Contingent Fees and Third Party Funding in Investment Arbitration Disputes

Abstract:     
In this Special Mini-Edition of the Transnational Dispute Management Journal, co-editors Prof. Maya Steinitz and Joe Matthews have collected, edited and TDM now publishes original works by four authors who advance the critical analysis of issues raised by the increased presence of contingent fees and third party funding in connection with international investment disputes. TDM is also pleased to re-publish with permission an article authored by Prof. Steinitz in the Minnesota Law Review in January of this year entitled "Whose Claim is This Anyway? Third Party Litigation Funding."

Number of Pages in PDF File: 3

Keywords: Alternative Litigation finance, third party funding, litigation finance, Champerty, litigation costs, international access to justice, international commercial arbitration, international investment arbitration, contingent fee, conditional fee, alternative fee, costs, arbitrator ethics

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