Oxford University Press, USA
International Arbitration and Global Governance: Contending Theories and Evidence
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- Walter Mattli
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Paperback
- 9780198798675
- 9.1 X 6.1 X 0.6 inches
- 0.9 pounds
- Political Science > International Relations - General
- English
Secure TransactionBook Description
This book boldly steps away from this tradition of scholarship to reflect 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.
The book brings together leading scholars from law and the social sciences to assess and critically reflect on the significance and implications of international arbitration as a new locus of global private authority. The views predictably diverge. Some see the evolution of these private courts positively as a significant element of an emerging transnational private legal system that gradually evolves according to the needs of market actors without much state interference. Others fear that private courts allow transnational actors to circumvent state regulation and create an illegitimate judicial system that is driven by powerful transnational companies at the expense of collective public interests. Still others accept that these contrasting views serve as useful starting points of an analysis but are too simplistic to adequately understand the complex governance structures that international arbitration courts have been developing over the last two decades.
In sum, this book 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. This debate is generating fascinating new insights into such central topics as legitimacy, constitutional order and justice beyond classical nation state institutions.
Author Bio
I joined Oxford University in 2004 and was Tutorial Fellow in Politics and Professor of International Political Economy in the Department of Politics and International Relations until July 2020. From 1995 until 2004 I taught at Columbia University in New York where I was Associate Professor of International Political Economy and a member of the Institute of War and Peace Studies.
I received my undergraduate degree from the University of Geneva and my Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. Before beginning my graduate studies, I worked in international banking in New York.
I have held fellowships at the Wissenschaftskolleg (Institute for Advanced Studies) in Berlin, Princeton University and the European University Institute in Florence.
In 1995, I was awarded the Helen Dwight Reid Award of the American Political Science Association, in 2003 the JP Morgan International Prize in Finance Policy and Economics of the American Academy in Berlin, in 2006 a two-year British Academy Research Fellowship and in 2015 a British Academy/Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship. I am co-editor (with Liesbeth Hooghe and Gary Marks) of a new book series with Oxford University Press titled Transformations in Governance. I am a member of the Editorial Boards of the Review of International Political Economy and the European Journal of Political Research and also serve on the Executive Board of Regulation & Governance.
Publications
My publications include
- The Logic of Regional Integration: Europe and Beyond (Cambridge University Press, 1999);
- The Politics of Global Regulation (Princeton University Press, 2009, with Ngaire Woods, eds), awarded special recognition by the 2010 Levine Prize Committee of the International Political Science Association;
- The New Global Rulers: the Privatization of Regulation in the World Economy (Princeton University Press, 2011, with Tim Büthe), winner of the 2012 Best Book Award of the International Studies Association;
- Institutional Choice and Global Commerce (Cambridge University Press, 2013, with Joseph Jupille and Duncan Snidal);
- International Arbitration and Global Governance: Contending Theories and Evidence (Oxford University Press, 2014, with Thomas Dietz, eds);
- Global Algorithmic Capital Markets: High Frequency Trading, Dark Pools, and Regulatory Challenges (Oxford University Press, 2018, ed.);
- Darkness By Design (Princeton University Press, 2018);
- as well as articles on European legal integration, EU enlargement, comparative regional integration, international commercial dispute resolution, transatlantic regulatory cooperation, financial regulation, globalisation and international governance.
Source: St John's College Oxford
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