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Does Rigorously Enforcing Arbitration Agreements Promote “Autonomy”?, Hiro N. Aragaki
Does Rigorously Enforcing Arbitration Agreements Promote “Autonomy”?, Hiro N. Aragaki
Indiana Law Journal
In recent years, the U.S. Supreme Court has helped transform arbitration law into a radical private-ordering regime in which freedom of contract has come to eclipse public regulation. Arbitration jurisprudence justifies this transformation in part on a profound and longstanding commitment to the ideal of individual autonomy, understood as the freedom—lacking in litigation—to select a disputing process best suited to one’s needs.
In this Article, I question the cogency of this justification. I argue, first, that autonomy has had different and sometimes conflicting meanings even within arbitration jurisprudence. Second, depending on the meaning one ascribes to autonomy, it is at …