Rethinking international commercial arbitration : towards default arbitration / Gilles Cuniberti, Professor of Comparative and Private International Law, University of Luxembourg.

Includes bibliographical references (page 236) and index.

The most suitable mode of dispute resolution -- Foreign investment arbitration -- Domain name arbitration -- The French experience --The legitimacy of private international adjudication -- The public functions of courts -- European law -- The Constitution of the United States -- The proposed model -- Variant 1 : arbitration as forum conveniens -- Variant 2 : ending the commercial judicial subsidy -- Indirect paths -- Direct paths.

"[This book rethinks] the consensual foundation of arbitration and argues that it should become the default mode of resolution in international commercial disputes. The book first discusses the most important arguments against this proposal and responds to them. In particular, it addresses the issue of the legitimacy of arbitrators and the compatibility of the idea with guarantees afforded by European human rights law and US constitutional law. The book then presents several models of non-consensual arbitration that could be implemented to afford neutral adjudication in disputes between parties originating from different jurisdictions' to offer an additional alternative forum in the doctrine of forum non conveniens or to save judicial costs."-- Back cover.