Considers the vitality of the international arbitral process through an updated examination of three salient problems.

Part I. The Severability of the Arbitration Agreement: Part II. Denial of Justice, and Other Breaches of International Law, by Governmental Negation of Arbitration: Part III. The Authority of Truncated International Arbitral Tribunals.

Stephen M. Schwebel has been a student and practitioner of international arbitration since 1954 when he was a member of Aramco's legal team in the Onassis Arbitration. He served as a judge of the International Court of Justice 1981-2000 and as Court president 1997-2000.