Andrew Finn and Pedro José Izquierdo authored a chapter on the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2010 decision in Stolt-Nielsen s.a. v. AnimalFeeds Int’l Corporation for the U.S. Supreme Court Precedents on Arbitration. The book outlines the most consequential arbitration related decisions of the Supreme Court in the last 50 years.
Andrew and Pedro José explore a crucial threshold question addressed by this case: can a party be deemed to have consented to class arbitration when the arbitration agreement is silent on the matter? The authors also discuss preliminary considerations on class actions, the scope of the Court’s decision, and the impact of Stolt-Nielsen in U.S. arbitral law and practice.
Preview: “The Impact of the Stolt-Nielsen Decision on Class-Action Arbitration”