Evolution of International Arbitration - Judicialization, Governance, Legitimacy

This book charts and assesses the extent to which the major arbitration houses, including the International Chamber of Commerce and the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes, are evolving governance functions that would normally be associated with state courts.

List of contents

• 1: Judicialization and Arbitral Governance


• 2: The Evolution of the Arbitral Order


• 3: Procedures and Hierarchy


• 4: Precedent and Appeal


• 5: Balancing and the Public Interest


• 6: Legitimacy and Reform

About the author

Professor Alec Stone Sweet is Saw Swee Hock Centennial Professor of Law, National University of Singapore, and Senior Fellow, Orville H. Schell Center for International Human Rights, Yale Law School. He is the author of The Birth of Judicial Politics in France, Governing with Judges: Constitutional Politics in Europe, On Law, Politics, and Judicialization, and The Judicial Construction of Europe, and the co-editor of European Integration and Supranational Governance,The Institutionalization of Europe, and A Europe of Rights: The Impact of the European Convention on Human Rights on National Legal Systems, all published by Oxford University Press.

Dr Florian Grisel is a Research Fellow at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique and a Senior Lecturer in Transnational Law at King's College London. He is a graduate of Sciences po Paris, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Columbia University and Yale Law School. He has also gained extensive practice in international arbitration as an attorney based in Geneva and Paris.

Summary

This book charts and assesses the extent to which the major arbitration houses, including the International Chamber of Commerce and the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes, are evolving governance functions that would normally be associated with state courts.

Additional text

The innovative theory of judicialization set forth in the book, and the thorough data collection used to illustrate and complement the analysis, are valuable contributions to the study of international arbitration. This book will provide scholars, practitioners, law students and neophytes with a tremendous compilation of materials and analytic research to better apprehend not only the evolution of international arbitration, but also to understand arbitration as an autonomous legal order as we know it today.

Product details

• Authors: Florian Grisel, Florian (Senior Lecturer in Transnational Law Grisel, Grisel Florian, Alec Stone Sweet, Alec (Saw Swee Hock Centennial Profes Stone Sweet, Alec (Saw Swee Hock Centennial Professor of Law Stone Sweet, Alec Grisel Stone Sweet, Stone Sweet Alec
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.02.2017
• EAN: 9780198739722
• ISBN: 978-0-19-873972-2
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, LAW / Courts, LAW / International, LAW / Arbitration, Negotiation, Mediation, LAW / Alternative Dispute Resolution, Political science & theory, International Arbitration, Political science and theory, Arbitration, mediation & alternative dispute resolution, Arbitration, mediation and alternative dispute resolution, International law: arbitration, International law: courts and procedures, International courts & procedures