Mandatory arbitration has engendered a significant amount of debate, much of which focuses on the proper response the law should make to "one-sided" clauses - i.e., those that restrict the remedies and procedures available to individuals in arbitration. But how do we identify one-sided clauses?...

The Federal Arbitration Act mandates strict and uniform enforcement of standardized pre-dispute arbitration provisions. This may not be proper, however, in light of the importance of context with respect to these provisions. This Article therefore seeks to remind courts of the importance of...

It is widely acknowledged that the purpose of the Federal Arbitration Act was to place arbitration clauses on “equal footing” with other contracts. Nonetheless, federal and state courts have placed arbitration clauses on a pedestal by creating special interpretive rules for arbitration...

The separability of an arbitration agreement from the underlying contract is a well-established theory in commercial arbitration. This theory has been applied by courts and arbitral tribunal across the globe without any deviance. However, the position becomes complex when the question is...

Blockchain-based distributed ledgers (“Blockchain Ledgers”) provide an immutable, secure, and tamper evident alternative to conventional transactional modalities, one which also yields enhanced accountability, traceability, and transparency. The inherent benefits, and hence growing adoption...

Generally contracts of guarantee could be rightly perceived as tools used by parties in contracts to ensure that their interests in such agreement are secure, so that, in an event where there is a breach of such contract an action could be maintained against both the erring contracting party and...

Why are NonDisclosure Agreements not simply a matter of providing for the liberty interests of the parties to enter into contracts that they choose to make with each other? As a start, we want to offer an analysis of a cornerstone of such contracts, the prescription of agreed damages commonly...

This paper examines the UK Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Regulations (UTCCR)'s prohibition on clauses in consumer contracts that mandate dispute settlement in an arbitration tribunal as potentially unfair and oppressive as against consumers because it denies their right to civil...

The authoritative tribunal for the settlement of banking and financial disputes in most jurisdictions is the civil law court. However, the practices of the civil law court are repugnant to Islamic Commercial law and its judges lack the appropriate knowledgeable. More so, the jurisdiction of the...