The American Influence on International Commercial Arbitration: Doctrinal Developments and Discovery Methods.

• Date: 01 January 2021
• Author: Logue, Thomas

The American Influence on International Commercial Arbitration: Doctrinal Developments and Discovery Methods

If national economies ever were independent of international markets, they certainly are not now. At the speed of the internet, economic globalization has moved the world toward a single, worldwide market for goods, services, and capital. What has not kept pace is the development of commensurate international legal norms needed to make such a near-universal market work.

Bridging the gap--more accurately the chasm--between the monolithic, transnational economic market on which all nations now depend and our fragmented, nation-based legal order is the daunting task of international commercial arbitration.

In the second edition of his seminal book, Pedro Martinez-Fraga offers his vision of how the law in this field would benefit from certain aspects of American...