Part One: Arbitration in Evolution
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Professor Thomas Stipanowich, Pepperdine University School of Law, and Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution Research Fellow Zachary Ulrich, have published “Arbitration in Evolution: Current Practices and Perspectives of Experienced Arbitrators,” Columbia American Review of International Arbitration, Forthcoming ; Pepperdine University Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2014/30. The paper fully analyzes the data obtained in a groundbreaking 2013 survey regarding commercial arbitration practice in both U.S. and international disputes that 134 members of the College of Commercial Arbitrators (“CCA”) responded to. The following begins a series of blog posts highlighting various aspects of the authors’ publication.
In “Arbitration in Evolution: Current Practices and Perspectives of Experienced Arbitrators,” the authors first offer an introduction to the survey and acknowledge several caveats to the data garnered from it. After that, Professor Stipanowich and Mr. Ulrich provide a detailed survey group profile:
The CCA/Straus Institute Survey portrays a group of experienced arbitrators who by and large are “elders.” They are virtually all members of the legal profession—an apparent reflection of the dominance of lawyers in arbitration and the growing legal orientation of arbitration. They are overwhelmingly male, although there are signs that women, who are gradually moving up through the ranks of legal professionals, are increasingly developing successful careers as arbitrators. They tend to have considerable experience as arbitrators. Finally, although they depend on arbitral appointments to provide them with revenue or other tangible benefits, if only a continuing sense of purpose in retirement most of them think they don’t have enough work.
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