Drafting Dispute Resolution Clauses
A Reading List*

Aibel, Howard J. & George H. Friedman, "Drafting Dispute Resolution Clauses in Complex Business Transactions," 51:1 Dispute Resolution Journal 17 (1996).

Ball Markham, "Just Do It-Drafting the Arbitration Clause in an International Agreement," 10 Journal of International Arbitration 4 (December 1993), pp. 29-44.

Barist, Jeffrey, Commercial Arbitration Law and Clauses: A Drafter''s Guide (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall Law and Business, 1994).

Bernardini, Piero, "The Arbitration Clause of an International Contract," 9 journal of International Arbitration 2 (June l992),pp. 45-60.

Blackford, Jason C., "Arbitration Provisions For Business Contracts," 48 Arbitration Journal 3 (September 1993), pp. 47-52.

Blessing, Marc, The Arbitration Agreement (Basil, Switzerland: Association Suisse De L''Arbitrage, ASA Special Series No. 8, 1994).

Bond, Stephen R., "How to Draft an Arbitration Clause," 42/43 Revue Hellenique De Droit International (1989/1990), pp. 201-2 15.

Butler, James R. Jr., Arbitration in Banking'' State of the Art (Philadelphia, PA: Robert Morris Associates, 1988).

Carter, James H., "Dispute Resolution and International Agreements," 4 International Quarterly 2 (April 1992), pp. 100-130.

Chernick, Richard, and Ellen Peck, "ADR Clauses in Fee and Retainer Agreements," 2 ADR Currents 1 (Winter 1996/1997), pp. 18-23.

Coffey, Patrick S., and Karen M. Dorff, "Drafting the Arbitration Agreement," Arbitration Practice 1989 (Chicago: the Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education, 1989) 5-1-5-15.

Gray, Whitmore, "Drafting the Dispute Resolution Clause ,"in Richard J. Medalie, editor, Commercial Arbitration for the 1990s (Chicago: the American Bar Association Section of Litigation, 1991), pp. 140-164.

Heilbron, David M., "The Arbitration Clause, the Preliminary Conference and the Big Case," 45 Arbitration Journal 2 (June 1990), pp. 38-44.

Hoellering, Michael F., "How to Draft an AAA Arbitration Clause," 7 ICSID Review 1 (Spring 1992), pp. 141-152. Also found in 47 Arbitration Journal 1 (March 1992), pp. 44-50.

Honiger, Berthold H., Commercial Arbitration Handbook (Carlsbad, CA: Parker-Griffin, 1990).

Hunter, Martin, Jan Paulsson, Nigel Rawding and Alan Redfern, The Freshfields Guide to Arbitration and ADR (Deventer, The Netherlands: Kluwer Law and Taxation Publishers, 1993).

Kreindler, Donald L., "Write Your Own Remedy," 10 Litigation 1 (Fall 1983), pp. 31-32.
McWilliams, Joan H., "ADR Contract Clauses," 18 Colorado Lawyer 5 (May 1989), pp. 867-870.

Meyerson, Bruce E., and Corinne Cooper, editors, A Drafters Guide to Alternative Dispute Resolution (Chicago: the American Bar Association, 1991).

Miller, Bradley S., "How to Draft Real Estate Arbitration Clauses," 10 The Practical Real Estate Lawyer 1 (January 1994), pp. 27-52.

Murphy, Ewell E. Jr., "The Four Languages of Charles V (or How to Draft a Transnational Arbitration Clause) ," 4 International Quarterly 4 (October 1992), pp. 1-30.

Rodman, Robert M., "ADR Contract Clauses," in John H. Wilkinson, editor, Donovan Leisure Newton & Irvine ADR Practice Book (New York: John Wiley, 1990, with a 1997 cumulative supplement current to July 1, 1996), pp. 241-291.

Rogers, Andrew, and Rachel Launders, "Separability - The Indestructible Arbitration Clause," 10 Arbitration International 1 (1994), pp. 77-90.

Rome, Donald Lee, "A New Approach to ADR for the Financial Services Industry," 2 ADR Currents 2 (Spring 1997), pp. 1, 11-16.

Slate, William K. III, "ADR for Business Disputes," Metropolitan Corporate Counsel (August 1995), p. 31.

Sochynsky, Yaroslav and Mariah Baird, "Tailoring the Arbitration Clause: Accommodating Client Needs in Real Estate and Other Transactions," 21 Golden Gate University Law Review 2 (Summer 1991), pp. 281-305.

Taylor, Robert G., and Buckner Hinkle, Jr., "How to Use ADR Clauses with Standard Form Construction Industry Contracts," 15 Construction Lawyer 2 (April 1995), pp. 42-57. Also found in 13 International Construction Law Review 1 (January 1996), pp. 56-88.
"Voluntary Commercial Arbitration: Carefully Constructed Contract Clauses Can Cure Countless Conflicts-Comments," 25 John Marshall Law Review 2 (Winter 1992), pp. 309-347.

Weinberg, Mrily Orkin, "Corporate Counsel''s Primer on Commercial Arbitration," in

William A. Hancock, editor, Corporate Counsel''s Guide to Alternative Dispute Resolution Techniques (Chesterland, OH: Business Laws 1994) 2,000-2,109.

Wilner, Gabriel M., Domke on Commercial Arbitration (the Law and Practice of Commercial Arbitration), the revised edition of 1984 with a 1996 cumulative supplement published in August 1996.

* Compiled by Laura Ferris Brown, Chief Librarian, the Library and Information Center on the Resolution of Disputes of the American Arbitration Association.