Thursday, December 23, 2021

Lim: The Cambridge Companion to International Arbitration

C.L. Lim
(Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong) has published The Cambridge Companion to International Arbitration (Cambridge Univ. Press 2021). The table of contents is here. Here's the abstract:
This Cambridge Companion explores the main senses of the term 'international arbitration'; including the arbitration of private commercial disputes, disputes between a State and a foreign investor, disputes between States and also between a State and its parts. It treats these various forms as being inter-related, if not always conceptually, then as a matter of history, rather than as collective victims of imprecise language. The book touches not only on current debates but also more foundational aspects, such as the tension between party autonomy and State authority, and the pacifist roots of modern international arbitration. Thus, it aims to offer a concise survey of the history, the main issues as well as the latest developments in a single, handy volume.