Introduction

While much has been written on the selection of arbitrators,[1] few attempts have been made to set out a strategy designed to assist or enable a party to obtain an optimal or good tribunal for its case under the principal international arbitration rules.[2] Most writings on the subject tend to describe the procedure for the selection of arbitrators (appointment of arbitrators, their number and qualifications, the requirement of independence and impartiality, challenge and replacement of arbitrators) in dispassionate and objective terms, leaving it to the parties and their counsel ...