Summary

Arbitrator impartiality is an essential safeguard for the reliability and efficiency of arbitration. This paper aims to explore the concept of arbitrator impartiality in a maritime arbitration context. One of the principal reasons to arbitrate is the ability to choose specialized arbitrators. In the context of impartiality, the choice is a favored advantage as much as a consequential challenge: it is more likely than not that specialized arbitrators in the relatively narrow maritime arbitration sector have some type of relationship with each other and with the parties. After an ...