This Article provides a short summary of the distinctions between privacy and confidentiality in domestic arbitration … effects of these distinctions in that context. It explains that such arbitration is generally private in that it is a closed … confusion regarding the arbitration process that may lead parties to accept arbitration agreements without contracting for …

Conflict is an inevitable facet of international relations. As much as the nations of the world work harmoniously in …

Incomplete contracts and laws often lead to disputes. Before a dispute arises, parties can adopt an arbitration clause …. Our results contrast with existing literature, which does not distinguish between contracts, where arbitration clauses are … litigation tax, might increase litigation in contracts. Finally, we note that arbitration clauses are akin to making a contract …

sovereign prerogative of revenue raising, the practice proves very much to the contrary. Arbitration of tax-related disputes … proves very much a reality despite doctrinal objections. The amenability of such disputes to arbitration remains highly fact …-intensive, with no hard-and-fast rule prohibiting all tax arbitration per se, while some controversies stay out-of-bounds for …

deemed a localized, industry-specific practice. The "new" or "mass arbitration" only mildly resembles the traditional system … who were relatively equal in bargaining power and knowledge, these systems for mass arbitration lack a freely entered … bargain and resemble more closely, contracts of adhesion. Privatized arbitration resolves issues of both statutory and …

unconditional positive. And in the context of investment arbitration, there are reasons why we may believe that the conditions for … consistency to be a good thing are actually not met: in investment arbitration the pursuit of consistency may well do more harm …