Parité n’est pas diversité ! Loin de la favoriser, la parité fait en réalité obstacle à la diversité en matière d’arbitrage commercial
Co-authored with Guillaume Feld. ASA Bulletin, Vol. 40, 4/2022 (December), Switzerland.
Over the last decade, commercial arbitration undeniably progressed towards more diversity on its arbitral tribunals. Mainly geared towards gender, ethnic and age, increased diversity was the result of a determined and relentless push by interest groups, themselves a product of the arbitration ecosystem. However laudable, the debate around diversity falls short of considering arbitral proceedings’ goal and arbitration users’ interests which imperils the institution’s legitimacy and future…