Chin Leng Lim is Choh-Ming Li Professor of Law at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Honorary Senior Fellow at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, and Visiting Professor at King's College, London. He practises at Keating Chambers, London.

• Part I. The history, doctrines and sociology of the growth of transnational justice: 1. Development of the principal forms from antiquity to arbitromania C.L. Lim; 2. Dealing in virtue: A perspective from almost 25 years later Bryant G. Garth; Part II. International commercial arbitration as a transnational justice system: 3. Arbitration and comparative law Gary F. Bell; 4. Which law applies? A role for private international law? Adrian Briggs; 5. The role of the lex arbitri Giuditta Cordero-Moss; 6. Is arbitration autonomous? Ralf Michaels; 7. The future of international commercial arbitration George Bermann; Part III. Investor-state arbitration: 8. Rise of a discipline Jan Paulsson; 9. Consent to arbitration in foreign investment arbitration M. Sornarajah; 10. The applicable law in international investment arbitration Andrea Bjorklund and Lukas Vanhonnaeker; 11. The historical contribution of the world bank Olufemi Elias and Siobhan McInerney-Lankford; 12. ICSID today Meg Kinnear and Daniela Argüello; 13. The future for international investment arbitration Michael Reisman; Part IV. Inter-state arbitration and the pursuit of peace: 14. Arbitration and world peace Christopher Greenwood; 15. Inter-state arbitration: current issues and contemporary challenges Maurice Mendelson; 16. The permanent court of arbitration: from 1899 to the present Garth Schofield; Part V. Systemic, trans-substantive and new issues: 17. Regulating arbitrators and rules on professional responsibility Christopher K. Tahbaz and Natalie L. Reid; 18. Dealing with corruption Florian Haugeneder; 19. The “problem” of costs in arbitration: controlling, allocating and funding costs Matthew Hodgson and Jae Hee Suh; 20. Regression, a conclusion C. L. Lim.

'[The volume] provides international arbitration enthusiasts with an indispensable companion to understand its reliefs, and grasp its substance. … Its quality, evident from reading its content, is just as obvious to the simple consultation of the list of its authors, each of whom has helped to shape the very essence of international arbitration in recent decades … readers will be able to enrich their thinking on arbitrage and will also have at their disposal a series of useful tools for understanding the discipline as a whole.' Pierre Nosewicz, Revue Critique de Droit International Privé