Arbitrators Don’t Speak Esperanto: The Difficulties and Dominance of English as a Procedural Language in Arbitration
The claim that arbitrators do not speak Esperanto may seem so obvious that it should not be stated at all. The artificial language was conceived in the late nineteenth century by Ludwik Lejzer Samenhof as a simple, neutral language that was not tied to any one culture. People of different national and ethnic groups would…