The Law and Practice of Arbitration - 2nd Edition is the first comprehensive treatise about the development and practice of arbitration law in the United States. It addresses in detail the recourse to arbitration in domestic matters employment, labor, consumer transactions, and business and its use in the resolution of international commercial claims. It covers all of the major subject areas in the field and provides practical advice as well as an easy-to-read, clear discussion of the relevant case law. It represents a masterful synthesis of the entire body of arbitration law. This new work contains some fourteen chapters. It discusses basic concepts and doctrines, the FAA, freedom of contract in arbitration, arbitrability, the enforcement of awards, the use of arbitration in consumer and employment matters, institutional arbitration, and the drafting of arbitration agreements. It speaks of the federalization of the law and growing judicial objections to the use of adhesionary arbitration agreements in the consumer context. It also provides a thorough and insightful introduction to international commercial arbitration from an American perspective. It is fully up-to-date with the latest rulings of the U.S. Supreme Court on arbitration, including Bazzle. It also provides a thorough and insightful treatment on international commercial arbitration from an American perspective. The Second Edition represents a thoroughly updated and substantially revised account of U.S. arbitration law. The author collected and evaluated several hundred cases in redoing the book. The Introduction has been completely rewritten; it provides a current overview of recent shifts in the law. Several chapters, in particular, those relating to the enforcement of awards, consumer transactions, and employment arbitration have been refashioned in light of the contemporary case law. "Opt-in" provisions, the action to clarify awards, and the possible imposition of sanctions for frivolous appeal