This innovative casebook on International Commercial Arbitration approaches the subject as uniquely transnational law. It covers international conventions, court decisions, arbitral awards, statutes, and arbitration rules from all over the world. This thoroughly updated 5th edition includes the new 2010 UNCITRAL Rules, the new 2012 ICC Arbitration Rules, the 2011 amendments to the French procedural code on arbitration, the revised 2012 Chinese (CIETAC) Rules, and important new decisions of the highest courts in the U.S., France, the U.K., Germany, India, Finland, and other countries. New or revised sections concern fast track arbitration, non-signatory parties, required skills of arbitrators, challenges, confidentiality, the surprise doctrine in court review of awards, mandatory law, and other emerging issues.