Building the Civilization of Arbitration - Introduction

The U.S. Supreme Court\u27s work product has generated a large and growing arbitration bar. It also has finally begun to stimulate a greater volume of academic activity on the topic of arbitration. The work of legal practitioners and academics,along with the courts\u27 decisional law, are Building a Civilization of Arbitration that codifies advances and grapples with the controversial aspects of law-in-the making.The Penn State Dickinson School of Law takes great pride in welcoming a distinguished group of lawyers and law teachers to the pages of its Law Review.They are the leaders in the field of arbitration. Their contributions identify the settled law and evaluate it from a variety of analytical, intellectual, and institutional perspectives. The symposium investigates a wide variety of cutting-edge topics, ranging from recent landmark cases to investment arbitration and including the reform of the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA), the concept of private ordering in international commercial arbitration (ICA), empirical developments in consumer arbitration,third-party interests in arbitration, various provocative comparative law developments-the role of courts in national arbitration laws, a lucid evaluation of the Russian Federation\u27s statist concept of arbitration, an equally insightful comparison of Canadian and United States consumer arbitration, and an evaluation of an important recent book on ICA