The Best Arbitration Books for Beginners

Labor-management professionals, such as union representatives and human resource specialists in unionized industries, who seek to understand the nuts and bolts of labor arbitration practice and want to improve their skills in arbitration hearings will find this practical guide accessible and full of tips for presenting a winning case at arbitration.Unlike other books on the subject of labor arbitration, this book provides practical guidance in an approachable format along with thought-provoking ideas for making arbitration more efficient and effective.

The reader will quickly gain the knowledge and confidence they need to present and win their case.

Arbitration of International Disputes in New York by Dr. Peter Bekker is the first, and most up-to-date, book about international arbitration in New York written by a single author with a dual background as a law professor and a practitioner. The book celebrates New York as a leading hub for international arbitration. It is designed to serve as both an introductory source-book and a toolkit for crafting arbitration clauses that are meant to be enforceable and supportive of arbitration of international business disputes in New York.

It is intended to be of practical value to practicing lawyers, including attorneys, in-house corporate counsel, and adjudicators (arbitrators and judges), interested or involved in international arbitration and related proceedings in New York. It is not designed to be an all-encompassing treatise describing federal or New York arbitration law in exhaustive detail. The first part of the book, comprising ten compact chapters, describes the salient points of international arbitration in New York, presented in a sequence to facilitate readers’ ease of understanding. The discussion of topics has been condensed and deliberately kept straightforward so as not to confuse the reader for whom this book may be an initial introduction to international arbitration. The book includes extensive references to the leading cases and literature sources. The second part is dedicated to contractual arbitration clauses for use in the arbitration of international disputes in New York. It includes a brief discussion of various clause elements (divided into core/highly-recommended/facultative categories) as well as defective clauses, and provides an explanation of their shortcomings, along with suggested language designed to make them effective, the objective being to help the reader avoid common mistakes in drafting that could threaten to make an arbitration clause ineffective or even unenforceable in practice.

Employment Arbitration provides practical commentary and analysis in the area of employment arbitration, for both the novice and the seasoned practitioner. It contains a comprehensive overview of the major developments in this emerging field and it supplies the reader with analysis, perspective, and commentary. The cases selected for presentation and analysis are the most significant decided to date. The case summaries are comprehensive, cogent, and objectively rendered. In addition, they contain critical evaluations which can be of use in developing litigation strategy or advising clients on business practices.

The volume also describes and assesses political developments - proposed legislation and lobbying efforts - that address or which could affect this new use of arbitration. Employment Arbitrationemphasizes a number of issues that are particularly controversial in the area: the enforceability of employer-imposed arbitration agreements, the award of attorney’s fees and punitive damages, and the review of arbitral determinations on civil rights claims. Finally, the volume provides the reader with model employment arbitration agreements that are accompanied by extensive commentary and explanations.