Introduction

I think one of the fascinating things about investment arbitration scenario, which isn't new of course, but the explosion in numbers of them, has had some extraordinary and unpredicted, effects. Some of them stem from the throwing together, if I can put it that way, of different types of lawyers who never even knew each other before, let alone work together and plan things together. I'm talking of course about the commercial lawyers - I suppose I would have to classify myself as a commercial lawyer by origin - the private international lawyers and the public international ...