The Law and Practice of Arbitration - 3rd Edition

Price: $150.00 570 pages. 1 Hardcover Volume. Index. Table of Cases. Published October 2009.
ISBN-13: 978-1-933833-32-3 / ISBN-10: 1933833327

The Law and Practice of Arbitration - 3rd Edition $150.00

• Book Overview
• Table of Contents
• Chapters

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One: Arbitration Defined

1. Introduction
2. The Commercial Appeal
3. The Promise of Arbitration
4. How the Arbitral Trial Works
5. The Basic Mechanism
6. The Political Character of Arbitration
7. Reforming the FAA
8. Arbitration and ADR
9. The Law at a Glance
10. Arbitration and the Practice of Law
11. Conclusion

Chapter Two: Basic Concepts, Principles, And Issues

1. Party Autonomy
2. Arbitration Agreements
3. The Terms of Reference
4. Arbitrability
5. The Separability Doctrine and Kompetenz-Kompetenz
6. Adjudicatory Powers of the Arbitrators
7. Enforcement of Awards
8. Consolidation and Class Actions in Arbitration
9. Fast-Track Arbitration
10. Selecting Arbitrators
11. Expanding the Reach of Arbitration Agreements
12. Waiver of the Right to Arbitrate
13. Multijurisdictional Practice in Arbitration
14. Immunity in Arbitration
15. Arbitral Institutions
16. The Special Status of Labor Arbitration
17. "Anational" Arbitration: The Lex Loci Arbitri and
the Lex Mercatoria
18. Judicial Supervision of the Merits of Awards
in Anglo-Saxon Laws
19. Maritime Arbitration: A Model of International
Commercial Arbitration
20. International Treaties and National Statutes on Arbitration
21. Contemporary Arbitration Statutes

Chapter Three: The FAA and the Uniform Law

1. The Early “Hostility”
2. The United States Arbitration Act of 1925
3. The Significant Provisions and the Law That Underlies Them
4. The FAA as a “Super-ADR” Statute
5. The Uniform Law for States

Chapter Four: Arbitration and Federalism

1. Initial Steps Toward “Federalization”
2. The Federalism Trilogy
3. The Faux Pas in Volt
4. Affirming the Federalization Policy

Chapter Five: Contract Freedom and Arbitrability

1. The Decisional Edifice on Arbitration
2. Freedom of Contract
3. Mastrobuono
4. Kaplan
5. Freedom of Contract and the Sovereign Authority of the Arbitrator
6. The Demise of “Opt-in” Agreements
7. The Arbitrability of Statutory Claims

 1. The Anti-Arbitration Critique
 2. The Legislation
 3. The “Findings”
 4. An Assessment
 5. Securities Arbitration
 6. The McMahon Opinion
 7. The Reversal of Wilko
 8. Consumer Arbitration
 9. The Early Cases
 10.The Rise of Unconscionability
 11.The Ruling in Engalla
 12.Mutuality in Arbitration
 13.Forum Selection Clauses
 14.Nursing Homes
 15.Class Action Waivers
 16.Institutional Rules
 17.An Appraisal
 18.Employment Arbitration
 19.The Judicial Response
 20.An Interim Assessment
 21.The Arbitrability Schism
 22.Uncertainty in the Wake of the Schism
 23.The Demise of Gardner-Denver
 24.The Factor of Costs

Chapter Seven: The Enforcement of Arbitral Awards

1. Introduction
2. The General Policy for Review
3. The Public Policy Exception to Enforcement
4. Arbitrary and Capricious or Irrational Awards
5. Manifest Disregard of the Law
6. Undue Means
7.Excess of Arbitral Authority
8. Arbitrator Misconduct
9. Evident Partiality
10. Sanctions for Frivolous Appeals
11. Opt-In Provisions
12. The Action to Clarify Awards

Chapter Eight: International Commercial Arbitration

1. Introduction
2. An Assessment of the New York Arbitration Convention
3. The United States Supreme Court on ICA
4. A Brief History
5. ICA in the World Community
6. The Need for Uniformity
7. Impact on National Law
8. Law and Legitimacy in ICA

Conclusion
Table of Cases
Subject Index