Selected Publications

Books:

Arbitration of International Business Disputes (2006)

Income Tax Treaty Arbitration (2004)
With David R. Tillinghast

International Chamber of Commerce Arbitration (Third Edition, 2000)
With W. Laurence Craig & Jan Paulsson

International Commercial Arbitration: Cases, Materials and Notes (1997) With W. Michael Reisman, W. Laurence Craig & Jan Paulsson

International Forum Selection (1995)

Articles:

Fiscal Jurisdiction and Accrual Basis Taxation: Lifting the Corporate Veil to Tax Foreign Company Profits, 78 Columbia L. Rev. 1609 (1978)

Le Nouveau Statut des Banques Etrangères aux Etats-Unis, 32 Revue Internationale Droit Comparé 75 (1980)

Judicial Supervision of Transnational Commercial Arbitration, 21 Harvard Int'l L. J. 87 (1980)

Tax Characterization of International Leases: The Contours of Ownership, 67 Cornell L. Rev. 103 (1981)

Legal Issues in the Third World's Economic Development, 61 B. U. L. Rev. 1321 (1981)

Lex Loci Arbitri and International Commercial Arbitration, 32 Int'l & Comp.L.Q. 21 (1983)

Private Adjudicators and the Public Interest: The Expanding Scope of International Arbitration, 12 Brooklyn J. Int'l L. 629 (1986)

National Legal Systems and Private Dispute Resolution, 82 Am. J. Int'l. 616 (1988)

National Law and Commercial Justice, 63 Tulane L. Rev. 647 (1989)

Legal Policy Conflicts in Int'l Banking, 50 Ohio State L. J. 1067 (1989)

When the Borrower and the Banker Are at Odds: Arbitration and International Finance, 65 Tulane L. Rev. 1323 (1991)

Spiritual Energy and Secular Power, in Religion and International Law 171 (Mark Janis ed., 1991; revised for 2d ed. 1999)

L'Arbitrage et le recouvrement des prêts consentis à des débiteurs étrangers, 37 McGill L. J. 375 (1992)

Anonymous Bank Accounts: Narco-Dollars, Fiscal Fraud and Lawyers, 15 Fordham Int'l L. J. 652 (1992)

Finality and Fairness in Tax Arbitration, 11 (No. 2) J. Int'l Arb.19 (1994)

Particularités de l'arbitrage en matière bancaire et financière, 1994 Semaine Judiciaire (Geneva) 621 (1994)

Illusion and Reality in International Forum Selection 30 Texas Int'l L. J. 135 (1995)

Neutrality, Predictability and Economic Cooperation, 12 (No. 4)  J. Int'l Arb. 99 (1995)

L'Arbitrage en Matière Financière, 40 Rev. Jurisprudence Commerciale 41 (1996)

The Arbitrability Dicta in First Options v. Kaplan: What Sort of Kompetenz-Kompetenz Has Crossed the Atlantic?, 12 Arb. Int'l 137 (1996), reprinted 11 Int'l Arb. Rep. 28 (Oct. 1996)

The Relative Reliability of Arbitration Agreements and Court Selection Clauses, in International Dispute Resolution: The Regulation of Forum Selection 3 (J. Goldsmith ed., 1997)

When and Why Arbitration Matters, in The Commercial Way to Justice 73 (G.M. Beresford Hartwell ed., 1997); reprinted 13 Int’l Arb. Rep. 14 (January 1998); adapted as Text and Context in International Dispute Resolution, 15 B.U. Int'l L. J. 191 (1997)

Determining Arbitral Jurisdiction: Allocation of Tasks Between Courts and Arbitrators, 8 Am. Rev. Int'l Arb. 133 (1997)

The Interaction of Courts and Arbitrators in England, 1 Int'l Arb. L. Rev. 54 (1998); reprinted 13 Int'l Arb. Rep. 21 (June 1998)

Arbitration in Banking and Finance, 17 Annual Rev. Banking Law 213 (1998); reprinted 1997 Yearbook Int’l Financial & Economic Law (1999) 141; adapted for Banks and Remedies 187 (2d Ed., William Blair, ed., 1999)

Bridging the Gap in Forum Selection, 8 Transnat'l L. & Contemp. Problems 19 (1998)

Duty and Discretion in International Arbitration, 93 Am. J. Int'l Law 805 (1999); reprinted 15 Int'l Arb. Rep. 28 (Jan. 2000) PDF 9.8MB & PDF2 & PDF3

Arbitration and the Fisc: NAFTA’s Tax Veto, 2 Chicago J. Int’l Law 231 (2001); reprinted 16 Int’l Arb. Rep. 33 (May 2001) and 2002 Stockholm Arbitration Report 21 (2002)

Arbitration’s Discontents: Of Elephants and Pornography, in Foundations and Perspectives of International Trade Law 258 (Ian Fletcher, Loukas Mistelis & Marise Cremona eds. 2001); reprinted 17 Arb. Int’l 263 (2001) and 17 Int’l Arb. Rep. 20 (Feb. 2002)

Why Courts Review Arbitral Awards, in Recht der Internationalen Wirtschaft und Streiterledigung im 21. Jahrhundert: Liber Amicorum Karl-Heinz Böckstiegel 595 (R. Briner, L. Y. Fortier, K.-P. Berger & J. Bredow, eds., 2001); reprinted 16 Int’l Arb. Rep. 27 (Nov. 2001) PDF

Income Tax Treaty Arbitration, 10 George Mason L. Rev. 803 (2002); reprinted 31 Tax Management Int’l J. 219 (2002); translated as L'arbitrato nei trattati sulle imposte sui redditi, Rivista di Diritto Tributario Internazionale 3 (gennaio-dicembre 2003)

The New Face of Investment Arbitration, 28 Yale J. Int’l L. 365 (2003), with Guillermo AguilarAlvarez; reprinted 19 Int’l Arb. Rep. 39 (January 2004)

Amending the Federal Arbitration Act, 13 Am. Rev. Int’l Arb. 75 (2002); adapted as The Specificity of International Arbitration: The Case for FAA Reform, 36 Vanderbilt J. Transnational L. 1241 (2003) PDF

Arbitration’s Protean Nature: The Value of Rules and the Risks of Discretion (The 2002 Freshfields Lecture), 19 Arb. Int’l 279 (2003); reprinted 19 Int’l Arb. Rep. 30 (May 2004) PDF 2.8 MB

The Nature of Arbitral Authority: A Comment on Lesotho Highlands, 21 Arb. Int’l 483 (2005)

The Procedural Soft Law of International Arbitration, in Pervasive Problems in International Arbitration 141 (L. Mistelis & J. Lew, eds. 2006)
PDF 92KB

Treaty Obligations and National Law, 58 Hastings Law Rev. 251 (2006), with Alexander Yanos

Procedural Evolution in Business Arbitration, adapted from Arbitration of International Business Disputes, Chapter 1 (2006) PDF 6.5MB

Challenge of Sovereignty, Arbitration of International Business Disputes, Chapter 2-E-1 (2006) PDF

Jurisdiction to Determine Jurisdiction, in 13 ICCA Congress Series 55 (Permanent Court of Arbitration, The Hague, 2007)

Two Faces of Progress: Fairness and Flexibility in Arbitral Procedure, 23 Arb. Int’l 499 (2007) PDF

Determining Arbitral Jurisdiction: Timing and Finality, 8 Nev. L.J. 135 (2007); adapted as Aritral Jurisdiction in the United States, 11 Int'l Arb. L. Rev. 33 (2008) PDF1 & PDF2

Tax Arbitration and Investment Treaties, in The Future of Investment Arbitration 227 (C. Rogers & R. Alford, eds. 2009); adapted from contribution to Investment Protection and the Energy Charter Treaty 115 (G. Coop & C. Ribeiro, eds. 2008)

Non-signatories and International Contracts: An Arbitrator’s Dilemma, in Multiple Party Actions in International Arbitration 3 (2009); adapted from Non-Signatories and International Arbitration, Leading Arbitrators' Guide to International Arbitration 553 (L. Newman & R. Hill, 2nd ed. 2008); reprinted 2 Dispute Res. Int’l 84 (2008) PDF 1.0MB

Arbitrability and Tax, in Arbitrability: International and Comparative Perspectives 179 (L. Mistelis & S. Brekoulakis, eds., 2008)

Framing the Case on Quantum , in Damages in International Arbitration, 2 World Arb. & Mediation Rep, 59 (2009) PDF

Shorter Pieces & Book Reviews:

International Products Liability Litigation: Choosing the Applicable Law, 12 Int'l Lawyer. 845 (1978)

French Codification of a Legal Framework for International Commercial Arbitration, 13 Georgetown J. L. & Pol. Int'l Bus. 727 (1981)

Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes?, Forum London (I.B.A., 1982)

The Binding Force of International Arbitral Awards, 23 Virginia J. Int'l L. 253 (1983), with Jan Paulsson

Book Review, Commercial Arbitration by Michael Mustill and Stewart Boyd, 11 Int'l Bus. Lawyer 216 (1983)

Predestination and Swiss Arbitration Law, 2 B.U.Int'l L.J. 1 (1983), with Philippe Neyroud

Arbitration of International Contract Disputes, 39 Bus. Lawyer 1783 (1984)

The Influence of National Legal Systems on International Arbitration, in Resolving Transnational Disputes Through Arbitration 80 (T. Carbonneau ed., 1984)

Compelling Information from Foreign Corporations, in Investments in U. S. Real Estate from a European Perspective 385 (R. Zäch ed., 1985)

Backup Withholding, Foreign Banks and Bearer Bonds, J. Strat. Int'l Tax’n 161 (1985)

Tax Planning for Foreign Investment in American Real Estate, J. Strat. Int'L Tax’n 247 (1985)

Arbitrage Commercial et Contrats Internationaux, 45 Revue du Barreau 215 (1985), with Jan Paulsson

Book Review, The French Law of Arbitration by Jean Robert & Thomas Carbonneau, 2 Arb. Int'l 266 (1986), with Laurent Lévy 

American Income Tax Aspects of Trans-Border Securities Investments, 4 B.U.Int'l L. J. 67 (1986)

Control Mechanisms in the Development of a Modern Lex Mercatoria, in Lex Mercatoria and Arbitration 143 (T. Carbonneau ed. 1990; rev. 1998)

Book Review, Guide to International Arbitration and Arbitrators by Hans Smit & Vratislav Pechota, 85 Am. J. Int'l L. 586 (1991)

Control Mechanisms in Tax Arbitration, in Resolution of Tax Treaty Conflicts by Arbitration 35 (G. Lindencrona ed., IFA Congress, 1994)

The Raison d'Etre of International Arbitration, 1995 Lov Og Rett 641 (Oslo, 1995)

Foreword to Christian Bühring-Uhle, Arbitration and Mediation in International Business (1996); 2d Edition, with Lars Kirchhoff and Gabriele Scherer (2005)

Book Review, Cases and Materials on Commercial Arbitration by Thomas Carbonneau, 7 Am. Rev. Int'l Arb. 199 (1996)

Documentary Credit Dispute Resolution: The Role of Arbitrators and Experts, 12  Int'l Arb. Rep. 15 (November 1997); adapted as The UCP in Court, Documentary Credits Insight 11 (ICC, Winter 1997)

International Dispute Resolution, Nat'l L. J., 4 May 1998, C18

In Memoriam -- Elizabeth B. Clark, 78 B.U. Law Rev. 242 (1998)

The Art of Doubting and Believing, by Sebastian Castellion, 54 Unitarian Universalist Christian 57 (1999) (Introduction and Translation)

The United Nations Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards, in Handbook of International Dispute Resolution 519 (B. Barin ed., 1999)

Making Sense of Financial Arbitration/Comprendre les enjeux de l’arbitrage financier, in Arbitration, Finance and Insurance 7 (ICC Court Bulletin, Special Supplement 2000)

Jurisdictional Issues in Financial Arbitration, in Festschrift für Otto Sandrock zum 70. Geburtstag 745 (Klaus Peter Berger, Werner F. Ebke, Siegfried Elsing, Bernhard Grossfeld & Gunther Kühne, eds. 2000)

Book Review, La Compromettibilità Per Arbitri: Studio Di Diritto Italiano e Comparato, by Aldo Berlinguer, in 16 Int’l Arb. Rep. 19 (March 2001), with Luisa Arosio.

Investor Nations as Host States under NAFTA Chapter 11, in Investment Treaties and Arbitration 9 (G. Kaufmann-Kohler & B. Stucki, eds.), Association Suisse de l’Arbitrage, Special Series No. 19 (Zürich 2002)

Contours of Arbitral Jurisdiction: Who Decides What?, 3 Int’L Arb. News 2 ( ABA, Summer 2003); reprinted 18 Int’l Arb. Rep. 21 (August 2003)

Arbitrability and American Securities Law, in Arbitration in Banking and Financial Matters 81 (G. Kaufmann-Kohler & V. Frossard, eds.), Association Suisse de l’Arbitrage, Special Series No. 20 (Geneva 2003).

International Commercial Dispute Resolution, 37 Int’l Lawyer 445 (2003), with Andrea Bjorklund & Jack Coe.

Irony in Intellectual Property Arbitration, 19 Arb. Int’l 451 (2003)

Developments in International Commercial Dispute Resolution, 38 Int’l Lawyer 265 (2004). With Jack Coe, Mark Friedman, Dietmar Prager & Steven Smith.

Saving the FAA, 4 Int’l Arb. News 10 ( ABA, Summer 2004); reprinted 19 Int’l Arb. Rep. 27 (Nov. 2004) PDF 280KB & PDF

NAFTA Challenges, in Investment Treaty Law (F. Ortino, A. Sheppard & H. Warner, eds. 2006, Symposium of 7 May 2004, British Institute of International & Comparative Law)

The French Influence on International Arbitration, in Contrasting Approaches to Global Business 107 (J-M Burguburu, ed. 2005) (Proceedings of Paris Bar Association Conference, November 2004, Washington, D.C.)

The Good Arbitrator, 10 LCIA News 28 (August 2005)

Private Disputes and the Public Good, 20 Am. U. Int’l L. Rev. 903 (2005) PDF

The Faith of Hosea Ballou, 60 Unitarian Universalist Christian 21 (2005)

Foreword, Leonard Schneidman, United States Taxation of Foreign Portfolio Investors (2006)

Procedural Default Rules, in Arbitration Insights 331 (J. Lew & L. Mistels, eds. 2006) PDF

Rules and Standards in Private International Law, Review Essay of Dicey, Morris and Collins: The Conflict of Laws (Sir Lawrence Collins, 14th ed.) 73 Arbitration 441 (2007) PDF 84KB

Respecting the New York Convention, in 18 (No 2) ICC Court of Arbitration Bulletin (2007) PDF

Uses of Comparative Arbitration Law, 24 Arb. Int’l 615 (2008); review essay on Jean-François Poudret & Sébastien Besson, Comparative Law of International Arbitration (2d ed. 2007), with Thomas W. Walsh PDF

The International Currency of Arbitral Awards, in International Arbitration 359 (Vol. I, Practicing Law Institute, 2008)