Preface
Acknowledgements
About the Author
PART I: GENERAL PERSPECTIVES
Chapter 1. The Revolution in Law through Arbitration
I. Introduction
II. Historical Antecedents
III. The FAA
IV. The Post-Erie FAA
V. The Impact of Collective Bargaining Agreement Arbitration
VI. The Influence of Transborder Arbitration
VII. The New Forms of Arbitration
VIII. Arbitrator Sovereignty
IX. The Legitimacy of the Federal Policy on Arbitration
X. Evaluating the Federal Policy
XI. Conclusions
Chapter 2. The Story of Arbitration Law
I. Introduction
II. Multi-Faceted Narrative
III. The Decisional Law
IV. Arbitration and ADR as a Deconstruction of Law
V. Assessing the Current Status of Arbitration
VI. Standards and Protection through Education
VII. Arbitration’s Political Dimension
VIII. Possible Reforms
IX. Conclusion
Chapter 3. The Reception of Arbitration in United States Law
I. Introduction
II. The Early View of Arbitration
III. Arbitration Rehabilitated
IV. The International Case Law
V. The Fusion of Doctrine
VI. Conclusions
PART II: CRITICAL THEMES
Chapter 4. At the Crossroads of Legitimacy and Arbitral Autonomy
I. Introduction
II. The U.S. Law on Enforcement
III. The Impartiality of Arbitrators: The Sole Court-Sanctioned Constraint
IV. Vacatur as an Abridgement of Arbitral Confidentiality
V. Expanding Constricted “Manifest Disregard”
VI. Possible Change
VII. Freedom of Contract Innovation: Opt-In Provisions
VIII. A Judicial Addition: The Action to Clarify Awards
IX. Conclusions
Chapter 5. Beyond Trilogies: A New Bill of Rights and Law Practice through Arbitration
I. Introduction
II. Affirming the Policy of Federalization (Terminix and Mastrobuono)
III. Revisiting Internationalism (Vimar)
IV. The Contract of Arbitration as Law (Kaplan)
V. Exploring the Contractualist View
VI. The New Lawyering
VII. Conclusions
Chapter 6. Arbitral Justice: The Demise of Due Process in American Law
I. The Arbitral Process: An Introductory Definition
II. Historical and Contemporary Standing of the Arbitral Remedy
III. The U.S. Arbitration Act
IV. Federalism and Larger Judicial Design for Arbitration
A. Enter the U.S. Supreme Court
B. The March Begins
C. A Critique
V. Arbitration and ADR
VI. Conclusions
PART III. ASSESSING THE PROCESS
Chapter 7. Arguments in Favor of the Triumph of Arbitration
I. Introduction
II. The Fairness of Adhesionary Arbitration
III. Debt Collection Cases
IV. Corporate Duality in the Use of Arbitration
V. La Bęte Noire
VI. Attacking the Beast
VII. Classwide Arbitration
VIII. A Trinity of Intractable Problems
IX. Possible Solutions to the Lack of Contract Fairness
X. International Arbitration
XI. Conclusions
Chapter 8. Commentary on Developments in U.S. Arbitration Law
I. "Triangular" Arbitration Agreement Held Unenforceable
II. Litigious Conduct in Arbitration
III. Third Circuit Endorses Contractual "Opt-In" Provisions while Vacating an Award for Excess of Arbitral Authority
IV. U.S. Supreme Court Holds That FAA § 1 Employment Contract Exclusion Applies Only to Workers Directly Involved in Interstate Transport: Employers Can Require All Other Employees to Arbitrate Employment Disputes
V. A Critique of the Uniform Arbitration Act (2000)
A. Important Issues
B. Additional Issues
1. Section 21
2. Section 7(c)
3. Section 8
4. Section 9
5. Section 10
6. Section 6
C. Issues Not Addressed in the UAA
1. Adhesionary and Unconscionable Arbitration Agreements
2. "Opt-In" Provisions
3. Challenges to the Validity of Awards
D. Concluding Thoughts on the UAA
VI. California Supreme Court Decides Armendariz
A. The Case
B. The Essential Elements
C. Damages
D. Discovery
E. Judicial Review and Written Findings
F. Bearing the Cost
G. Unconscionability
VII. Second Circuit Expands Judicial Scrutiny of Arbitral Awards
VIII. The Scope of the FAA and the Enforcement of Non-Arbitral ADR Mechanisms: Two Views
IX. A Comment on Borsack
PART IV. REFORMING THE PROCESS
Chapter 9. Arbitration and the U.S. Supreme Court: A Plea for Statutory Reform
I. Introduction
II. Arbitration and the Litigation Crisis
III. The History of Arbitration: The Distance between Distrust, Acceptance, and Federalization
A. Arriving at the Apogee of Judicial Liberalism
B. McMahon: The Epigee of the Liberal Doctrine
C. The Likely Consequences and Possible Motives
IV. Reactions to McMahon
A. Volt: A Note of Dissonance
B. Rodriguez: A Reaffirmation
V. Reasserting Juridical Control over Arbitration
VI. Conclusion
Chapter 10. "Arbitracide": The Story of Anti-Arbitration Sentiment in the U.S. Congress
I. Introduction: The U.S. Supreme Court and Arbitration
II. Disparate-Party Arbitration
III. Golden State Animosity
IV. The Weapon of Legislation
V. The Latest Legislative Instrument
VI. The Findings
VII. A General Assessment of the Findings
VIII. The Change to the FAA
IX. The Sessions Bill
X. Recent Developments
XI. Conclusion
PART V. LANDMARK CASES
Chapter 11. Excerpts of Writings on Arbitration: An Introduction and Commentary on Recent U.S. Supreme Court Cases
I. Introduction: The Rise of Arbitration
II. Presumptive Contract Validity
III. The Rule of Federal Law
IV. Unobstructed Arbitrability
V. The Imperial Federal Judicial Policy
VI. Arbitrator Impartiality and Disclosures
VII. The Golden Age
VIII. Adhesionary Arbitration
IX. Judicialization
X. The Fate of "Opt-In" Agreements
XI. The Action to Clarify Awards and the Imposition of Sanctions for Specious Litigation
XII. Commentary on Recent Cases
Chapter 12. Hall Street Associates, LLC v. Mattel, Inc.: A New Englander's Tale of Statutory Supremacy in Arbitration Law
I. Introduction
II. The Agreement
III. The Court's View of the FAA
IV. The Circuit Split
V. The Discussion of Manifest Disregard
VI. Immovability of the Statutory Text
VII. The Bluster of the Amici
VIII. Justice Scalia's Objection to Footnote Seven
IX. Delphic Dicta
X. The Dissents
XI. Conclusions
Index
