The UNCITRAL Model Law after Twenty-Five Years: Global Perspectives on International Commercial Arbitration is a celebration of the Model Law’s significant contribution to international arbitration law. It assesses and evaluates the Model Law’s impact on the development of a universal arbitration law for a complex and mobile transnational community of lawyers, judges and arbitrators. Written from the perspective of counsel, arbitrators, legislators and judges, this collection is bold in its coverage of Model Law practice. It considers questions of legislative implementation; pre-award issues such as the review of arbitral jurisdiction and the production of evidence; post-award issues such as judicial review of arbitral awards; interpretation and harmonization methods; and questions of future reform. This is one of the only books on the market that considers the application of the UNCITRAL Model Law in both great depth and breadth, and from multiple perspectives. It provides critical assessments and evaluations of the impact that the Model Law has had after 25 years in various aspects of the arbitral process. The issues covered pertain to both substantive and procedural elements; theoretical and practical; historical and evolutional. The UNCITRAL Model Law after Twenty-Five Years: Global Perspectives on International Commercial Arbitration adopts a comparative approach and covers practice in nearly all Model Law countries and many others. As a seminal critique of the progress that the Model Law has made to date, this collection of articles will be of great benefit to judges, arbitrators, lawyers, academics and anyone interested in the future of international commercial arbitration. Frédéric Bachand is an Associate Professor of Law at McGill University, where he teaches in the areas of legal interpretation, extrajudicial dispute resolution, international investments, civil procedure, and civil evidence. His award-winning scholarship focuses on arbitration, with a particular emphasis on the role national courts play in the arbitral process. He holds doctorates from Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris I) and Université de Montréal, and a master’s degree from Cambridge. A member of the Quebec Bar since 1995, Professor Bachand acts as a consultant internationally in connection with numerous judicial proceedings relating to domestic and international arbitration. He has provided advice to many state entities, notably in China, Russia, Vietnam, Turkey, Haiti, Rwanda, Burkina Faso, the Central African Republic, Bangladesh, South Sudan, and Egypt, in relation to judicial training or law reform initiatives in the fields of international arbitration and private international law. Frédéric Bachand is one of three experts retained by the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law to contribute to its Digest of Case Law on the Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration. He is a National Correspondent for the CLOUT case reporting project. Fabien Gélinas is an Associate Professor of Law at McGill University, where he was Associate Dean of Law and Director of the Institute of Comparative Law, and teaches international arbitration and contract law.  He is a graduate of the University of Montreal and the Paris School of Diplomatic and Strategic Studies and holds a doctorate from the University of Oxford.  A barrister of twenty years’ standing, he consults widely on matters of dispute resolution and legal reform, and acts as arbitrator in international cases. Professor Gélinas was formerly General Counsel of the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) in Paris and a member of the drafting committee for the new ICC Rules of Arbitration, which came into effect in January of 2012.  He has acted as adviser and delegate to the United Nations Commission for International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), and the European Commission.  He was designated Appointing Authority by the Secretary General of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at the Hague (PCA) on several occasions. His teaching and scholarship span legal theory, dispute resolution, contract law, and constitutional law. His work has appeared in many countries in Arabic, English, French, Spanish, and Russian.  He was a lecturer at the Institute of Comparative Law in Paris and taught at the Faculty of Law of the University of Paris, the Institute of World Business Law, Trinity College Dublin, and Sciences Po in Paris.