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Drawing on a wide range of previously unpublished sources, this unique history of international commercial arbitration in the modern era identifies three periods in its development: the Age of Aspirations (c. 1780-1920), the Age of Institutionalization (1920s-1950s), and the Age of Autonomy (1950s-present). Mikaël Schinazi analyzes the key features of each period, arguing that the history of international commercial arbitration has oscillated between moments of renewal and anxiety. During periods of renewal, new approaches, instruments, and institutions were developed to carry international commercial arbitration forward. These developments were then reined in during periods of anxiety, for fear that international arbitration might be overstepping its bounds. The resulting tension between renewal and anxiety is a key thread running through the evolution of international commercial arbitration. This book fills a key gap in the scholarship for anyone interested in the fields of international arbitration, legal history, and international law

Drawing on a wide range of previously unpublished sources, this unique history of international commercial arbitration in the modern era identifies three periods in its development: the Age of Aspirations (c. 1780-1920), the Age of Institutionalization (1920s-1950s), and the Age of Autonomy (1950s-present). Mikaël Schinazi analyzes the key features of each period, arguing that the history of international commercial arbitration has oscillated between moments of renewal and anxiety. During periods of renewal, new approaches, instruments, and institutions were developed to carry international commercial arbitration forward. These developments were then reined in during periods of anxiety, for fear that international arbitration might be overstepping its bounds. The resulting tension between renewal and anxiety is a key thread running through the evolution of international commercial arbitration. This book fills a key gap in the scholarship for anyone interested in the fields of international arbitration, legal history, and international law.

"There is no one way of writing the modern history of international commercial arbitration, but rather a "radical pluralism" of historical methods and approaches, several of which will be used in this book. Schematically, one could focus on the history of events, the history of concepts, or the history of individual people (there are indeed many well-known, as well as less known but no less fascinating, figures in the modern history of international arbitration). When it comes to concepts, one could trace the history of the notion of lex mercatoria or that of the arbitral legal order, for example. With regard to events, one could explore narrow timescales, focusing, for example, on a few key events and explaining how they led to the present state of international commercial arbitration. This approach - which some might call histoire événementielle or event-based history, with its "brief, rapid, nervous fluctuations" - views history as closely tied to specific events. Applied to the study of international arbitration, it would focus on a few relevatory moments that led to the current state of affairs. For example, the genesis of the New York Convention was a seminal moment and turning point in the modern history of international commercial arbitration. Participants from a wide range of national, cultural, and legal backgrounds gave detailed thought to the role that individual states should play in the modern international arbitration compact. This event had broader implications for the modern history of international commercial arbitration"--