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This latest edition of the previously titled Law and Practice of International Commercial Arbitration, now re-branded as Redfern and Hunter on International Arbitration for the fifth edition, heralds a certain changing of the guard for this well-known international arbitration text. The now titular-referenced original authors have relinquished primary responsibility for the book to their more recent co-authors, such that it is now said to be "by" Blackaby and Partasides "with" Redfern and Hunter, a reversal of the fourth edition's attributions. In discussing this transition of principal authoring responsibilities, the book's preface explains that Redfern and Hunter nonetheless remained intimately involved in preparing the fifth edition, having penned two "key", albeit unspecified, chapters and maintaining a reviewing eye over the remainder of the book. In fact, this succession recalls an earlier handing over of the reins between the same four individuals, Blackaby and Partasides currently being partners in Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer's international arbitration group, a practice which was largely created by Redfern and Hunter during their time as partners in that same firm. There has also been a change in publisher for the latest edition, with Oxford University Press replacing Sweet & Maxwell.
The last edition was considered by many as something of a "go to" authority...