International Arbitration: Three Salient Problems (Hersch Lauterpacht Memorial Lectures)

The vitality or, alternatively, vitiation of the international arbitral process remains a pressing subject. The explosion of inter-State, investor-State, and international commercial arbitration in recent years magnifies the importance of the subject. This second edition combines the historical analysis of the first edition with a survey of the continued salience and contemporary developments for each of the three problems identified: (i) the severability of the arbitration agreement; (ii) denial of justice (and now other possible breaches of international law) by governmental negation of arbitration; and (iii) the authority of truncated international arbitral tribunals. The international arbitral process continues to be fortified against unilateral attempts to derail it and, to that end, this book will be a valuable guide for practitioners and scholars alike.

Stephen M. Schwebel has been a student and practitioner of international arbitration since 1954 when he was a member of Aramco's legal team in the Onassis Arbitration. He served as a judge of the International Court of Justice 1981–2000 and as Court president 1997–2000.

Luke Sobota is a founding partner of Three Crowns LLP, Washington DC, a firm dedicated to international arbitration. He has extensive experience in investor-State, commercial, and inter-State arbitrations. He is co-author of the monograph General Principles of Law and International Due Process (2017) and is a lecturer on law at Harvard Law School.

Ryan Manton is an Associate at Three Crowns LLP, Washington DC. He has appeared as counsel before a range of international tribunals in inter-State, investor-State and international commercial arbitrations and other disputes. He previously taught public international law at the University of Oxford, from where he also graduated with a D.Phil. in Law.