International Arbitration

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.

• Part I. The Severability of the Arbitration Agreement: Part II. Denial of Justice, and Other Breaches of International Law, by Governmental Negation of Arbitration: Part III. The Authority of Truncated International Arbitral Tribunals.

'It has been more than thirty years since Judge Schwebel - one of the most prominent, if not the most prominent, living scholars and practitioner in the field of public international law - published the first edition of his seminal work International Arbitration: Three Salient Problems. Since then, international arbitration has gained tremendous ground and its popularity continues to grow. Yet the problems that existed then persist today. In large part, the answers to those problems lie in the basic tenets and the foundational principles of arbitration, of which the second edition of the book reminds us. The review and analysis of those contemporary issues of international arbitration through the prism of decades of evolution and case law makes the second edition of Judge Schwebel's book a required 'night-table' reading for scholars and practitioners.' Stanimir A. Alexandrov, Principal at Stanimir A. Alexandrov PLLC