The Culture of International Arbitration

ISBN-13: 9780199973927 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017

Won L. Kidane

Opis

This book offers an in-depth study of the role of culture in modern day arbitral proceedings. It contains a detailed analysis of how cultural miscommunication affects the accuracy, efficiency, fairness, and legitimacy in both commercial and investment arbitration when the arbitrators and the parties, their counsel and witnesses come from diverse legal traditions and cultures. The book provides a comprehensive definition of culture, and methodically documents andexamines the epistemology of determining facts in various legal traditions and how the mixing of traditions influences the outcome.

Recenzje

Kidane's book offers a multidimensional approach to (non)diversity in arbitration, from both theoretical and practical angles.

O autorze

Won L. Kidane is a Fulbright Scholar and a tenured Associate Professor of Law at the Seattle University School of Law, where he teaches international arbitration and litigation among other courses. He is the author of China-Africa Dispute Settlement (2011) and co-author of Litigating War: Mass Civil Injury and the Eritrea-Ethiopia Claims Commission (With Sean D. Murphy and Thomas R. Snider, OUP 2014). He has written dozens of articles published in law reviews and leading international law journals including Cornell, University of Pennsylvania, Vanderbilt, Emory, Fordham, and Wisconsin. Before becoming a professor at Seattle University Law School, he practiced as an arbitration attorney at DLA Piper and at Hunton & Williams, LLP in Washington, D.C. He is currently a partner at the Addis Law Group, LLP, a Washington D.C. based boutique international arbitration firm.