Nebraska Law Review Volume 91 | Issue 3 Article 4 2013 It Is Time the Law Begins to Protect Consumers from Significantly One-Sided Arbitration Clauses Within Contracts of Adhesion Anjanette Raymond Indiana University,
[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/nlr Recommended Citation Anjanette Raymond, It Is Time the Law Begins to Protect Consumers from Significantly One-Sided Arbitration Clauses Within Contracts of Adhesion, 91 Neb. L. Rev. (2013) Available at: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/nlr/vol91/iss3/4 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Law, College of at DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. It has been accepted for inclusion in Nebraska Law Review by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. Anjanette H. Raymond* It Is Time the Law Begins to Protect Consumers from Significantly One- Sided Arbitration Clauses Within Contracts of Adhesion TABLE OF CONTENTS I. Introduction .......................................... 666 II. Background ........................................... 667 A. Expanding Beyond the Original Scope of the FAA . 667 B. The FAA as Creating a Federal Preemption ........ 671 C. The Potential Limits Within Section 2 of the FAA Should Be Rejected ................................ 681 D. The Arbitration Fairness Act of 2011 Is Not the Answer ........................................... 683 E. What Is Being Done? .............................. 692 III. Solutions ............................................. 695 A. Are All Parties Facing Arbitration Clauses in Contracts of Adhesion Created Equal? ............. 697 B. What Protections Are Really Necessary and for Whom?............................................ 699 C. How Should Those Protections Be Accomplished? . 701 IV. Conclusion ............................................ 705 I. INTRODUCTION To pretend that arbitration has not evolved into different animals of the same species is to not fully appreciate the nuances that exist within the system.