Shahla Ali et al on Introduction: Reaching Sustainable Diversity in International Arbitration (new book chapter)

"Introduction: reaching sustainable diversity in international arbitration"
Giorgio Fabio Colombo, Shahla F. Ali, Filip Balcerzak, and Joshua Karton

in Diversity in International Arbitration: Why it Matters and How to Sustain It,
ed. by Shahla F. Ali, Filip Balcerzak, Giorgio Fabio Colombo and Joshua Karton  (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022), Chapter 1, pp.2-5

Introduction: For decades, arbitration has been a preferred means for settling cross-border business and investment disputes. Given its inter-, trans-, and to some extent a-national character, there has been a natural and mostly positive trend toward harmonization in the ways arbitration is practiced and in the laws that support the international arbitration system.