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Arbitration As Contract: The Need For A Fully Developed And Comprehensive Set Of Statutory Default Legal Rules, Jack M. Graves Apr 2011

Arbitration As Contract: The Need For A Fully Developed And Comprehensive Set Of Statutory Default Legal Rules, Jack M. Graves

William & Mary Business Law Review

This Article analyzes the United States Federal Arbitration Act, as a statutory framework for effective arbitration of contract disputes. While arbitration under this Act has been subject to ever increasing criticism and calls for reform on a variety of fronts—most often from the perspective of consumer or employment arbitration—this Article focuses specifically on commercial, business-to-business arbitration and critically evaluates the Act as a set of default legal rules governing arbitration as a unique contractual business relationship.

The Article first looks at arbitration from a contractual default rules perspective and then employs this perspective to analyze: (1) the existing federal statutory …


Enforcing Arbitration Of Federal Securities Law Claims: The Effect Of Dean Witter Reynolds, Inc. V. Byrd, Michael Durrer Feb 1987

Enforcing Arbitration Of Federal Securities Law Claims: The Effect Of Dean Witter Reynolds, Inc. V. Byrd, Michael Durrer

William & Mary Law Review

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