Awarding no interest on back pay has been the rule; paying interest the exception. This article examines the rationale for each, and the growing trend of awarding interest.

Professor Snow offers a theory for fashioning arbitration remedies in the face of contractual silence: reliance upon “gap-fillers,” (meaning norms embedded in arbitral jurisprudence, e.g. arbitration awards) and as indicated “in the expectations, customs and practices of particular industries.” Attorneys’ fees, punitive awards, front pay, and the payment of interest are discussed.

Authors Mittenthal and Bloch examine how arbitrators, in performing their interpretive function, find implied obligations that are nowhere mentioned in the contract. Arbitrators embrace those implications that help to preserve the parties’ bargain and reject those that alter or enlarge it. Author Macey agrees that preserving the parties’ bargain should be a guiding concern, but …

A discussion of the limits on an arbitrator’s authority to fix damages, and of the methods of computing damages including compensatory, punitive and liquidated damages.