Book review: Russell on Arbitration (24th edition)

No-one can do justice to one of the great works on arbitration law of our time (or indeed any time) in 300 words. This book is still an indispensable source of knowledge and wisdom for anyone able to read English with an interest in arbitration, however slight. Francis Russell, wherever you are: be very proud of the team at Allen & Overy. In 1849, while the Irish famine was at its nadir, you, a hitherto unknown (coincidentally Irish) barrister, put your pen to A Treatise on the Power and Duty of an Arbitrator and the Law of Submissions and Awards. 166 years later, we have the 24th incarnation of your work. It carries your distinguished heritage, and your name, into the 21st century. It may bear little resemblance to your first, but even you would have to admit that arbitration,