Panel No. 3: Contemporary and Critical Views of Arbitration

Given the pre-emptive effect of the FAA, do state laws of arbitration have any but a subservient function? How do regulatory agencies assess and can their regulations control the FAA? The panelists will explore controversies that are currently taking place in reinsurance arbitration; whether the Supreme Court\u27s invitation in Hall Street Associates to employ different standards of review evidences a skepticism of arbitration that threatens to undercut the uniform edifice of arbitration that the Supreme Court has, to date, constructed; and, finally, whether the New York arbitration convention support or dissent from the substantive rules of the FAA