International Arbitration and Global Governance is the first book offering a wide-ranging and up-to-date analytical overview of arguments in a vigorous nascent interdisciplinary debate about international arbitration courts and their exercise of private governance power.

• 1: Walter Mattli and Thomas Dietz: Mapping and Assessing the Rise of International Commercial Arbitration in the Globalization Era: An Introduction


• 2: Alec Stone Sweet and Florian Grisel: The Evolution of International Arbitration: Delegation, Judicialization, Governance


• 3: Ralf Michaels: Roles and Role Perceptions of International Arbitrators


• 4: Joshua Karton: International Arbitration Culture and Global Governance


• 5: Moritz Renner: Private Justice, Public Policy: The Constitutionalisation of International Commercial Arbitration


• 6: Claire Cutler: International Commercial Arbitration, Transnational Governance, and the New Constitutionalism


• 7: Thomas Dietz: Does International Commercial Arbitration Provide Efficient Contract Enforcement Institutions for Global Commerce?


• 8: Thomas Hale: What is the Effect of Commercial Arbitration on Trade?


• 9: Horatia Muir Watt: The Contested Legitimacy of Investment Arbitration and the Human Rights Ordeal: the Missing Link

Walter Mattli joined Oxford University in 2004 and previously taught at Columbia University. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1994. His publications include The Logic of Regional Integration: Europe and Beyond (1999), The Politics of Global Regulation (2009 co-edited with N. Woods), The New Global Rulers: The Privatization of Regulation in the World Economy awarded the 2012 Best Book Award of the International Studies Association (2011, co-authored with T. Büthe), Institutional Choice and Global Commerce (2013, co-authored with J. Jupille & D. Snidal) as well as articles on European legal integration, EU enlargement, comparative regional integration, international commercial dispute resolution, transatlantic regulatory cooperation, and globalization and international governance. He is Professor of International Political Economy in the Department of Politics and International Relations at Oxford University and Fellow of St. John's College, Oxford.
Thomas Dietz has spent two years as postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford Law Faculty and Wolfson College. He is Assistant Professor in Politics and Law at the University of Muenster, Germany.