This book engages with the concerns the rising phenomenon of arbitrations between private and public actors raises for principles of constitutional law - including democracy, the rule of law, and the protection of fundamental rights. It analyses how party-appointed, one-off arbitral tribunals determine the delineation of private rights and public interests within a transnational legal environment and provides a framework that aligns this activity with constitutional values. Featuring 20 chapters dealing with almost 40 jurisdictions from different corners of the world, the book examines how domestic legal systems and legal practice approach the involvement of public entities as parties to arbitration agreements and arbitration proceedings, to what extent the constitutional legal frameworks involved problematize private-public arbitration as a constitutional concern, and how different domestic legal systems ensure that private-public arbitration conforms to, and avoids undermining, the public interest. The chapters analyse, inter alia, whether the governing domestic law treats private-public arbitration differently from commercial arbitration between private parties, to what extent domestic law permits such arbitrations, what regulatory frameworks domestic law sets up, and what control mechanisms domestic law establishes in order to ensure that the public interest is safeguarded when public entities agree to have disputes resolved through arbitration rather than in domestic courts.

Table of Contents:
1: Stephan W Schill: The Comparative Constitutional Foundations of Private-Public Arbitration: An Introduction Part I. Private-Public Arbitration in Europe 2: Stavros Brekoulakis and Margaret Devaney: Private-Public Arbitration in English Law: The Splendid Isolation of Arbitration from Public Law 3: Florian Grisel: The Private-Public Divide and Its Influence over French Arbitration Law: Tradition and Transition 4: Stephan W Schill and Nadine Berger: Eroding the Rule of Law through Private-Public Arbitration? Constitutionalization of Private-Public Arbitration in the German Legal System 5: Victor Ferreres Comella and Pol Fontboté Pradilla: Private-Public Arbitration in Spain: Legislative Timidity in the Shadow of the Constitution 6: Nikolaos Askotiris: Private-Public Arbitration under Greek Law: A (Nearly Complete) Public Law Paradigm 7: Csongor István Nagy: Can a State Swim against the Tide? Hungarian Perspectives on Public-Private Arbitration 8: Egl:e Zemlyt:e, Tadas Varapnickas, Inga Ka%cevska, Aleksandrs Fillers, Karin Sein, and Pirkka-Marja Põldvere: Protection of the Public Interest in Private-Public Arbitration in the Baltic States Part II. Private-Public Arbitration in the Americas and the Pacific 9: Peter B Rutledge: Whither Leviathan? The Seepage of Constitutional Law into Public-Private Arbitration in the United States 10: Orlando Federico Cabrera Colorado and Andrea Orta González Sicilia: The Extrinsic Factors of World Trade that Galvanized Mexican Public-Private Arbitration during the Pre-NAFTA Years and the Evolution of Safeguards for the Public Interest 11: Conway Blake: Reconciling Arbitral and Constitutional Governance: The Critical Role of the (Caribbean) Courts 12: Diego P Fernández Arroyo, Francisco Amallo, and Ezequiel H Vetulli: The Legitimacy of Private-Public Arbitration in Argentina and Its Slight, but Yet Strong Differences with Private-Private Arbitration Part III. Private-Public Arbitration in Asia, Africa, and Australia 13: Jamal Seifi and Kamal Javadi: Public-Private Arbitration in the Iranian Legal System: The Intersection of Preferential Rights and Constitutional Constraints on Arbitration 14: Tamar Meshel: The Attorney General as Guardian of the Public Interest and the Evolution of Private-Public Arbitration in Israel 15: Ahmad Ghouri: Living on the Edge of Judicial Review: The Law and Practice of Private-Public Arbitration in Pakistan 16: Manjiao Chi: China>'s Bifurcated Attitudes towards Private-Public Arbitration 17: Jaemin Lee: Public Policy Dimensions of Public-Private Arbitration: Recent Development and New Awareness in Korea 18: Dominic Npoanlari Dagbanja: The Constitutional and Public Interest Foundations of Public-Private Arbitration in Ghana 19: Engela C Schlemmer: The Dichotomy of Arbitration with the State in South Africa 20: Caroline Henckels: Private-Public Arbitration in Australia: Public Law Concerns, Private Law Responses Annex: Country Questionnaire