International Commercial Courts: The Future of Transnational Adjudication [Hardcover]

The book presents international commercial courts from a comparative perspective and highlights their role in transnational adjudication.This book is on international commercial courts, a new institution of international adjudication. Given its comparative perspective the book is of value to readers across various disciplines, including international adjudication, international commercial and investment arbitration, judicial studies, comparative law and global governance studies.This book is on international commercial courts, a new institution of international adjudication. Given its comparative perspective the book is of value to readers across various disciplines, including international adjudication, international commercial and investment arbitration, judicial studies, comparative law and global governance studies.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 EurlƒÈ