Originally from World Arbitration And Mediation Review (WAMR)

In this session, Judge Brower and Professor Rogers will discuss the advantages and pitfalls of public lists, comments, and arbitrator ratings. Can ratings and comments in peer-reviewed publications assist in the selection of arbitrators? Should there be an online database of information about arbitrators, which provides information about issues such as the arbitrator’s casemanagement skills, the arbitrator’s approach with regard to jurisdiction, document discovery, the interpretation of contracts, the arbitrator’s intellectual orientation or even the arbitrator’s temperament?

DIETMAR PRAGER: Our next panel is about arbitrator transparency. The selection of an arbitrator, as we all know, is a very crucial step in the arbitration proceedings, and that holds true for the selection of the arbitrator by parties, it holds true for the selection of an arbitrator by an institution if it is an institutional appointment, and it holds true for the selection of an arbitrator by co-arbitrators.