This article discusses (1) the high levels of resilience required of legal practitioners involved in international arbitration, (2) the scale and extent of mental health challenges facing the legal industry, and (3) the necessity of taking urgent action to address the problem, including broader behavioural changes that need to be made in dispute resolution. A number of key principles are then proposed that could form the basis of a move towards ‘Mindful Arbitration’, viz a means of encouraging all international arbitration stakeholders to make a concrete commitment to ease undue mental stress on all participants in the process.
Asian Dispute Review