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Annotation The agreement of disputing parties to each make a unilateral appointment of an arbitrator is among the most distinctive features of arbitral practice. A detailed examination, long overdue, of how this feature affects the actual process of arbitration is presented in this book. The study includes a historical analysis of unilateral nominations, a critical assessment of how the unilateral appointments system currently works and an empirical study of challenges of arbitrators. The author's critical assessment addresses several issues including:- limits to the right of the parties to make unilateral appointments;- the principle of equality of the parties in the constitution of the arbitral tribunal;- arbitrators' duty to be impartial and independent;- specific problems of bias in tribunals with party-appointed members;- the question of whether a different standard of impartiality and independence in party-appointed arbitrators makes any sense;- the presumption that party-appointed arbitrators can do things that presiding arbitrators cannot; and- the question of whether it is worth keeping the system of unilateral appointments as the default method for the constitution of mul

Author

Alfonso Gomez-Acebo, Alfonso Gómez-Acebo, Gomez-Acebo Alfonso

Publisher

Kluwer Law International B. V.

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9789041166715

Subjects

Law