Ethics in international arbitration /
Catherine A. Rogers, Professor of Law and Paul & Marjorie Price Faculty Scholar, Penn State Law, Professor of Ethics, Regulation & the Rule of Law, Co-Director of the Institute for Ethics & Regulation Queen Mary, University of London.
- xxii, 386 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- From an invisible college to an ethical No-Man's Land -- Arbitrators, barbers, and taxidermists -- Attorneys, barbarians, and guerrillas -- Experts, partisans, and hired guns -- Gamblers, loan sharks, and third-party funders -- Chanticleer, the fox and self-regualtion -- Ariadne's thread and the functional thesis -- Herodotian myths and the impartiality of arbitrators -- Duck-rabbits, a panel of monkeys, and the status of international arbitrators -- Castles in the air and the future of ethics in international arbitration.
Although international arbitration is a remarkably resilient institution, many unresolved and largely unacknowledged ethical quandaries lurk below the surface. This text provides a framework for developing much-needed formal ethical rules and a reliable enforcement regime in the international arbitration system --