Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 The Core Values of Arbitration
- 2 Common Legal Issues in American Arbitration Law
- 3 The Appropriate Role of State Law in the Federal Arbitration System: Choice and Preemption
- 4 Interstate Arbitration: Chapter 1 of the Federal Arbitration Act
- 5 Consumer Arbitration
- 6 International Commercial Arbitration: Implementing the New York Convention
- 7 Tension Points: Where the Authors Disagree
- Appendices
- Index
7 - Tension Points: Where the Authors Disagree
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 November 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 The Core Values of Arbitration
- 2 Common Legal Issues in American Arbitration Law
- 3 The Appropriate Role of State Law in the Federal Arbitration System: Choice and Preemption
- 4 Interstate Arbitration: Chapter 1 of the Federal Arbitration Act
- 5 Consumer Arbitration
- 6 International Commercial Arbitration: Implementing the New York Convention
- 7 Tension Points: Where the Authors Disagree
- Appendices
- Index
Summary
This chapter is written in a point-counterpoint format to provide a candid exchange of individual views among the four authors. Disagreement and tensions dominate this chapter.
COMMENTS OF PROFESSOR RICHARD SPEIDEL
SPEIDEL'S OPENING THOUGHTS
Speidel: I have constructed [in Chapter 6 and Appendix B] a legal regime for international commercial arbitration that is distanced from the regimes of interstate and intrastate arbitration law in the United States. This was intentional. The objective was to test the extent to which international commercial arbitration in the United States could be de-localized from interstate arbitration and national public policy even though the place of arbitration was in the United State and judicial proceedings were conducted in federal district courts. The conclusion was that, under the Convention, de-localized theory is alive and well in the courts, but its scope and consistent implementation requires a revised Chapter 2 of the FAA. In short, I have drafted a new Convention Act.
The distance is, of course, somewhat artificial. There are commonalities in both the concept of arbitration and the legal issues that arise in any arbitration. One wonders why a basic arbitration statute can't be drafted that covers international, interstate, and intrastate arbitration. Why perpetuate three legal regimes? Apart from the politics of federalism, what can possibly justify the cost and confusion of (at least) three different sets of arbitration law?
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- Arbitration Law in AmericaA Critical Assessment, pp. 308 - 344Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2006