'The book is not just a rich historical exposition - meticulously researched, cogently presented and elegantly written - but a clear-eyed assessment of deep and recurring issues fundamental to international arbitration.' Jeremy Sharpe, ICSID Review - Foreign Investment Law Journal (2023)
1. General introduction; 2. Introduction to the Age of Aspirations; 3. Genealogy of international commercial arbitration; 4. The arbitration clause saga in French law and the emergence of a special regime for international commercial arbitration; 5. Introduction to the Age of Institutionalization; 6. The construction of a coherent framework for international commercial arbitration; 7. The development of the ICC arbitration system; 8. Introduction to the Age of Autonomy; 9. Lex Mercatoria and the birth of the French school of international arbitration; 10. The second generation of the French school of international arbitration and the quarrel over the arbitral legal order; 11. General conclusion; Bibliography; Index.