In resolution of international contract disputes, arbitrators may sometimes show greater fidelity than courts to the parties' intentions and established rule of a chosen law, foregoing any policy-making function similar to that sometimes asserted by common law judges. In adjusting international...

Discussions of the future lie within the realm of soothsayers and other such prognosticators. The track record of those ‘professionals', often rightly described as charlatans, is famously not so great. Nor have many of the great scientists or politicians of modern times been more successful....