Part II Legal Framework: Courts, Statutes and Treaties, A Arbitral Jurisdiction, 1 Who Decides What? A Comment on Lesotho Highlands

For pure intellectual challenge, few endeavors match the task of setting principled standards to distinguish an arbitrator’s good faith mistakes from an excess of authority. In bargaining for out-of-court dispute resolution, parties to arbitration agreements commit themselves to respect the result regardless of who wins. The award is intended to be final even if one side thinks that the arbitrator got it wrong. Arbitration is a consensual process, however, unfolding within an enclosure created by the contract and applicable arbitration law. The litigants accept...