Dutenhaver, Katheryn M.

Sklar, Stanley P.

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DePaul Business and Commercial Law Journal Volume 7 Issue 3 Spring 2009: Symposium - Winds of Change: Solutions to Causes of Dissatisfaction with Arbitration Article 2 Foreword - Winds of Change: Solutions to Causes of Dissatisfaction with Arbitration Katheryn M. Dutenhaver Stanley P. Sklar Follow this and additional works at: https://via.library.depaul.edu/bclj Recommended Citation Katheryn M. Dutenhaver & Stanley P. Sklar, Foreword - Winds of Change: Solutions to Causes of Dissatisfaction with Arbitration, 7 DePaul Bus. & Com. L.J. 381 (2009) Available at: https://via.library.depaul.edu/bclj/vol7/iss3/2 This Front Matter is brought to you for free and open access by the College of Law at Via Sapientiae. It has been accepted for inclusion in DePaul Business and Commercial Law Journal by an authorized editor of Via Sapientiae. For more information, please contact digitalservices@depaul.edu. Winds of Change: Solutions to Causes ofDissatisfaction with ArbitrationDePaul Arbitration Symposium-March 5 & 6, 2009Sponsored by The DePaul UniversityCollege of Law Center for Dispute ResolutionKatheryn M. Dutenhaver*& Stanley P. Sklar**For decades commercial arbitration has been recommended fre-quently by lawyers facing the prospects of court calendars that set trialdates years after filing and potentially leave to lay juries the responsi-bility for dealing with highly complex factual issues. For these andother reasons, commercial arbitration as a private dispute resolutionprocess has been used successfully by corporations and business orga-nizations in thousands of cases. Recently however, arbitration hascome under vigorous attack in court opinions, proposed legislation,articles in the public print media and academic journals. As thereseems to be a substantial amount of confusion in the underlying think-ing of much of the criticism, the reasoned responses generated by theparticipants in the DePaul Arbitration Symposium will be very usefulin the process of restoring commercial arbitration to its proper stand-ing. As you peruse the resumes of the persons who participated in thesymposium, you will see they have exactly the experience needed tobring together strategic thinking about the arbitration process, its cur-rent status, and suggested reforms to position it for the future.We want to thank particular individuals for their contributions tothe success of the DePaul Arbitration Symposium. Glen Weis-senberger, Dean of the College of Law, and Brian Havel, AssociateDean for Administration, were most encouraging as we brought to-gether the speakers, respondents, and moderators who participated inthe panels of the symposium and we planned for the publication of the* Professor Katheryn M. Dutenhaver is the Director of The DePaul University College ofLaw Center for Dispute Resolution.** Stanley P. Sklar is the Executive Director of Arbitration Studies in The DePaul UniversityCollege of Law Center for Dispute Resolution.382 DEPAUL BUSINESS & COMMERCIAL LAW JOURNALarticles prepared by each speaker in this Symposium issue of theDePaul Business & Commercial Law Journal.As the field of arbitration rests in the hands of persons from manyprofessional backgrounds, the DePaul Business & Commercial LawJournal, with its circulation to many professionals around the world, isthe ideal publication for these articles. We owe a tremendous debt ofgratitude to the Editorial Board for their decision to increase theirwork for the year by adding this Arbitration Symposium issue-Megan Bosau, Nick Hudalla, Tracy Schovain, Lee Christoff, CherylFrom, Chalet Braziel, Beth O'Connor, and Christine Fuchs. We ex-tend a special note of thanks to Megan Bosau, Editor-in-Chief, for thetime she gave so generously to the Arbitration Symposium and herguidance to the authors of these articles. With her extraordinary ef-forts, we were able to attain our goals. We also acknowledge with ap-preciation the work of Professor Margit Livingston, the facultyadvisor to the Journal.The symposium was created by the joint efforts of the members ofthe Planning Committee. We express our deep gratitude to the mem-bers of the Planning Committee for their extensive deliberationswhich brought this symposium from an initial concept to its final suc-cessful conclusion. The hope of the Planning Committee was that thesymposium would have a great impact on the commercial arbitrationprocess in America and others would continue to build on the ideasgenerated by our speakers, respondents, moderators and audience.The culmination of all of their contributions in this symposium issuemakes this possible. We hope you find enjoyment in reading yourcopy of this symposium issue and will be able to implement some ofthe ideas for the betterment of the commercial arbitration process.[Vol. 7:381

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