International Arbitration has made great advances in the past several decades in becoming the mechanism of choice to resolve international disputes. Give me any court system in the world and nothing approaches the dynamic pragmatism of international arbitration. The relative costs, speed and predictability of this dispute resolution regime are unbeatable.

While international arbitration does it best to bridge the cultural, legal and even ideological gap among parties from opposite sides of the globe, there’s still a lot of work to be done to address conflicting national ethical rules.

At least that’s the argument raised in a compelling book chapter I just read, The Ethics of Advocacy in International Arbitration by Catherine A. Rogers, Professor of Law at Penn State University, & Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milan, Italy.

via International Arbitration: The Wild West of Ethics? : International Business Law Advisor.