"This book contains the edited versions of papers on Mandatory Law in Arbitration delivered at a colloquium on Mandatory Rules of Law in International Arbitration held at Columbia Law School in June 2007 and organized by Professor George A. Bermann of Columbia Law School and Professor Loukas A. Mistelis of the School of International Arbitration, Queen Mary University of London. The chapters collected in this book were first published in Vol. 18, issues 1-2 of the The American Review of International Arbitration after they had been edited and prepared for publication under the direction of Elizabeth H. Cooper, the Managing Editor of the Review"--Page v. & vii.