The Anatomy of International Arbitration: One Framework Across Eleven Mechanisms
The 2025 Queen Mary international arbitration survey, widely cited in the 2026 trend reports now circulating from major firms, found that around 90% of respondents expect to use AI for research, data analytics, and document review, while confidentiality and efficiency remain top of mind — and that respondents' expectations diverge sharply depending on which type of arbitration mechanism they practice in. Investor-State, commercial, sports, and maritime arbitration are converging on some issues and diverging sharply on others.
The Anatomy of International Arbitration, edited by Anna Petrig and Yarik Kryvoi, is built for exactly that comparison. Its "anatomical" approach applies the same framework — jurisdiction, procedure, adjudicators, applicable law, review, and relationship with domestic courts — across eleven distinct mechanisms, from inter-State and investor-State arbitration to commercial, maritime, commodities, sports, construction, and intellectual property disputes.
That structure makes the book useful in three ways: as a genuine entry point for someone new to arbitration who needs to see how the system fits together before specialising; as a comparative reference for a practitioner moving between mechanisms — say, from commercial into sports or maritime work — who needs to know quickly what changes and what doesn't; and as a teaching text, where the consistent chapter framework across mechanisms is built for classroom comparison rather than sequential reading.
For an academic law library, this is a rare single volume covering the full breadth of arbitration mechanisms rather than one specialism — a strong complement to the more mechanism-specific titles in the arbitration collection.
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Q&A
Q: What does "anatomical" mean in the title?
A: The book applies the same structural framework — jurisdiction, procedure, adjudicators, applicable law, review, relationship with courts — across eleven arbitration mechanisms, making them directly comparable.
Q: Which arbitration mechanisms are covered?
A: Inter-State, law of the sea, international administrative, investor-State, business and human rights, sports, commercial, maritime, commodities, construction, and intellectual property arbitration.
Q: Is this suitable for someone new to international arbitration?
A: Yes — Part I covers foundations and key concepts before the comparative mechanism chapters, making it a workable entry point as well as a reference.
Q: Who edited this volume?
A: Anna Petrig and Yarik Kryvoi, with chapters from a wide range of practitioners, academics, and arbitral institution figures.
Q: Where can I buy The Anatomy of International Arbitration?
A: Through CLNZ Books, with worldwide shipping and institutional invoicing available.