In recent years Portugal has been enduring a bitter financial and political crisis. The judiciary, time and again depicted as being under pressure, is facing new predicaments. This chapter discusses three points of tension within the Portuguese judiciary: the creation of a new judicial map,...

Over the last decades, investment arbitrators have emerged as a professional class and become an object of study in their own right. This epistemic community is frequently described as small and close-knit. At its centre stands a nucleus of repeat arbitrators whose radiation is particularly...