Legal Reasoning Across Commercial Disputes

Book excerpt: This text offers a novel, multi-pronged empirical analysis of legal reasoning in commercial disputes, comparing data across three different axes: the judicial-arbitral divide, the domestic-international divide, and the common law-civil law divide. In so doing, this volume provides important insights into how judges and arbitrators resolve complex commercial disputes in both national and international settings and conducts important comparisons between different procedures. The study includes three different empirical methodologies: a large-scale international survey, a series of semi-structured interviews, and a detailed quantitative (coding) exercise.