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Lawyers consider themselves to be professionally ethical. But ethics is relative and not everyone plays by the same rules. This book provides a masterful insight into the ethical issues affecting international arbitration and analyses many of the questions that will need to be addressed by the arbitral community if arbitration to be retain its legitimacy. Audley Sheppard, Global co-Head of the International Arbitration group and the International Law Group, Clifford Chance, London For years, scholars and practitioners interested in either professional ethics or international arbitration have known that Professor Catherine Rogers wrote the book on how these two fields intersect and demonstrate fundamental global developments in the legal profession. Now she literally has written the book on the subject. At a time when an ever increasing percentage of the world's most important disputes are being arbitrated, the insights Professor Rogers provides in this tightly written and broad-gauged volume about the ethical norms that ought to guide participants, and how those norms should be integrated into the arbitration system itself, have never been more needed or important. This book will be required reading for lawyers, academics, and policymakers interested in the future of international arbitration. David B. Wilkins, Lester Kissel Professor of Law, Harvard Law School

Professor Rogers has written a book that reshapes the intellectual landscape of this fundamental dimension of international arbitration and that is also a pleasure to read. All who labor in international arbitration are indebted to her. W. Michael Reisman, Yale Law School Rogers has a gift for seeing both sides of an argument, yet pointing us firmly to the path of principles likely to enhance arbitration's role in fair and efficient vindication of economic rights. William W. Rusty Park, President of the London Court of International Arbitration Catherine Rogers has done the arbitration community an immense service with this book. The issue of ethics in international arbitration is one that is of the highest importance. As the industry grows exponentially and as those who are engaged in this vital enterprise come from the many diverse regions of the world, there is now, more than ever, an urgent need for practitioners to have access to an authoritative source that analyses the issues, lays out the considerations and presents thoughtful answers to the many facets of ethicality in international arbitration. This book is that source. Catherine has examined the issue of ethics from all the significant vantage points - of arbitrators, lawyers, experts and even funders - in this magnificent work which is destined to become an essential part of the knowledge base of every serious practitioner and student of arbitration. Sundaresh Menon, Chief Justice. Supreme Court of Singapore At last, not only a book that addresses the long-neglected topic of ethics in international arbitration, but THE definitive book on the subject. Prof. Catherine Rogers' treatise, Ethics in International Arbitration (Oxford Press 2014) covers the field comprehensively, both in terms of theory and existing international norms. Prof. Rogers was the first commentator to publish articles that attempted a methodical approach to counsel ethics in international arbitration, more than a decade ago, and now this book takes the broader subject to its logical conclusion?the ethical obligations of counsel, arbitrators, expert witnesses, and third-party funders in international arbitration. This book is a necessary addition to the library of any specialist, or anyone aspiring to be a specialist, in the field of international arbitration. It will one day be considered a classic, necessary reading in the field, around which courses will be designed. I highly recommend it. Doak Bishop Lawyers consider themselves to be professionally ethical. But ethics is relative and not everyone plays by the same rules. This book provides a masterful insight into the ethical issues affecting international arbitration and analyses many of the questions that will need to be addressed by the arbitral community if arbitration to be retain its legitimacy. Audley Sheppard, Global co-Head of the International Arbitration group and the International Law Group, Clifford Chance, London Catherine Rogers had established herself as the leading scholar on the ethics of international arbitration. With this seminal book, she now demonstrates how important her work is for more general theoretical debates about legal ethics, legal theory, and the foundations of the global legal order. Knitting together insights from her extensive engagement with real world cases, with a deep understanding of sophisticated debates across a broad range of academic disciplines, Professor Rogers has produced a dazzling synthesis of theory and practice. Whether one is interested in dispute resolution, regulation, the sociology of the legal profession, or global governance - or the intersection of all of the above - this book will be required reading for anyone seeking to understand the power of grounded theory to shape how we understand and act in the world. David B. Wilkins, Lester Kissel Professor of Law, Harvard Law School Having regularly used Professor Catherine Rogers' articles and other ethics work in our day-to-day practice, I enthusiastically join the chorus of appreciation for her new book: 'at last!' Lucy Reed. Global Head of Freshfields' International Arbitration Practice, former President of the American Society of International Law Professor Catherine Rogers' latest book goes further than its title suggests. Under the concept of ethics , it embraces all the challenges international arbitration faces today, and it does so in a comprehensive and captivating way. Also, this approach addresses from a new perspective an old nagging question: the rules of ethics counsel follow originate from the national procedural rules they were trained in and are familiar with. Isabelle Haoutot. General Counsel for ORANGE, Paris, and Chair of the Corporate Counsel International Arbitration Group Reconciling highly territorial and often varied rules of professional responsibility with the increasingly borderless responsibilities of lawyers is one of the great challenges facing today's legal profession. The challenge is most acute in the context of international arbitration, where lawyers from different nations represent parties from different nations before arbitrators from different nations, often in a nation different from all of these. Catherine Rogers' book addresses head-on the numerous practical questions that arise in this complex context, while offering a brilliant and sensible prescription for the future regulation of professional responsibilities across borders. Ethics in International Arbitration is a seminal contribution to the literature on transnational law practice by one of the leading scholars of our time. Philip J. McConnaughay

At last, not only a book that addresses the long-neglected topic of ethics in international arbitration, but THE definitive book on the subject. Prof. Catherine Rogers' treatise, Ethics in International Arbitration (Oxford Press 2014) covers the field comprehensively, both in terms of theory and existing international norms. Prof. Rogers was the first commentator to publish articles that attempted a methodical approach to counsel ethics in international arbitration, more than a decade ago, and now this book takes the broader subject to its logical conclusion?the ethical obligations of counsel, arbitrators, expert witnesses, and third-party funders in international arbitration. This book is a necessary addition to the library of any specialist, or anyone aspiring to be a specialist, in the field of international arbitration. It will one day be considered a classic, necessary reading in the field, around which courses will be designed. I highly recommend it. Doak Bishop Lawyers consider themselves to be professionally ethical. But ethics is relative and not everyone plays by the same rules. This book provides a masterful insight into the ethical issues affecting international arbitration and analyses many of the questions that will need to be addressed by the arbitral community if arbitration to be retain its legitimacy. Audley Sheppard, Global co-Head of the International Arbitration group and the International Law Group, Clifford Chance, London For years, scholars and practitioners interested in either professional ethics or international arbitration have known that Professor Catherine Rogers wrote the book on how these two fields intersect and demonstrate fundamental global developments in the legal profession. Now she literally has written the book on the subject. At a time when an ever increasing percentage of the world's most important disputes are being arbitrated, the insights Professor Rogers provides in this tightly written and broad-gauged volume about the ethical norms that ought to guide participants, and how those norms should be integrated into the arbitration system itself, have never been more needed or important. This book will be required reading for lawyers, academics, and policymakers interested in the future of international arbitration. David B. Wilkins, Lester Kissel Professor of Law, Harvard Law School

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Catherine A. Rogers, is Professor of Law and International Affairs, and Paul & Marjorie Price Faculty Scholar at Penn State Law. She is also Professor of Ethics, Regulation & the Rule of Law, and Co-Director of the Institute for Ethics, Regulation & Commercial Law, at Queen Mary, University of London. She is a Reporter for the American Law Institute on the Restatement (Third) of the U.S. Law of International Commercial Arbitration, and the author of a series of widely-cited articles about the need for clearer ethical regulation in international arbitration. These works have been published over the past decade and have played an influential role in various law reform efforts. Today, Professor Rogers teaches and lectures throughout the world on issues of international arbitration, ethics, and globalization of the legal profession. Professor Rogers is also actively engaged in various projects to implement in practice many of the ideas and proposals developed in her scholarly work.

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