Discusses the uses and abuses of past practice in arbitration in relation to the “plain meaning” rule of contract interpretation and ambiguous contract terms. Also addresses how past practices are…

Discussion of pre-hearing procedures, hearing procedures, and rules of evidence, with additional remarks regarding history and theory on these matters. [See also the transcript of the open discussion, 1966 page…

Discussion of hearing procedures and rules of evidence. [See also the transcript of the open discussion, 1966 page 305.]

A review and suggested synthesis of the Howlett/Meltzer debate over the extent to which arbitrators should consider the law in interpreting contracts. Moves from the obvious case where the contract…

Between Harry Shulman’s view that collective bargaining agreements are pacts adopted in complex industrial societies to set up systems for their governance, and the Williston view that a contract is…