The American Influences on International Commercial Arbitration

1. Introduction; 2. The formation and transformation of the status of international and domestic arbitration in the United States; 3. Shifting paradigm: Wilko v. Swan, Scherk v. Alberto-Culver, and Mitsubishi v. Soler: crafting a level playing field; 4. The taking of evidence v. common law discovery; 5. The gathering of evidence v. common law discovery; 6. What has really happened? The effects of a trilogy examined; 7. The new unorthodox conception of common law discovery in international arbitration; 8. And now how do we avoid 28 U.S.C. Section 1782 in international commercial arbitration?; 9. Perjury and arbitration: the honor system where the arbitrators have the honor and the parties have the system; 10. Developments in the apportionment of jurisdiction between arbitrators and courts concerning the validity of a contract containing an arbitration clause, and transformations regarding the Severability Doctrine; 11. U.S. arbitration law and its dialogue with the New York Convention: the development of four issues; Appendix A. Duelos a Garrotazos; Appendix B. Selected cases; Appendix C. The New York convention, the Federal Arbitration Act, and 28 U.S.C. § 1782; Appendix D. Amendments to 28 U.S.C. § 1782; Appendix E. Selected rules of civil procedure; Appendix F. Geneva Convention of 1927; Appendix G. Selections from the legislative history of the Federal Arbitration Act.