Originally from Journal of American Arbitration (JAA)

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I. INTRODUCTION 

II. TOWARD HYBRID ADJUDICATION:  A NEED FOR MEANINGFUL JUDICIAL REVIEW OF ARBITRAL AWARDS 

A. Statutory and Nonstatutory Review of Arbitral Awards 

B. Arbitration as a Substitute for Litigation:  Is “Rough Justice” Enough? 

III. CONTRACTUAL EXPANSION OF JUDICIAL REVIEW OF ARBITRATION AWARDS 

A. The Party Autonomy Approach 

B. The Institutional Integrity Approach 

IV. ANALYSIS 

A. The FAA:  Circumscribing the Role of the Reviewing Court 

B. The Supreme Court and the Federal Policy Favoring Arbitration 

V. A PROPOSAL 

VI. CONCLUSION 

“[T]he legal order must be flexible as well as stable.  It must be overhauled continually and refitted continually to the changes in the actual life which it is to govern.”