On Arbitration

Introduction Part I: Learning from the Past 1: The Historical Keystone to International Arbitration, The Party-Appointed Arbitrator-From Miami to Geneva 2: Investor-State Disputes and The Development of International Law, Arbitral Lessons from the Private Correspondence of Queen Victoria and Lenin 3: Inter-State Arbitration 4: 1922: The Birth of the ICC Arbitration Clause and the Anglo-Soviet Urquhart Concession's Demise 5: The 1921-1923 North Sakhalin Concession Agreement: The 1925 Court Decisions Between the US Company Sinclair Exploration and the Soviet Government 6: Lloyd George, Lenin and Cannibals: The Harriman Arbitration 7: The Lena Goldfields Arbitration: The Historical Roots of Three Ideas 8: The Tetiuhe Mining Concession: 1924-1932: a Swiss-Russian Story (Where the Arbitral Dog Did Not Bark), 9: Two Arbitral Butterflies: Bramwell and David Part II: The International Arbitral Process 10: The 'Y2K Problem' and Arbitration: The Answer to the Myth 11: The Lawyer's Duty to Arbitrate in Good Faith 12: The Natural Limits to the Truncated Tribunal: The German Case of Soviet Eggs and the Dutch Abduction of the Indonesian Arbitrator 13: Issue Estoppel, Reasons for Awards and Transnational Arbitration 14: The Need for Cross-border Enforcement of Interim Measures Ordered by a State Court in Support of the International Arbitral Process 15: The Transparency of International Arbitration: Process and Substance 16: Free Spirits - The Search for 'International' Arbitration 17: The Role of Users 18: From Florence to London via Moscow and New Delhi: How and Why Arbitral Ideas Migrate 19: Jurisdiction, Admissibility and Choice of Law in International Arbitration Part III: Key Questions for all Users of International Arbitration 20: Whose Arbitration is it Anyway: The Parties or the Arbitration Tribunal - An Interesting Question? 21: Is There Any Need for a Code of Ethics for International Commercial Arbitrators? 22: Still More on Arbitral Deliberations 23: Why Bother? And Why It Matters 24: The Importance of a Party Treating as Independent its Independent Arbitrator 25: Is There a Need to Revise the New York Convention? 26: Who Are the Arbitrators? 27: Arbitrators And Arbitral Institutions: Legal Risks For Product Liability? 28: What Matters - about Arbitration 29: Lessons for the Future from the Past: Individual Hedgehogs and Institutional Foxes