I INTRODUCTION
The significant developments in US arbitration law during the past year include a US Supreme Court decision broadly endorsing judicial deference to arbitrators' rulings on important jurisdictional issues and continuing attempts by the courts to define the extent, if any, to which 'class' arbitrations, conducted by representative claimants on behalf of others on a collective basis, will find a place in US arbitral jurisprudence. Such cases arise most often in the context of consumer or franchisee cases that have few international aspects. But since US arbitration law is largely uniform in its application to both domestic and international cases, the effect of the resolution of these issues is likely to be significant for both.
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Originally published inThe International Arbitration Review, June 2014
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