Alternative Dispute Resolution: Arbitration

Updated Sept. 16, 2009.
Prepared by Cheryl Nyberg for Prof. Alan Kirtley's ADR Seminar.

This guide identifies major print and online resources for arbitration. See also the Gallagher guide on International Commercial Arbitration.

Access to LexisNexis and Westlaw is restricted to individual subscribers. Other databases are available to all Law Library visitors and to University of Washington faculty, students, and staff via the Off-Campus Access link. Other links go to free online sources on the Internet.

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Databases

In addition to sources described on the ADR page, contains the following arbitration material:

• American Arbitration Association guides, model clauses, publications, and rules
• arbitration awards and decisions
• treatises on arbitration in specialized settings (China, construction, employment, international, and maritime)

In addition to sources described on the ADR page, contains the following arbitration material:

• treatises on arbitration in specialized settings (labor and employment and securities)
• arbitration awards and decisions

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Websites

Information about arbitration in commercial, construction, consumer, employment, government, and international settings. Provides forms and related material on filing a case.

A subscription service from the International Chamber of Commerce; a free 2-week trial is available. Some free content, including news and the ICC International Court of Arbitration Bulletin.

A "worldwide non-governmental organization dedicated to promoting and developing arbitration, conciliation and other forms of international dispute resolution." Holds conferences in even-numbered years, publishes the Yearbook of Commercial Arbitration, and provides treaties and arbitration laws of many foreign countries.

Members provide arbitration and mediation services in numerous areas (automotive, commercial finance, construction, consumer, employment, healthcare, insurance, intellectual property, international, and real estate). Offers a weekly email newsletter and text of monthly and quarterly newsletters.

Founded in 1899, now with more than 100 member states. "[A]dministers arbitration, conciliation and fact finding in disputes involving various combinations of states, private parties, state entities, and intergovernmental organizations." Provides annual reports, cases, rules, treaties, and other documents.

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Books

Only a handful of ADR treatises and manuals are listed here. Some of these materials are also available on LexisNexis or Westlaw. For more books, search the Gallagher Law Library catalog by one of these subject headings:

• Arbitration agreements, Commercial
• Arbitration and award -- United States
• Arbitration, Industrial -- United States 

American Arbitration: Principles and Practice. Table of contents
KF9085.V66 2008 at Classified Stacks

Arbitrator's Handbook. Table of contents
LexisNexis: The Arbitrator's Handbook

Arbitration in a Nutshell. (A 2d ed. is expected in 2010). Publisher's description
KF9085.Z9C37 2007 at Reference Area

Domke on Commercial Arbitration, 3d ed. 2 vols updated twice a year. Table of contents
KF9085.D6 2003 at Reference Area & Westlaw: DCMLARB

Elkouri, How Arbitration Works, 6th ed. with 2008 supplement. Table of contents
KF3424.E53 2003 at Reference Area

Labor and Employment Arbitration in a Nutshell, 2d ed. Table of contents
KF3425.N638 2007 at Reference Area

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Articles

Locate law review and newsletter articles by using one or more of the following sources:

An index to US, UK, and Canadian law reviews, bar association journals, and legal magazines. Covers 1980-date.
Useful subject headings include:

• American Arbitration Association
• Arbitration Act
• Arbitrators
• Commercial Arbitration
• Commercial Arbitration Agreements
• Labor Arbitration
• Securities Arbitration

ADR Law Review Articles, Combined

 

JLR
A combined file with law reviews, bar journals, and continuing legal education materials.

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