Arbitration and Judicialization

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  • Alec Stone Sweet Yale University

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Principal-Agent framework, International Center for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), arbitration, judicialization, proportionality, balancing, Dispute Resolution

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The arbitral world is at a crucial point in its historical development, poised between two conflicting conceptions of its nature, purpose, and political legitimacy. Formally, the arbitrator is an agent of the contracting parties in dispute, a creature of a discrete contract gone wrong. Yet, increasingly, arbitrators are treated as agents of a larger global community, and arbitration houses concern themselves with the general and prospective impact of important awards. In this paper, I address these questions, first, from the standpoint of delegation theory. In Part I, I introduce the basic “Principal-Agent” framework [P-A] used by social scientists to explain why actors create new institutions, and then briefly discuss how P-A has been applied to the study of courts. Part II uses delegation theory to frame discussion of arbitration as a mode of governance for transnational business and investment. In Part III, I argue that the International Center for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) is presently in the throes of judicialization, indicators of which include the enhanced use of precedent-based argumentation and justification, the acceptance of third-party briefs, and a flirtation with proportionality balancing. Part IV focuses on the first wave of awards rendered by ICSID tribunals pursuant to Argentina’s response to the crushing economic crisis of 2000-02, wherein proportionality emerged, adapted from the jurisprudence of the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization.

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Leitner Professor of Law, Politics, and International Studies, Yale Law School,

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Stone Sweet, A. (2012) «Arbitration and Judicialization», Oñati Socio-Legal Series, 1(9), or. 23. Available at: https://opo.iisj.net/index.php/osls/article/view/169 (Eskuratua: 23 abenduak 2024).

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