A question periodically arises in the context of both international and domestic commercial arbitration, as to whether … are party to an arbitration agreement their ex facie preference will be for a one-stop adjudication by way of arbitration …-signatories can be deemed to be party to the arbitration agreement, and the conditioning of stay orders …

and significantly performed in the United States. The contract also contained an arbitration clause, requiring that any … disputes be resolved using Sharia law as implemented through an arbitration panel. When a dispute over the ownership of funds … Texas court refused to take up the matter, and effectively upheld the arbitration clause. This paper explores the increasing …

We provide the first study of varying use of arbitration clauses across contracts within the same firms. Using a sample … of 26 consumer contracts and 164 nonconsumer contracts from large public corporations, we compared arbitration clause use … agreements provided for mandatory arbitration but less than 10% of the firms' material nonconsumer, nonemployment contracts …

employment arbitration agreements subject to such clauses are enforceable (and the courts holding the arbitration agreements are … unenforceable are divided on which of several contract law doctrines apply). The majority of courts refuse to compel arbitration … adequate consideration and that arbitration agreements containing unilateral-modification clauses are enforceable. This article …

commercial disputes in China today. This book reveals how civil litigation, commercial arbitration, mediation, and their hybrid …, commercial arbitration in China today uniquely transcending the traditional socio-political constraints, its reform has developed …

facilitated by arbitration …

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 …

harvest and new beginnings. The season's double symbolism evokes rival visions of arbitration today. Some observers see a … golden age of cheap and cheerful proceedings as replaced by a costly complexity that fails arbitration's promise of coherent … and efficient dispute resolution. On closer scrutiny, however, arbitration reveals itself as having arrived at its autumn …