The book offers a comprehensive analysis of the role, importance and place of international commercial courts in the field of international adjudication from a comparative perspective. In a time where scholarly and academic debates revolve around the issues of the role of law in the post-globalization era, the new international commercial courts seem to be in the position to bridge concerns regarding diminished sovereignty, on the one hand, and the necessity of globalizing dispute resolution, on the other. International commercial courts thus present themselves as the paradigm for the future of adjudication.

Introduction by the Editors International Commercial Courts: The Future of Transnational Adjudication - An Introduction Georgios Dimitropoulos and Stavros Brekoulakis; Part I. A Contextual Perspective to International Commercial Courts: 1. The role of international commercial courts in commercial dispute resolution Christopher Grout; 2. International commercial courts: Possible problematic social externalities of a dispute resolution product with good market potential Thomas Schultz; 3. Transnational adjudication and the court of justice of the European union Christopher Vajda; 4. Lessons for international commercial courts from the experience of the proliferation of international criminal tribunals Ilias Bantekas; Part II. Jurisdiction, Applicable Law and Enforcement of Judgments: 5. A comparative perspective to international commercial courts: Jurisdiction, applicable law and enforcement of judgments Janet Walker; 6. Jurisdiction and choice of court clauses in favour of international commercial courts Eva Lein; 7. The battle for jurisdiction through jurisdictional requirements: Comparing between the Chinese international commercial courts, the Singapore international commercial court and the commercial court of England and wales Man Yip; 8. Harmonization of commercial law based on the common law: The role of international commercial courts Mateja Durovic; 9. Applicable laws in the international commercial courts of the Gulf Faris Elias Nasrallah; Part III. Procedure, Function, Organization: 10. The design of international commercial courts: From organizational hybridity to functional interoperability Georgios Dimitropoulos; 11. Internationalizing domestic courts in Europe: A comparative analysis on procedure, function, organization Marieke Witkamp; 12. The legitimacy and ethics of international commercial court judges Catherine A. Rogers; 13. Counsel ethics in transnational lawyering: The case of international commercial courts Zachary R. Calo; 14. The use of technology at international commercial courts Pietro Ortolani; Part IV. The Interplay between International Commercial Courts and other Dispute Resolution Fora: 15. The interplay between international commercial courts and ordinary courts Julian Bailey; 16. Private autonomy in international commercial dispute resolution: International commercial arbitration and international commercial courts Michael Patchett-Joyce; 17. Procedure before international commercial courts and ordinary courts: A comparative perspective Georgia Antonopoulou; Part V. International Commercial Courts and Global Governance: 18. Hybridity in international adjudication: How international are international commercial courts? Salvatore Caserta and Mikael Rask Madsen; 19. The China international commercial court: Architecture, pitfalls and promises Julien Chaisse; 20. The emergence of international commercial courts and dispute resolution centres in frontier markets: A perspective from Kazakhstan The Rt. Hon. The Lord Woolf CH and Christopher Campbell-Holt; 21. Brexit and the competition of dispute resolution Fora in Europe: Whither the rush to English courts post withdrawal? Geert Van Calster; 22. International commercial courts, dispute resolution, and the rule of law Susan L. Karamanian.