The Art of Advocacy 1st & 2nd Edition - ( 2 Volumes)

Price: $200.00 1167 pages. Two Hardcover Volumes

• Book Overview

About the Book:
Written by today’s leading arbitrators and counsel, this remarkably candid guide provides insight into the practitioner’s approach, conduct, style, and techniques that have proven most effective.  While the facts and the law are fundamental, a successful outcome is the product of painstaking document review, witness interviews, legal research, strategizing and focusing the case, and developing compelling written and oral presentations. How to properly perform these tasks is the subject of this book. And where the first edition focused mainly on the cultural differences in advocacy performed in various regions of the world, this new edition expands on this theme by addressing each functional aspect of an international arbitration and the techniques that have been developed for good written and oral advocacy.  Intended to assist both the novice in learning the techniques of advocacy, and the experienced advocate in improving his skills, this is an essential reference. 

Praise For "The Art of Advocacy in International Arbitration - 1st Edition"

"This volume of essays contains many keys to the perceptions one might expect of arbitrators
from leading legal traditions. From the advocate’s perspective, a foreign arbitrator may seem to be
arbitrarily dismissive of some procedural niceties and astonishingly mesmerised by others; but
assumptions to that effect are at the advocate’s peril. There is always a reason for the arbitrators’
attitude, and that reason will invariably be a function of their cultural baggage. Mr. Bishop has
brought together a cosmopolitan group of distinguished practitioners – of which he is himself a
full-fledged member – who in these pages open quite a few fascinating trunks and valises. Above
all, these pages are filled not with abstractions, but with a myriad of concrete suggestions which
invariably merit consideration.
— Jan Paulsson, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Head of the firm’s International Arbitration Group.
He has also been involved in 17 ICSID cases. Mr. Paulsson is a Vice-President of the
London Court of International Arbitration and a Judge of the World Bank Administrative Tribunal.

"This excellent book, which is written by some of the leading practitioners in their field, deals with the finer
points of advocacy in international arbitration and litigation. This book provides the reader with a blueprint for
constructing their styles of advocacy and helps to navigate through the different complex rules and procedures
that make up this hybrid system of dispute resolution in the international arena. This book is essential for all
those involved in international arbitration and litigation. The techniques of preparing for written and oral advocacy
from different cultures discussed therein should stand the advocate in good stead with any tribunal."
— Christopher To, Secretary General, HKIAC; Asian Dispute Review, January 2007

“The contributing authors are experienced arbitration practitioners from different legal and cultural
traditions - the result is a rich variety of perspectives on advocacy skills in international arbitration.
. . . The main benefit of this guide is that it is practice-oriented. The reader is offered concrete advice
on how to develop effective lawyering skills in all aspects of the arbitral process, from the choice of
the tribunal to the preparation and presentation of a case before it. . . . More importantly, the reader
can gain a better understanding of the diverse legal and cultural traditions that underlie advocacy
in international arbitration, which will in turn help the advocate adapt his or her advocacy style to
that which best suits his or her audience.”
— Sarah Wazen, Hanotiau & Van Den Berg, Brussels

The Art of Advocacy

The Art of Advocacy in International Arbitration - 2nd Edition