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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….

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Arbitral implications: Hearing the sounds of silence

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…

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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…

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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….

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