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How Arbitration Works: Elkouri & Elkouri

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Elkouri is the penultimate arbitration manual. Having arbitrated, been an advocate, and taught arbitration, I feel confident in recommending this book for literally every area of arbitration. The book is, admittedly, geared toward labor law practice. However, the principles are the same in general arbitration. Labor arbitration and all other areas share a common history in the United States.

The book is clearly written, meticulously researched, and thoroughly indexed. I highly recommend it for arbitrators, advocates, and faculty.

This book is an essential for any arbitration advocate's library. I purchased it as an update from the fourth edition and I was amazed at how much more information and how many more topics are addressed in this book.

This is an excellent book. It gives enough detail and helps beginners as well as veterans. However it will not take the place of actual experience.

This text has been-- and remains-- the standard reference for those professionals presenting labor arbitration cases. The material is well organized and easy to use. There is no apparent bias and both labor and management representatives can rely on the information.

This is a better and more clearly written and indexed version of an old classic. It is essential reading for anyone doing labor arbitration as an advocate. A great secondary source. Better indexing and better tables than the prior editions Alan Miles Ruben, ed., and the American Bar Association labor and employment lw section did everyone a real service when they compiled this. Do not throw away your prior editions, as much of the commentary and most of the footnotes are not carried forward -- this book is not a replacement for the prior editions.

labor arbitrators criticize this book because it is so comprehensive. It is rather the 'the Bible' as it can be quoted for both sides of any proposition.

As a more accessible and readable book, St. Antoine, Theodore, ed., The Common Law of the Workplace: The Views of Arbitrators (National Acadeny of Arbitrators) is better.

But for what this book is -- the most comprehensive source on labor arbitration (although Bornstein, Gosline, Gereenbaum, Labor and Employment Arbitration (Nutshell Series.) is close, but far more expensive) -- it does what it does very well.

Dennis Nolan's Labor and Employment Arbitration (Nutshell Series.), Norman Brand's Discipline and Discharge in Arbitration, and Arnold Zack's Arbitrating discipline and discharge cases deserve mention.

We have purchased this book to help us with collective bargaining. It came highly recommended by someone that has used it for more than 10 years in preparing for collective bargaining and arbitration cases.