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FIDIC contracts, the standard forms published by the International Federation of Consulting Engineers, govern more cross-border construction and infrastructure projects than any other family of contracts in the world. The Red, Yellow and Silver Books sit behind everything from a single power plant to a multi-billion-dollar rail concession, and nearly all of them route disputes

Few sectors generate disputes as varied, technically dense or geopolitically charged as metals and mining. A single mine may sit at the intersection of a state concession, a joint venture agreement, an offtake contract, an environmental permit and a bilateral investment treaty, and a dispute arising from any one of these instruments can ripple through

When a cross-border contract goes wrong and the parties turn to arbitration rather than the courts, the single most consequential decision they will make is not where the hearing takes place or which rules apply. It is who sits as arbitrator. In the United States, where parties routinely draw on both domestic and international frameworks,