Originally from Journal of American Arbitration (JAA)

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I. INTRODUCTION 

A. The Arbitration Revolution 

B. Arbitration and the Contracts Casebooks 

C. Overview of the Article 

II. ARBITRATION IN THE LAW SCHOOL CURRICULUM 

III. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 

A. Review of the Casebooks 

B. Determination of the Leading Cases 

IV. RESEARCH CONCLUSIONS 

V. THE LEADING CASES 

A. And the Winners Are 

B. Contract Formation 

1.  Overview 

2.  Hill and Klocek 

3.  Itoh and Similar Cases 

4.  Material Alteration 

5.  Why Merchants Will Win the Arbitration War 

C. Unconscionability 

1.  Overview 

2.  Armendariz 

3.  Graham 

4.  Brower 

5.  The Fitzgibbon Approach 

D. Remedial Powers of Arbitrators 

1.  Overview 

2.  Garrity 

3.  Grayson-Robinson 

E. Labor Arbitration 

VI. THE ARBITRATION CASES IN THE CASEBOOKS 

A. Overview 

B. Precedent Value of Cases 

C. Leading Jurisdictions 

D. Gateway Arbitration 

E. The Anti-Arbitration Animus in the Academy 

VII. ARBITRATION IN THE CONTRACTS RESTATEMENT 

VIII.CONTRACTS AND ARBITRATION:  SOME SUGGESTIONS 

A. Arbitration as Statutory Law 

B. Division of Authority between Arbitrators and Courts 

1.  Arbitrability 

2.  The Separability Doctrine 

3.  Judicial Review of Arbitration Awards 

C. How Arbitration Works 

1.  Arbitration Procedure 

2.  Administering Institutions 

D. Commerce Clause Preemption of State Law 

E. Arbitration of Statutory Claims 

F. Employment Arbitration and Unconscionability 

IX. CONCLUSION 

X. APPENDIX:  THE CASEBOOKS