Originally from Leading Practitioners' Guide to International Oil & Gas Arbitration

PREVIEW

The late Professor Thomas Wälde—my former colleague at CEPMLP, University of Dundee—long argued that there was an urgent need for a book on the subject of international oil and gas arbitration or, more accurately, a book that focused both on international investor-state arbitration and international commercial arbitration through the prism of oil and gas industry disputes. On more than one occasion, Thomas and I debated both the prospects for such a book and the logistical and practical difficulties that might be involved in bringing such a book to publication. And then our lives moved in different directions and the book did not come to fruition.

More recently, Mike Kitzen at JURIS invited me to serve as the Editor for the very type of book Thomas Wälde and I had previously considered. After some hesitation and a considerable amount of assessment, I accepted Mike Kitzen’s offer, in part because I had come to believe that Thomas Wälde’s vision was realistic and timely and also because I knew from past experience that JURIS was the perfect publisher for such a work.