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Sep. 29, 2008
Messing With a Time-Tested Method
Maybe the many thousands who have voluntarily chosen arbitration over three millennia knew something our legislators don’t, writes Michael A.S. Newman.
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By Michael A.S. Newman Arbitration has an ancient history. Sir Edward Coke's report in Vynior's Case (1609) was the first published decision about arbitration, but even at that time arbitration was old, indeed older than English common law itself. It was old in the sixth century when the Angles and Saxons, progenitors of the common law, drove the Roman Britons up into the hills and marshes of Wales. It was old when Cicero spoke...
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