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5 - Arbitrator Challenges in International Investment Tribunals

from Part I - Process Legitimacy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 January 2022

Daniel Behn
Affiliation:
Universitetet i Oslo
Ole Kristian Fauchald
Affiliation:
Universitetet i Oslo
Malcolm Langford
Affiliation:
Universitetet i Oslo
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Summary

This chapter provides an account of ways that experimental methods can be used to uncover and identify decision-making biases. Investment arbitration tribunals derive their legitimacy from different normative, sociological and political processes than standing courts. In great part, these tribunals rely on tacit norms of behaviour among arbitration professionals. Understanding what factors affect how arbitrators make decisions in these kinds of adjudicative settings is essential in assessing critiques concerning the quality or correctness of their decisions and especially their independence and impartiality. The authors describe a promising alternative empirical strategy that utilizes survey experiments conducted on arbitration professionals to test bias claims. It discusses also how researchers can design experimental vignettes to mimic specific aspects of the arbitration process that are difficult to observe or manipulate in the real world context.

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The Legitimacy of Investment Arbitration
Empirical Perspectives
, pp. 133 - 158
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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