Title: The French Law of Arbitration by Jean Robert and Thomas E. Carbonneau
Abstract:A Swiss-American Perspective of a Franco-American Treatise Gallic arbitration law holds a special fascination for the student of international commercial dispute resolution, whether scholar or practit...A Swiss-American Perspective of a Franco-American Treatise Gallic arbitration law holds a special fascination for the student of international commercial dispute resolution, whether scholar or practitioner, connoisseur or novice. France's popularity as an arbitration situs may explain some of this interest.1 However, the deeper intellectual significance of the subject probably lies in the historical richness of the French judicial and legislative elaboration of a special status for international commercial arbitration. The development of French arbitration law represents a paradigm of the modern trend toward ‘delocalised’ procedure,2 in which arbitral autonomy is restricted by only a bare minimum of local procedural imperatives. The French Law of Arbitration is a first-rate adaptation of Jean Robert's classic treatise on French arbitration law, first published in 1937, and now in its fifth edition.3 But it is much more. The authors' guide to the interaction of judge and arbitrator in France provides...Read More