ARTICLE · 07 OCTOBER 2013

Party-Appointed Arbitrators: What Is Their Proper Role?

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Two distinguished US international arbitrators recently published an outspoken attack on two distinguished European arbitrators, following their own publication of articles questioning the impartiality of party-appointed arbitrators.

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Professor John Uff CBE KC

Two distinguished US international arbitrators recently published an outspoken attack on two distinguished European arbitrators, following their own publication of articles questioning the impartiality of party-appointed arbitrators. So, what was all the fuss about?

The first volume of Arbitration International of 2013 contains an astonishing attack by two of the most distinguished US international arbitrators, Charles N Brower and Charles B Rosenberg, respectively former judge and legal advisor to the Iran-US Claims Tribunal, on two of the most distinguished and experienced European Arbitrators, namely, Jan Paulsson and Albert Jan van den Berg, under the title 'The Death of the Two-headed Nightingale'.

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