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, Full Professor of Comparative Law, Department of Asian and North African Studies,Ca' Foscari University, Italy and Joshua Karton, Full Professor and Associate Dean, Faculty of Law, Queen’s University, Canada

‘Ali, Balcerzak, Colombo, and Karton have edited a unique tour-de-force of diversity issues ranging from personal identity to legal culture to environmental impact. The editors have compiled an impressive anthology of approaches to fostering diversity from a “who's who” of authors making an impact on the ground already in this space. This is a must-read book for any law firm lawyers, corporate counsel, organizational leaders, arbitration institution administrators, and concerned arbitrators looking for ways to increase the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) savviness of their organizations and independent practices.’

• Contents:PART I THEORETICAL INTRODUCTION1 Introduction: reaching sustainable diversity ininternational arbitration 2Giorgio Fabio Colombo, Shahla F. Ali, Filip Balcerzak,Joshua Karton2 Diversity in four dimensions 6Joshua Karton3 Fluidity of culture: convergence and informed divergencein cross-border arbitration 21Shahla F. AliPART II DIVERSITY IN THE ARBITRAL COMMUNITY4 Diversity in investment arbitration: balancing individualand community legitimacy 33Fernando Dias Simões5 Gender, race, or both? The need for greater considerationof intersectionality in international arbitration 48Kabir A.N. Duggal and Rekha Rangachari6 Diversifying the dominant demographics in internationalarbitration – the how, the why and the (maybe) solution 66D’Andra A. Johnson and Theominique D. Nottage7 Sustainable diversity in international arbitration: the caseof ad hoc, maritime, and commodities trade arbitration 83Eva Litina8 Developing diversity within diversity discourse:remembering non-lawyers in arbitration 101Luke Nottage, Nobumichi Teramura and James Tanna9 CETA – where are the women? Diffusing thethought-terminating clichés that impeded diversity 119Katherine Simpson and Anthony Marcum10 Boosting diversity in international arbitration: lessonsfrom and for China? 135Monika Prusinowska11 Judicial capacity-building and sustainable diversity underthe Model Law 150Anselmo ReyesPART III DIVERSITY IN CULTURES AND STYLES OFARBITRATION12 Arbitration and the diversity of constitutional cultures 168Victor Ferreres Comella13 Diversity of med-arb in international arbitration 182Weixia Gu14 I say discovery, you say disclosure. Evidence ininternational arbitration 198Alyssa S. King15 Linguistic diversity in international investment arbitration 213Ksenia Polonskaya16 Challenging the arbitrariness perception of ex aequo etbono to (re-)discover procedural diversity 229Nobumichi TeramuraPART IV “SUSTAINABLE” ARBITRATION –ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES17 The role of international arbitration in resolving climatechange related disputes: selected prospects and issues 243Konrad J. Czech and Bartosz Soloch18 Transparency in international arbitration as a catalyst tocombat climate change: is it time to embrace democratisedaccess to data in climate change related disputes? 258Caroline Deves and Piotr Wilinski19 Arbitration and climate change: sustainable and diversepolicy and practice 276Lucy GreenwoodIndex 289