Introduction

As a non-lawyer, I am interested in the analysis of international disputes and dispute resolving procedures - not primarily in legal provisions and technical issues but in linguistic, psychological and sociological aspects. As far as the outcomes of my analysis are of value for a better understanding of such disputes and dispute resolving processes, is finally to be decided by the legal experts themselves. In this article, I concentrate on some aspects of the concept of bias as it is used in regulations on (commercial) arbitration. My starting point is the English Legal ...