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Is the party-appointed arbitrator a "pernicious institution"? A reply to Professor Hans Smit

Sacerdoti, Giorgio

Some readers of the Columbia FDI Perspective No. 33 of December 14, 2010 may have been surprised to read Hans Smit's contribution against party-appointed arbitrators. The opening of his Perspective could not be expressed in more sweeping terms: "In my judgment, party-appointed arbitrators should be banned unless their role as advocates for the party that appointed them is fully disclosed and accepted. Until this is done, arbitration can never meet its aspiration of providing dispassionate adjudication . . . ."

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Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment
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Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment
Series
Columbia FDI Perspectives, 35
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June 23, 2011