Discourse and Practice in International Commercial Arbitration Issues, Challenges and Prospects

Vijay K. Bhatia is a Visiting Professor in the Department of English. Before joining the City University of Hong Kong in 1993, he worked at the National University of Singapore (1983Â]1993). He is also the founding President of the Association of LSP and Professional Communication for the Asia-Pacific Region. Some of his recent research projects include Analyzing Genre-bending in Corporate Disclosure Documents, and International Arbitration Practice: A Discourse Analytical Study, in which he leads research teams from more than 20 countries. His research interests include genre analysis of academic and professional discourses, including, legal, business, newspaper, advertising genres, ESP and Professional Communication. He has given more than 150 presentations in international conferences, including about 50 plenary and keynote papers in the last ten years. Christopher N Candlin is Senior Research Professor in the Department of Linguistics at Macquarie University, Sydney. He was the Foundation Executive Director of the Australian Government's National Centre for English Language Teaching & Research from 1987-1998, and established the Research Centre in Language in Social Life, also at Macquarie. He has held Professorships at Lancaster, UK, The City University of Hong Kong, the UK Open University, and The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and holds Honorary Professorships at the Universities of Lancaster, Nottingham and Cardiff in the UK, and at Beijing Foreign Studies University. His current research is in the field of professional and organizational communication, particularly in healthcare and law. He has over 150 publications in terms of books, book chapters, papers in international academic journals in his fields of interest and commissioned reports, and has successfully supervised over 65 doctorate students. He is, or has been, a member of the Editorial Boards of several international journals, including Applied Linguistics, TEXT & TALK, Journal of S