International Arbitration: Its Legitimacy, Efficiency and Place within International Law (The Hague Academy Special Editions)

If the number of Academy activities devoted to international arbitration has increased significantly in recent decades, it is due to the growing importance that this mechanism has gained among peaceful means of resolving international disputes. In many fields, particularly in areas such as international business, investment and sports, arbitration has become the predominant mechanism, creating in some cases a sort of de facto quasi-exclusive jurisdiction.
Several of the Academy’s recent programs have opened with inaugural lectures specifically addressing international arbitration. This book brings together four of these lectures, originally delivered and published in French and now available in English in a single volume. As with all those invited to open the Academy’s programs, the level and prestige of the authors featured in this work are superlative.
The works offered by these distinguished lecturers reflect a diversity of perspectives, among the many that international arbitration allows today, and accurately summarize the Academy’s permanent interest in the evolution of international arbitration and how it relates to international law.

Diego P. Fernández Arroyo, Foreword
Dominique Hascher, The Role of International Law in the Supervision of Arbitral Awards
Jean-Michel Jacquet, Private International Law and International Commercial Arbitration
Gabrielle Kaufmann-Kohler, Independence and Impartiality of Judges and Arbitrators in Investor-State Disputes
Alexis Mourre, The Legitimacy of Arbitration

Dominique Hascher, born on 22 May 1956, in Neuilly-sur-Seine (France).
Secondary education at Lycée Henri IV (Paris), law studies at the Universities of Paris II and Harvard (Fulbright Scholar). Joined the French judicial service in 1978, seconded to the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce as General Counsel and Deputy Secretary General (1990-1998), Judge at the Court of Cassation in 2012, currently international judge at the Supreme Court of Singapore. President or member of ad hoc committees established under the Washington Convention of 18 March 1965 (ICSID). President of an international arbitral tribunal in Brussels (appointed by the co-arbitrators, judge at the International Court of Justice and professor of law). Appointing authority nominated by the Permanent Court of Arbitration in the case of Pey Casado v. Chile. Associate professor, University of Paris I (2001-2015); visiting professor, University College London (2005), University of Texas School of Law, Austin (2007). President of the Society of Comparative Legislation (2015-2019), member of the American Law Institute, of the Governing Board (Advisory Member) of the International Council Commercial Arbitration (ICCA), the International Arbitration Institute, the French committees on arbitration and private international law; Secretary General of the French branch of the International Law Association (1998-2006); member of the scientific committee of the Revue de l’arbitrage, editorial advisor to the Revue camerounaise de l’arbitrage. Knight of the National Order of the Legion of Honor (2005), the National Order of Merit (1998), Hon. Bencher of Gray’s Inn, London (2004).

Jean-Michel Jacquet, born on 17 November 1945 in Montbéliard, France.
Bachelor’s and Doctorate in Law from the University Robert-Schuman of Strasbourg; advanced studies diploma from the University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas; tenured professor of law faculties; seconded professor at Cheikh-Anta-Diop University in Dakar (1983-1990); professor at the University of Social Sciences of Toulouse, director of the University Center of Albi (1990-1994); professor at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Geneva), director of the Institute (2002-2004); honorary professor since 2012, teaching at MIDS (Master of International Dispute Settlement, Geneva); director of the Journal international (Clunet) from 2003 to 2018; delegate of France to the UNCITRAL Working Group from 1992 to 2021 (United Nations Commission on International Trade Law) since 1992; member of the French Committee of Private International Law; member of the French branch of the International Law Association.

Gabrielle Kaufmann-Kohler, born 2 November 1952 in Mulhouse, France.
Professor Emerita at the Law School of the University of Geneva, where she taught from 1993 to 2018, founded and directed the Geneva LL.M. in International Dispute Settlement (MIDS), a joint project of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies and the University of Geneva, headed the Law School’s Department of Private International Law and codirected the Center for International Dispute Settlement (CIDS), whose Board she currently chairs. She is also or has been a visiting professor at the National University of Singapore (from 2019), Sciences Po Paris (from 2020), Tsinghua University, Beijing (2019), Georgetown University (2019-2021) and MIDS Geneva (from 2018). She has taught private international law, then international arbitration law and directed research projects in the latter field.
Among other responsibilities in arbitration institutions and organizations, she is Honorary President of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA), of which she was President from 2018 to 2020; Honorary President of the Swiss Arbitration Association (ASA), which she chaired from 2001 to 2005; and cofounder of the Foundation for International Arbitration Advocacy (FIAA).

Alexis Mourre, born on 25 March 1963 in Suresnes.
Awarded a master’s degree in law from the University of Paris-X and a postgraduate degree in international trade law from the University of Paris-I. Member of the Paris Bar since January 1988.
As a founding partner of Mourre, Gutierrez, Chessa Arbitration since October 2021, he has acted as counsel to parties, sole arbitrator, co-arbitrator, chairman of the tribunal and expert in more than 300 international arbitration proceedings, both ad hoc and under the aegis of most arbitral institutions.
He set up his own firm in May 2015, having founded Castaldi Mourre et Associés in 1996. He was a member of the ICC International Court of Arbitration for twelve years, first as Vice-Chairman (2009-2015) and then as Chairman (1 July 2015-30 June 2021). He was also Vice-President of the ICC Institute of World Business Law from 2011 to 2015, Co-Chairman of the Arbitration Committee of the International Bar Association (2012-2013), a member of the LCIA Court (2012-2015) and of the Council of the Milan Chamber of Arbitration (2006-2014).
He was a member of the ICC France Board (2010-2015) and Chairman of the ICC France Competition Commission (2003-2009). He has authored numerous works on international business law, private international law and arbitration law. Founder and former editor-in-chief of Les Cahiers de l’Arbitrage – The Paris Journal of International Arbitration, one of the world’s leading arbitration journals.
Alexis Mourre is a lecturer at the University of Paris II and the Institut d’études politiques.