Originally from International Arbitration Law and Practice, Third Edition

PREVIEW

The third edition has changed and the work covers now not only commercial arbitration, but many of the various other types of arbitral proceedings.

Ten years having run since the second edition, the number of awards, judgments and legal commentary to be taken into account has grown significantly. The richness of this material is amazing.

This study has two purposes: Bearing in mind the two aphorisms, “One can’t see the forest for the trees,” which as many know means the larger picture is lost because of one’s too intense focus on the details, and “one can’t see the tree because of the forest,” which stresses the opposite problem, I propose another metaphor.

We can’t know a tree if we are unable to understand its roots.