2025 International Arbitration Survey 

The Path Forward: Realities and Opportunities in Arbitration

SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION

QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON

In partnership with

WHITE & CASE

                                                                                    
 

Introduction 

This is the fourteenth major empirical International Arbitration Survey conducted by the School of International Arbitration, Queen Mary University of London (QMUL). We are pleased once again to welcome White & Case LLP as our project partner.

The Survey considers both current practices and future opportunities for the system of international arbitration and key aspects of the arbitral process, as experienced by its users. The Survey aims to gather the views of the international arbitration community as a whole, and not just those of any particular group within it. All stakeholders are invited to share their perspectives.

The questionnaire should take about 20 minutes to complete. In addition to the questionnaire phase of the Survey, we will conduct individual interviews with a selection of volunteers from October to December 2024.

Your participation in this Survey will be kept fully confidential. Your name and the name of your organisation will not appear on any materials connected with the Survey. The information gathered via the questionnaire and interviews will be stored securely by QMUL and used only for the purposes of the current Survey and any subsequent surveys and research outputs. 

The closing date for responses is Wednesday 11 December 2024. Results will be published in 2025. The questionnaire can be completed online, or in PDF format and sent to Dr. Thomas Lehmann. Please see the QMUL webpage for further information.

We are grateful for your participation and look forward to the Survey’s findings. Since the results will benefit from a wide pool of respondents, please feel free to forward this questionnaire to any other potentially interested respondents.

Further information can be obtained from:

Dr. Thomas Lehmann

White & Case Postdoctoral Research Fellow in International Arbitration
School of International Arbitration
Centre for Commercial Law Studies
Queen Mary, University of London
67-69 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3JB, UK

Email:                    t.g.p.lehmann@qmul.ac.uk  
Website:                 http://www.arbitration.qmul.ac.uk/
 

Instructions 

  • Not all questions may be relevant to all respondents. Please answer as many questions as you can, leaving blank any that you are not able to answer.

  • Answering the questions does not require any data collection or research. Please answer all questions based on your existing knowledge only.

  • Please note that if your organisation is part of a larger group, you should only answer for the organisation for which you work or over which you have responsibility, rather than for the whole group. 

  • All questions are about international disputes only. For the purposes of the Survey this means: (1) disputes in which the parties, or their controlling shareholders, are from different jurisdictions, or (2) disputes where the parties are from the same jurisdiction, but the dispute involves an international (i.e., not purely domestic) element.

  • When a question states that it concerns a specific period of time (e.g., “the past five years”), and you only have an answer for a shorter period, please give an answer for that shorter period.