This Festschrift was put together to honor Professor George Bermann’s pivitol role in the development of international arbitration. To mark his 75th birthday, the world’s leading arbitration and comparative law practitioners have banded together to produce a singular volume worthy of the great man.  This book promises to be the single most important volume on the state of arbitration in a generation and will serve as a brilliant collection of insights from the world’s leading thinkers on where we are and where we might go.  The book features over 85 essays and articles from more than 100 authors. Chapters are organized into seven subject areas including George Bermann’s impact on the Legal Profession and current issues in the Practice of Arbitration, Transnational Litigation, Comparative Law and Legal Systems, Treatment of Arbitration in National Courts, Scope Arbitration Agreements, and Public International Law and Investor-State Dispute Settlement. Chapters can be purchased individually from the Table of Contents tab. About Professor George A. Bermann George A. Bermann, Professor of Law, at Columbia Law School, is a highly experienced international arbitrator in both commercial and investment arbitration.  He has conducted arbitration regularly since 1980 before all the leading international arbitral institutions. He arbitrates disputes in all sectors, including general commercial contract, construction, intellectual property, energy, oil and gas, competition law, insurance, telecommunications, pharmaceuticals, distributorship and franchising, transportation, and employment. Professor Bermann also serves regularly as expert witness before international arbitral tribunals as well as before courts in cases arising out of arbitration agreements, arbitral proceedings and arbitral awards. He also serves as co-counsel and advisor to counsel in international arbitral proceedings and in arbitration-related litigation. Professor Bermann is Chief Reporter of the American Law Institute’s “Restatement of the U.S. Law of International Commercial and Investment Arbitration” and co-author (with Emmanuel Gaillard) of the UNCITRAL Guide to the New York Convention. He is also professor affilié at the Ecole de droit, Institut des Sciences Politiques (Paris), professor in the Geneva LL.M. in International Dispute Settlement (MIDS), and adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center. Professor Bermann was Founding Member, Governing Board of International Court of Arbitration of the ICC (Paris).  He is currently member of the Standing Committee of International Court of Arbitration of the ICC and of the ICC Commission on International Arbitration. He co-chairs the Global Board of Advisers, New York International Arbitration Center (NYIAC) and is Council Member of the American Arbitration Association and Board Member of the Center for Conflict Prevention and Resolution (CPR). He is also a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (London). Professor Bermann in Co-Editor-in-Chief (with Rob Smit) of the American Review of International Arbitration (ARIA) and editorial board member of the Revue de l’Arbitrage. He is the recipient of several university honorary degrees. Julie Bédard is Head of Skadden’s International Litigation and Arbitration Group for the Americas. She is a prior member of Skadden’s Policy Committee, the firm’s governing body. Fluent in French, Spanish and Portuguese, Ms. Bédard practices in four languages in complex disputes and investigations. Trained in both civil and common law, Ms. Bédard has a doctorate in conflict of laws and represents clients in connection with litigation and arbitration proceedings throughout the world, raising disputes on governing law, jurisdiction, the enforcement of arbitration agreements, extraterritoriality and international judgment enforcement. She represents clients in federal and state courts in the United States and has served as counsel in international arbitration proceedings held under the rules of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), the American Arbitration Association (AAA), the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR), the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) and the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID). She regularly advises clients on protecting their global investments under international treaties and provides strategic advice on drafting dispute resolution clauses in international commercial contracts. Patrick W. Pearsall is a Partner in the Washington, D.C office of Allen & Overy LLP. Patrick has extensive experience representing parties in international disputes and providing strategic advice on investments, particularly in the energy and extractive sectors. He served in the U.S. State Department for nearly a decade, working on natural resource diplomacy, and departed as the Chief of Investment Arbitration. Patrick has successfully resolved claims involving billions of dollars. He is often