Abstract
Once men begin to live and trade together, inevitably various forms of adjudication emerge. It follows from the above that the submission of disputes to independent adjudication is a form of ordering human society as old as society itself. Why did arbitration develop as a means of alternative dispute resolution? In order to answer this question, one needs look at the history of arbitration.
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Lord Parker of Waddington (1959, pp. 5–12).
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Lord Parker of Waddington (1959, pp. 12–14).
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Lord Parker of Waddington (1959, pp. 18–24).
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Merkin (2000, pp. 1–10).
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Folberg et al. (2005, p. 454).
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Bruner and O’Connor Jr (2002, Chap. 20, § 20:2).
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Guyon (1995, pp. 7–8).
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Devolvé (1982).
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Rützel et al. (2005, p. 110).
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Brunet et al. (2006, p. 25).
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Bonn (1972, p. 257).
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Deck and Farmer (2007, p. 549).
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Folberg et al. (2005, pp. 223–231).
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See Township of Aberdeen v Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, 669 A.2d 291 (N.J.S. Ct., App. Div. 1996) where the arbitral award rendered was struck down by the Court on the basis that the arbitrator had improperly relied on information gained during the course of mediation and not presented during the arbitration process; Folberg et al. (2005, pp. 643–646).
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Folberg et al. (2005, pp. 307–414).
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Zamboni (2003, pp. 178–179).
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Noussia, K. (2010). The History, Importance and Modern Use of Arbitration. In: Confidentiality in International Commercial Arbitration. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10224-0_2
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