Professor Park will explore the ripening of business arbitration through efforts to balance key adjudicatory goals such as due process, accurate decision-making and award enforceability.  As a prism through which to separate the various themes inherent in these competing procedural objectives, the lecture will examine several controverted arbitrations, including the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Stolt-Nielsen which in April restricted an arbitrator’s right to consolidate proceedings.   In decorticating the reasoning in these cases, Park hopes to trigger debate on how the maturing of arbitration, borne of procedural seeds sown in earlier decades, implicates a complex interaction between the arbitral tribunal’s specific duties and the broader legal framework for private dispute resolution.