The CCA-Straus Institute Survey on Arbitration Practice, one of the Straus Institute’s three recent surveys under the Theory-to-Practice Research Project, consisted of 65 multiple-choice and short-answer questions on respondents’ arbitration experiences and opinions on arbitration practices and the future of the arbitration field-at-large.

According to commentator Rachel Maddow in her book “Drift,” the way the United States goes to war has gradually become more secretive and less democratic. She observes that in the last half century, the decision to go to war has become too easy.

The Straus Institute’s Theory-to-Practice Research Project was begun in 2013 as an ongoing initiative aimed at expanding our knowledge of dispute resolution practices; understanding the perspectives of mediators, arbitrators, judges, corporate counsel and legal advocates; and garnering other empirical information regarding dispute resolution processes and participants’ judgments, decisions and choices.

Thomas J. Stipanowich, Academic Director of the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution, William H. Webster Chair in Dispute Resolution, and Professor of Law at the Pepperdine University School of Law, and Zachary P. Ulrich, Research Fellow at the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution, have published Commercial Arbitration and Settlement: Empirical Insights into the Roles Arbitrators Play, 6 Penn State Yearbook on Arbitration and Mediation 1 (2014); Pepperdine University Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2014/20.