Liber amicorum Bernardo Cremades by M.A. Fernandez Ballesteros and D. Arias (eds.). Published by La Ley, Madrid (2010, 1256 pp.). Hardcover, Price USD 196.00. ISBN 978-84-8126-590-3. Bernardo Cremades is without a doubt the best known Spanish jurist in the sphere of international arbitration. He has been and continues to be the leading authority on arbitration in Spain. His outstanding career, however, is admired far beyond the confines of our borders, making him our ambassador par excellence abroad (see the contribution in this volume by Gonzalo Biggs, ‘Bernardo Cremades’ Contribution to the Development of Arbitration Law in Latin America’). For this reason the Spanish Arbitration Club has decided to pay tribute to his lifelong experience with the publication of this volume which gathers together contributions from over 70 experts in the field. Specialists of great renown from all corners of the globe have paid this well-deserved homage to him through reflections and studies addressing, principally in English, all areas of arbitration. A simple glance at the list of the main issues dealt with in this volume demonstrates its unique worth. Rather than a mere compendium of studies it is a true vademecum, that is, a treatise containing the most significant ideas within a given specific field, in our case international arbitration, in its different dimensions. A vademecum marked, furthermore, by the truly contemporary nature of the issues at hand: the international sources of arbitration; the role of mediation and the negotiations between the parties; comparative arbitration law which leads us to different aspects of arbitration in countries such as Argentina, Mexico, Brazil, Italy, France, Lebanon, Syria and the Islamic world; institutional arbitration and arbitration within the framework of international organisations; the efficacy of the arbitration agreement; the appointment and role of the arbitrator (vis-a-vis questions of ethics, independence and impartiality); the arbitrability of disputes; the jurisdiction of arbitrators; arbitration procedure (due process, counterclaims, locus standi, intervention of experts and amid curiae , the role of lawyers, presentation …