Dealing in Virtue: International Commercial Arbitration and the Construction of a Transnational Legal Order

by Yves Dezalay and Bryant G. Garth

Book Overview

In recent years, international business disputes have increasingly been resolved through private arbitration. The first book of its kind, Dealing in Virtue details how an elite group of transnational lawyers constructed an autonomous legal field that has given them a central and powerful role in the global marketplace.

Building on Pierre Bourdieu's structural approach, the authors show how an informal, settlement-oriented system became...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226144232
• ISBN13: 9780226144238
• Release Date: July 1998
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 354 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

An excelent work on law sociology.

The autor have done a very clear presentation of the construction of fields (a Pierre Bourdieu's concept) in law legitimation and social creation of power. Tis book isn't only an important work on international arbitration but a fundamental reading to all that would like to understand law and society. The history of international arbitration field on ICC and other institutions, illustrated by several examples, is, perhaps, the best way to undersatnd how and why the international ADR have developed and works.