Diversity in International Arbitration: Why it Matters and How to Sustain It

This book explores the increasing attention paid to the need for greater diversity in the international arbitration ecosystem, investigating how to develop an international arbitral order that is tolerant and promotes diversity. It offers a wide range of viewpoints from a diverse group of authors and discusses best practices and innovative initiatives for enhancing diversity.

Format: Hardback
Length: 312 pages
Publication date: 01 November 2022
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd

After decades of focus on harmonization, which for too many represents no more than Western legal dominance and a largely homogeneous arbitration practitioner community, this groundbreaking book explores the increasing attention being paid to the need for greater diversity in the international arbitration ecosystem. It examines diversity in all its forms, investigating how best to develop an international arbitral order that is not just tolerant of diversity but that sustains and promotes diversity in concert with harmonized practices. Offering a wide range of viewpoints from a diverse and inclusive group of authors, Diversity in International Arbitration is a comprehensive and insightful resource on a controversial, fast-moving subject.

Chapters present arguments from practitioner, academic, institutional, and governmental perspectives that identify the underlying issues and address the various ways in which the goal of diversity, whether demographic, legal, cultural, professional, linguistic, or philosophical, can be reached.

This book's analysis of the contemporary state of diversity in international arbitration will be a crucial read for researchers in the field. Practitioners and policy makers will also find its discussion of best practices and innovative initiatives for enhancing diversity to be invaluable.

Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781803920030