Introduction by the Editors International Commercial Courts: The Future of Transnational Adjudication – An Introduction Georgios Dimitropoulos and Stavros Brekoulakis; Part I. A Contextual Perspective to International Commercial Courts: 1. The role of international commercial courts in commercial dispute resolution Christopher Grout; 2. International commercial courts: Possible problematic social externalities of a dispute resolution product with good market potential Thomas Schultz; 3. Transnational adjudication and the court of justice of the European union Christopher Vajda; 4. Lessons for international commercial courts from the experience of the proliferation of international criminal tribunals Ilias Bantekas; Part II. Jurisdiction, Applicable Law and Enforcement of Judgments: 5. A comparative perspective to international commercial courts: Jurisdiction, applicable law and enforcement of judgments Janet Walker; 6. Jurisdiction and choice of court clauses in favour of international commercial courts Eva Lein; 7. The battle for jurisdiction through jurisdictional requirements: Comparing between the Chinese international commercial courts, the Singapore international commercial court and the commercial court of England and wales Man Yip; 8. Harmonization of commercial law based on the common law: The role of international commercial courts Mateja Durovic; 9. Applicable laws in the international commercial courts of the Gulf Faris Elias Nasrallah; Part III. Procedure, Function, Organization: 10. The design of international commercial courts: From organizational hybridity to functional interoperability Georgios Dimitropoulos; 11. Internationalizing domestic courts in Europe: A comparative analysis on procedure, function, organization Marieke Witkamp; 12. The legitimacy and ethics of international commercial court judges Catherine A. Rogers; 13. Counsel ethics in transnational lawyering: The case of international commercial courts Zachary R. Calo; 14. The use of technology at international commercial courts Pietro Ortolani; Part IV. The Interplay between International Commercial Courts and other Dispute Resolution Fora: 15. The interplay between international commercial courts and ordinary courts Julian Bailey; 16. Private autonomy in international commercial dispute resolution: International commercial arbitration and international commercial courts Michael Patchett-Joyce; 17. Procedure before international commercial courts and ordinary courts: A comparative perspective Georgia Antonopoulou; Part V. International Commercial Courts and Global Governance: 18. Hybridity in international adjudication: How international are international commercial courts? Salvatore Caserta and Mikael Rask Madsen; 19. The China international commercial court: Architecture, pitfalls and promises Julien Chaisse; 20. The emergence of international commercial courts and dispute resolution centres in frontier markets: A perspective from Kazakhstan The Rt. Hon. The Lord Woolf CH and Christopher Campbell-Holt; 21. Brexit and the competition of dispute resolution Fora in Europe: Whither the rush to English courts post withdrawal? Geert Van Calster; 22. International commercial courts, dispute resolution, and the rule of law Susan L. Karamanian.