Ad hoc Arbitration and Its Enemies: Paper Review

 Ad hoc arbitration and its Enemies is an interesting speech given in the International Congress of Maritime Arbitrators (ICMA XXI), Rio de Janeiro, 9 March 2020, published in the recent issue of Arbitration. The paper provides an overview of ad hoc arbitration in the international arbitration landscape but in terms of normative arguments in support of it, we do not see much. Notwithstanding that, in a country like India where ad hoc arbitration is the norm, the paper is a timely reminder that while institutional arbitration needs to be encouraged, ad hoc arbitrations should not be left out of the lens of reform.