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International Litigation & Arbitration

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The world of international dispute resolution has changed significantly in the last ten to fifteen years. International actors now must consider a wide array of options regarding how, when and where their legal disputes will be resolved. This entry discusses the various means of resolving international legal disputes and outlines how law and economics analysis has helped rationalize an increasingly chaotic field of law. In so doing, the discussion considers four core areas of concern: the effectiveness of international dispute resolution; competition between and within different dispute resolution mechanisms; choice of substantive and procedural law and conflict of laws; and third-party funding.

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Strong, S.I. (2014). International Litigation & Arbitration. In: Backhaus, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Law and Economics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7883-6_70-1

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