- A combination of well-organized and readable text with extensive, detailed footnotes;
- Footnotes provide numerous cross-references to other parts of book where topics receive additional or expanded treatment;
- An index prepared by a practitioner sensitive to use of book as research tool for lawyers and courts;
- Appendices provide essential primary source material;
- Identifies interpretive issues that have yet to be resolved by the courts and exposes flaws in Convention jurisprudence;
- Explains how lack of familiarity with and understanding of the Panama Convention and its implementation under the Federal Arbitration Act can have drastic consequences;
- Identifies problems with the implementing law that may be significant when compelling arbitration or enforcing an award; and,
- Reveals differences between the Panama and New York Conventions and exposes potential grounds for challenging enforcement of an award that might otherwise be overlooked.