This article is an additional to the major contents of the doctoral thesis of the author which aims at the pros and cons of med-arb in international commercial arbitration. Mediation and arbitration are alternative dispute settlement mechanisms, which have slightly different characteristics, but they are used in combination in many countries around the world, including Canada, the United States, China, Hong Kong and other civil law jurisdictions and known as both “Med-Arb” and “Arb-Med”, depending on which process was initiated first. ...