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What is Arbitration?

The Arbitration Process

Written by Jason Gordon

Updated at September 24th, 2021

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Table of Contents

What is Arbitration?How Does Arbitration Work?Discussion QuestionAcademic Research

What is Arbitration?

Arbitration is a form of ADR in which the parties choose to forgo litigation and solve their problems through a third-party decision-maker, known as an arbitrator. 

Next Article: Advantages of Arbitration Back to: ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION

How Does Arbitration Work?

The key characteristic of arbitration is that the parties are hiring one or more unrelated and unbiased third parties to decide the legal dispute. 

Basically, the arbitrator(s) acts as judge and jury in deciding the dispute. 

Unlike in mediation, the arbitrators are decision-makers. 

Arbitration yields a final resolution of the dispute in the form of an arbitrators award. 

The award generally consists of monetary damages, but it may include equitable remedies as necessary. 

Parties may generally enforce an arbitrator's award similarly to a judgment.

  • Note: It may surprise you to know that popular reality court television shows are actually arbitrations, as opposed to trials. The proceeding is made to look like a trial proceeding, with the arbitrator acting like (and even taking the title of) a judge.

Related Topics

  • What are the Advantages of Arbitration
  • Initiating Arbitration Voluntary and Statutorily Mandated Arbitration?
  • What is the procedure for carrying out an arbitration?
  • Rules governing the arbitration Federal Arbitration Act
  • What is the Judicial Review of Voluntary Arbitration?
  • What is the Judicial Review of Mandatory Arbitration?
  • What is Review under the Federal Arbitration Act?
  • How are Arbitration Awards enforced?

Discussion Question

How does the core principle behind arbitration compare to that of mediation? (Hint: Think about the role of a decision-maker versus that of a facilitator).

Academic Research

Chandrasekher, Andrea and Horton, David, Arbitration Nation: Data from Four Providers (August 24, 2018). California Law Review, Vol. 109, 2019, Forthcoming. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3238460 

Stipanowich, Thomas, Reflections on the State and Future of Commercial Arbitration: Challenges, Opportunities, Proposals (November 4, 2014). Columbia American Review of International Arbitration, Vol. 25, 2014; Pepperdine University Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2014/29. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2519084 

Strong, S.I., Past As Prologue: Arbitration as an Early Common Law Court (March 22, 2019). 57 Houston Law Review__ (2020, Forthcoming); University of Missouri School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2019-05. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3358638 

Horton, David, Arbitration About Arbitration (March 19, 2017). Stanford Law Review, Vol. 70, February 2018. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2937502 


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