Evolution of the Arbitration Forum as a Response to Mandatory Arbitration

Fixing the Mandatory Arbitration Problem: We Need the Arbitration Fairness Act of 2009

Creeping Mandatory Arbitration: Is It Just?

international commercial arbitration and the challenge of mandatory rules of law: the case of arbitration in antitrust claims

for decades, the approach of legal systems towards private arbitration in competition law has been characterized by a certain mistrust or suspicion. initially, this attitude may somehow have been linked to the uncertainty as to the arbitrability of competition law issues, in view of the fact that, in competition law matters generally, public interests are heavily at stake. in fact arbitration i...

On the Semantics of Arbitration

Revision and update operators add new information to some old information represented by a logical theory. Katsuno and Mendelzon show that both revision and update operators can be characterized as accomplishing a minimal change in the old information to accommodate the new information. Arbitration operators add two or more weighted informations together where the weights indicate the relative ...

The Changing Role of Arbitration

Arbitration has existed for centuries in parallel with adjudication 1 as a method of obtaining a binding decision of a dispute between private citizens. Although arbitral awards had to be enforced through judicial proceedings, the courts would enforce them "when fairly and lawfully made, without hesitation or question," as Justice Story declared in 1845 in Tobey v. County of Bristol.' In the An...