International arbitration and global governance : contending theories and evidence / edited by Walter Mattli and Thomas Dietz.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Mapping and addressing the rise of international commercial arbitration in the globalization era : an introduction / Walter Mattli and Thomas Dietz -- The evolution of international arbitration : delegation, judicialization, governance / Alec Stone Sweet and Florian Grisel -- Roles and role perceptions of international arbitrators / Ralf Michaels -- International arbitration culture and global governance / Joshua Karton -- Private justice, public policy : the constitutionalization of international commercial arbitration / Moritz Renner -- International commercial arbitration, transnational governance, and the new constitutionalism / A. Claire Cutler -- Does international commercial arbitration provide efficient contract enforcement institutions for international trade? / Thomas Dietz -- What is the effect of commercial arbitration on trade? / Thomas Hale -- The contested legitimacy of investment arbitration and the human rights ordeal : the missing link / Horatia Muir Watt.

This book reflects analytically on international arbitration as a form of global governance. It thus contributes to a rapidly growing literature that describes the profound economic, legal, and political transformation in which key governance functions are increasingly exercised by a new constellation that include actors other than national public authorities. It offers a wide-ranging and up-to-date analytical overview of arguments in a vigorous nascent interdisciplinary debate about arbitration courts and their exercise of private governance power in the transnational realm.