Today, binding arbitration procedures are employed in a wider variety of contracts than at any time in our nation …'s history, and arbitration has become a wide-ranging surrogate for court trial of civil disputes. As a result, arbitration is … subjected to unprecedented stresses and strains, and it is fair to say that arbitration has never been subject to wider …

Arbitrability is whether parties to a transaction have submitted a particular dispute to be resolved via arbitration … arbitrators or judges should decide the arbitrability question. Such questions raised at the very early stages of arbitration are … referred to as ‘gateway’ or ‘threshold’ issues.The proposition whether parties may submit disputes to arbitration is supported …

Despite the non-binding nature of investment arbitration decisions beyond the circle of disputing-parties, arbitration … tribunals rely on earlier decisions ‘whenever they can'. However, arbitration practice shows that opinions diverge when it comes … to deciding how much influence those earlier arbitration decisions should exert. These diverging opinions result from …

private international law and arbitration. The author opens the paper with the general differentiation between substantive and … primarily to the specifics of such differentiation in arbitration and to a comparison with litigation. The general comments are …

This paper summarizes and describes important arbitration law cases decided by the Supreme Court and lower courts … during the past year, and analyzes their impact on securities arbitration practice …