Outsourcing justice : the rise of modern arbitration laws in America / Imre Stephen Szalai.
2013
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Title
Outsourcing justice : the rise of modern arbitration laws in America / Imre Stephen Szalai.
Published
Durham, North Carolina : Carolina Academic Press, [2013]
Copyright
©2013
Call Number
KF9085 .S98 2013
ISBN
9781611632026 (pbk.)
1611632021 (pbk.)
1611632021 (pbk.)
Description
xii, 284 pages ; 23 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)823388386
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-280) and index.
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Purchased from the income of the Murray Fund
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The Arthur W. Diamond Law Library
Purchased from the income of the Murray Fund
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
xi
ch. 1
Introduction
3
Arbitration
7
The Rise of Modern Arbitration Laws During the 1920s
9
Inspiration
12
Organization
13
ch. 2
The Cradle, the Chamber, and the Father: 1700s to 1911
15
New York and the Birth of the Chamber
16
The Chamber's Arbitration Committee
17
The Chamber's Court of Arbitration
19
New York and Its Court System at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: A Hotbed of Commercial Activity and a Burdensome, Complex Legal System
21
Charles Leopold Bernheimer, the Father of Commercial Arbitration
25
Pound's Speech to the American Bar Association
26
The Panic of 1907 and Bernheimer's Betrayal and Fascination with Arbitration
27
Bernheimer's Exploration and Discovery Period: 1907 through 1911
31
German Arbitration Law's Influence on Bernheimer
32
Bernheimer's Exploratory Efforts through the Chamber
34
Re-Establishment of the Chamber's Committee on Arbitration
37
ch. 3
Rebirth, War, and Victory: 1911 to 1920
41
Julius Henry Cohen, the Chamber's Counselor
41
1911: The Rebirth of the Chamber's Committee on Arbitration
42
1912-1913
48
1912: The Committee's First Formal Arbitration
48
The Committee's Early Educational Efforts
50
Drafting Model Arbitration Legislation
51
Tensions with the Legal Community
51
The Committee's Interest in International Commercial Arbitration
53
Grand Celebration at the Waldorf-Astoria
54
1914-1915
56
The New York Bar Establishes a Committee on Prevention of Unnecessary Litigation
57
The Chamber's 1914 Draft Legislation
58
The First World War
60
The Chamber's Cooperation with the New York Bar
62
The New York Constitutional Convention
63
1916-1917
65
Continued Cooperation Between the Chamber and the New York Bar
66
The Use of Arbitration in Mobilizing for the War
71
1918-1919
72
Joint Presentation at the Conference of State and Local Bar Associations
73
Cohen's Book, "Commercial Arbitration and the Law"
74
Armistice with Germany
76
Contract Cancellations
76
Further Attempts to Lobby the New York Legislature
80
1920: Victory in New York
83
Bernheimer's Summer Expeditions
88
Bernheimer's Motivations and Praise for Bernheimer
91
ch. 4
The National Campaign During the 1920s
97
Nationalization, Industrialization, Urbanization, and Progressivism
98
Prohibition
99
1920-1921
100
Bernheimer's Lobbying at the National Level
100
The Chamber's Outreach to the American Bar Association
103
Legal Developments Regarding the New York Arbitration
Statute
105
Bernheimer's Continued Lobbying for Federal and State
Legislation
107
Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover and His Support of Arbitration
108
The 1921 Draft of the Federal Bill
109
Department of Commerce Conference and Advisory Committee
110
1922-1923
112
Moses H. Grossman and a Threat to the Chamber
112
Bernheimer's Work Toward International Arbitration Treaties
117
The Arbitration Society of America
117
Bernheimer's Continued Cooperation with the American Bar
Association
118
The 1922 Draft of the Federal Bill
118
Bernheimer Meets with Secretary of State Charles Evan Hughes
120
The Chamber Approves of the 1922 Draft
121
Federal Lobbying: Bernheimer and Representatives from the
American Bar Association Go to Washington
122
Introduction of Arbitration Bills in Congress and Bernheimer's
Continued, Intensive Lobbying
126
Concerns Regarding Labor
131
The 1923 Congressional Hearing
135
"Hoover's" Letter
144
Bernheimer's Continued Lobbying
145
The End of the Sixty-Seventh Congress
150
The Labor Issue Revisited
152
New Jersey
154
Bernheimer's Continued Interest in International Arbitration Treaties
156
The 1923 Draft of the Federal Bill
158
Introduction of the Arbitration Bills in the Sixty-Eighth Congress
159
1924-1925
160
The 1924 Joint Congressional Hearing
160
The First World War
161
A Broader Movement for Procedural Reform
166
Progressivism
173
Bernheimer's Lobbying Efforts
179
The Federal Arbitration Bills before the First Session of the Sixty-Eighth Congress
180
The Federal Arbitration Bills before the Second Session of the Sixty-Eighth Congress
183
Celebration at Astor's Fifth Avenue Mansion
184
ch. 5
Concluding Observations Based on the History of the Reform Movement
187
The Federal Arbitration Act as Landmark Legislation
188
The Supreme Court Has Erred When Interpreting the Federal Arbitration Act
191
Employment Arbitration
191
Consumer Arbitration
192
A New Age of Reform for America's Arbitration Laws?
199
Notes
203
Chapter 1
203
Chapter 2
209
Chapter 3
219
Chapter 4
240
Chapter 5
276
Index
281