Diversity in Arbitration in Europe: Insights From a Large Scale Empirical Study
Article from: TDM 4 (2015), in Dealing with Diversity in International Arbitration
Introduction
While issues of gender and ethnic diversity have become prominent in all areas of law, there is reason to believe that the insular nature of the arbitration community, combined with the importance of personal connections to receiving career opportunities in arbitration will make diversity a particularly complex matter in arbitration as a field of professional practice. That is, while there is no evidence that arbitration practitioners are as a group any more likely to discriminate on the basis of ethnicity or gender than other legal professionals, fields in which career ...