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The use of commercial arbitration can be regarded as an alternative to litigation. I will in this paper report some results of a comparative study of this form of dispute settlement. This study has been carried out since the end of the sixties in Sweden and Denmark by a team of scholars from the two countries mentioned (1)*.
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The study has been conducted by Professor P.O. Bolding, University of Lund, Sweden, Professor Ole Lando and Associate Professor Britt-Mari Blegvad, both of, Copenhagen School of Economics. The research is supported by the Tri-Centennial Fund of the Bank of Sweden and the Danish Social Science Research Council. For a more detailed account of the legal background, the methodological aspects as well as the process of problem formulation, see the first part of the research report: B-M Blegvad, P.O. Bolding, Ole Lando in cooperation with K. Gamst-Nielsen: Arbitration as a means of solving conflicts, New Social Science Monographs E6, Kobenhaven 1973.
H.A. Smith: “Commercial Arbitration at the American Arbitration Association”, The Arbitration Journal 1., 1956, pp. 1-20. S. Mentshikoff: “Commercial Arbitration”, Columbia Law Review, Vol. 61, 1961, pp. 846-869. S. Lazarus et al.: Resolving Business Disputes, New York, 1965, pp. 208. R.L. Bonn: “The Predictability of Nonlegalistic Adjudication”, Law and Society Review, Vol. 6, No. 4, pp. 563-579. Ibidem: “Arbitration: An Alternative System for Handling Contract Related Disputes: Administrative Science Quarterly, June 1972, pp. 254-264. K. Kohler: Die moderne Praxis des Schiedsgerichtswesens in der Wirtschaft, Berlin, 1967, pp. 154.
For a further discussion of the legal basis of commercial arbitration in Sweden and Denmark, see B-M Blegvad, P.O. Bolding, and Ole Lando in cooperation with K. GamstNielsen: op. cit., Chapter 2, Kobenhavn, 1973.
The Swedish and Danish legal systems have rather similar structures. The Swedish and Danish societies also have many traits in common. Hence, a comparison of arbitration in the two countries might be particularly meaningful.
For a further discussion of this process, see B-M Blegvad, P.O. Bolding, and Ole Lando in cooperation with K. Gamst-Nielsen: op. cit., Chapter 1, Kobenhavn, 1973.
See also V. Aubert (ed.): Sociology of Law, Penguin Modern Sociology Readings, 1969, introduction p. 11. T. Eckhoff: Sociology of Law, Penguin Modern Sociology Readings, 1969, introduction p. 11. T. Eckhoff: “Juss og Samfunnsforskning”, in H. Hessler (ed.) Festskrift till Per Olof Elelöf, Uppsala, 1972, p. 208.
For a preliminary analysis of this question, see B-M. Blegvad, P.O. Bolding, Ole Lando in cooperation with K. Gamst-Nielsen: op. cit., 1973, p. 95 - 107.
Aubert: “Two Types of Conflict and of Conflict Resolution”. The Journal of Conflict Resolution, Vol. VII, 1963, pp. 26 - 42.
See also Eckhoff: “The Mediator, the Judge, and the Administrator” in Blegvad (ed.): Contributions to the Sociology of Law, Copenhagen, 1966, pp. 148 - 173.
Aubert: “Law as a Way of Resolving Conflicts. The Case of a Small Industrialized Society”, pp. 282-304 in Nader, L. (ed.): Law in Culture and Society, Aldine Publishing Company, 1969; and Rättssociologi, Stockholm, 1972, Chapter 6. P.O. Bolding: Juridik och Samhällsdebatt (Law and Debate in Society), Almquist and Wiksell, Uppsala, 1968. T. Eckhoff: op. cit., 1966, p. 163. Strömholm: “Rättsutveckling pa annat sätt in genom lagstiftning” in Proceedings of the 25th Conference of Nordic Jurists, Oslo, 1969.
V. Aubert: op. cit., 1969, p. 293, See also T. Eckhoff: op. cit., 1969, p. 163.
Strömholm: op. cit., 1969, pp 37 and 41.
Strömholm: op. cit., 1969, p. 41.
P.O. Bolding: op. cit., 1968, pp. 85-87.
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Blegvad, BM. (1976). The Choice Between Litigation and Arbitration. In: Friedman, L.M., Rehbinder, M. (eds) Zur Soziologie des Gerichtsverfahrens (Sociology of the Judicial Process). Jahrbuch für Rechtssoziologie und Rechtstheorie, vol 4. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-96982-8_10
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