Johnny Veeder QC 1948–2020 From the General Editor

Abstract

Thirty-six years ago, with a handful of arbitration aficionados, Johnny Veeder founded Arbitration International, later providing yeoman service as the journal’s second General Editor. The journal aimed to deliver high-quality scholarship in the English language, on a broad spectrum of topics related to resolution of cross-border disputes, both public and private. At that moment, for better or for worse, international arbitration found itself moving into the realm of serious big business, leaving behind its earlier status as a ‘cottage industry’ permeated by the culture of French and Swiss legal artisans, or specialists working in particular fields such as insurance or construction. In his farewell as General Editor, Johnny noted the exponential increase in global trade that overlapped the journal’s early decades, bringing a concomitant upsurge in the number and size of arbitral proceedings.1 More and bigger proceedings meant new national arbitration statutes, as well as the teaching of...