Introduction

In addition to Bart's comments[1], one should not forget that the ICC and other similar institutions deal with private commercial arbitration and that they trade in services, while ICSID deals with investor-State arbitration and provides a public service. I have found that many people, practitioners and arbitrators alike, tend to equate them - if not confuse them altogether - but there are of course many differences (something which could open up a discussion of its own). For the present purposes, I would like to illustrate why arbitrators' fees are different by ...