

• 1: Thomas Schultz and Niccolò Ridi: Arbitration Literature


• Part I: Cornerstones


• 2: William W. Park: Arbitration and Law


• 3: Alex Mills: Arbitral Jurisdiction


• 4: Jan Paulsson: Appointment of Arbitrators


• 5: Stavros Brekoulakis: Transnational Public Policy in International Arbitration


• 6: Ursula Kriebaum: Human Rights and International Investment Arbitration


• 7: Andrea K. Bjorklund: Enforcement of awards


• 8: V.V. Veeder: Inter-State arbitration


• Part II: Actors


• 9: Thomas Schultz: The Ethos of Arbitration


• 10: Florian Grisel: Marginals and Elites in International Arbitration


• 11: Jacqueline Nolan-Haley: Mediators in Arbitration


• 12: Nathalie Bernasconi, Martin Dietrich Brauch, and Howard Mann: Civil Society and International Investment Arbitration: Tracing the Evolution of Concern


• 13: Jean d'Aspremont: The Control Over Knowledge by International Courts and Arbitral Tribunals


• Part III


• 14: Loukas Mistelis: Efficiency. What Else? Efficiency as the Emerging Defining Value of International Arbitration: Between Systems Theories and Party Autonomy


• 15: Frédéric Bachand and Fabien Gélinas: Legal Certainty and Arbitration


• 16: Ralf Michaels: International Arbitration as Private and Public Good


• 17: David Schneiderman: Investment Arbitration as Constitutional Law: Constitutional Analogies, Linkages, and Absences


• 18: Makane Moïse Mbengue and Deepak Raju: The Environment and Investment Arbitration


• 19: David Caron and Esme Shirlow: The Multiple Forms of Transparency in International Investment Arbitration: Their Implications, and Their Limits


• 20: Tibisay Morgandi: Arbitration and Offshore Resources in Disputed Maritime Areas

Thomas Schultz is Professor of Law at King's College London, Professor of International Arbitration at the University of Geneva, Visiting Professor of International Law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, and Co-Director of the Geneva Center for International Dispute Settlement. He is the author of Transnational Legality: Stateless Law and International Arbitration (Oxford University Press 2014), Information Technology and Arbitration: A Practitioner's Guide (Kluwer 2006), Réguler le commerce électronique par la résolution des litiges en ligne (Bruylant 2005) and Online Dispute Resolution (Kluwer 2004, with Gabrielle Kaufmann-Kohler), and the Editor-in-Chief and founder of the Journal of International Dispute Settlement (Oxford University Press).


Federico Ortino is Reader in International Economic Law at King's College London and a Consultant to Clifford Chance, specialising in international trade and investment law. He is a member of the ILA Committee on The Rule of Law and International Investment Law; member of the Executive Council (and former co-treasurer) of the Society of International Economic Law; member of the E15 Task Force on Investment Policy; consultative member of the Investment Treaty Forum; editorial board member of the Journal of International Economic Law; Yearbook on International Investment Law and Policy, Journal of International Dispute Settlement and the Journal of World Investment and Trade and one of the General Editors of Hart Publishing Studies in International Trade and Investment Law. He is the author of Basic Legal Instruments for the Liberalisation of Trade: A Comparative Analysis of EC and WTO Law (Hart 2004) and co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of International Investment Law (OUP 2008).

There are a total of 38 chapters, with rich references to national and international cases, relevant legislation, bilateral and multilateral agreements, and pointers to further reading. The contributors are overwhelmingly academics, though there are a few legal practitioners as well. There is an assured place for this book a reference work, which means that it will find a ready home in many legal libraries around the world. The Commonwealth Lawyer