Diversity in International Arbitration

Edited by Shahla F. Ali, Professor and Associate Dean (International) and Director, Program in Arbitration and Dispute Resolution, Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Filip Balcerzak, Associate Professor (Research), Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland, Giorgio Fabio Colombo, Professor, Graduate School of Law, Nagoya University, Japan and Joshua Karton, Associate Professor and Associate Dean, Faculty of Law, Queen’s University, Canada

Contents:

PART I THEORETICAL INTRODUCTION
1 Introduction: reaching sustainable diversity in
international arbitration 2
Giorgio Fabio Colombo, Shahla F. Ali, Filip Balcerzak,
Joshua Karton
2 Diversity in four dimensions 6
Joshua Karton
3 Fluidity of culture: convergence and informed divergence
in cross-border arbitration 21
Shahla F. Ali

PART II DIVERSITY IN THE ARBITRAL COMMUNITY
4 Diversity in investment arbitration: balancing individual
and community legitimacy 33
Fernando Dias Simões
5 Gender, race, or both? The need for greater consideration
of intersectionality in international arbitration 48
Kabir A.N. Duggal and Rekha Rangachari
6 Diversifying the dominant demographics in international
arbitration – the how, the why and the (maybe) solution 66
D’Andra A. Johnson and Theominique D. Nottage
7 Sustainable diversity in international arbitration: the case
of ad hoc, maritime, and commodities trade arbitration 83
Eva Litina
8 Developing diversity within diversity discourse:
remembering non-lawyers in arbitration 101
Luke Nottage, Nobumichi Teramura and James Tanna
9 CETA – where are the women? Diffusing the
thought-terminating clichés that impeded diversity 119
Katherine Simpson and Anthony Marcum
10 Boosting diversity in international arbitration: lessons
from and for China? 135
Monika Prusinowska
11 Judicial capacity-building and sustainable diversity under
the Model Law 150
Anselmo Reyes

PART III DIVERSITY IN CULTURES AND STYLES OF
ARBITRATION
12 Arbitration and the diversity of constitutional cultures 168
Victor Ferreres Comella
13 Diversity of med-arb in international arbitration 182
Weixia Gu
14 I say discovery, you say disclosure. Evidence in
international arbitration 198
Alyssa S. King
15 Linguistic diversity in international investment arbitration 213
Ksenia Polonskaya
16 Challenging the arbitrariness perception of ex aequo et
bono to (re-)discover procedural diversity 229
Nobumichi Teramura

PART IV “SUSTAINABLE” ARBITRATION –
ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
17 The role of international arbitration in resolving climate
change related disputes: selected prospects and issues 243
Konrad J. Czech and Bartosz Soloch
18 Transparency in international arbitration as a catalyst to
combat climate change: is it time to embrace democratised
access to data in climate change related disputes? 258
Caroline Deves and Piotr Wilinski
19 Arbitration and climate change: sustainable and diverse
policy and practice 276
Lucy Greenwood

Index 289