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Professor Szalai is a nationally-known scholar focusing on arbitration and the Federal Arbitration Act. He has served as a commercial arbitrator in numerous cases, and he has written books, book chapters, and dozens of articles about arbitration. He is particularly interested in the historical development of arbitration practices and arbitration law. Working together with his students, he has written several amicus briefs regarding arbitration matters, and his work has been cited by courts of all levels and during Congressional hearings. He has also been interviewed and quoted in various media outlets, including the �鶹������ý Times, the Economist, USA Today, the LA Times, NPR’s Marketplace, Forbes, CNN, Money, Time, and many others.

Professor Szalai graduated from Yale University, double majoring in Economics and Classical Civilizations, and he received his law degree from Columbia University, where he was named a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. After graduating from law school, Professor Szalai practiced antitrust law in �鶹������ý City, and he then handled complex commercial disputes with a law firm in Miami, Florida, representing clients in connection with court proceedings and arbitrations matters across various jurisdictions.

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• BA, Yale University
• JD, Columbia University School of Law

• Civil Procedure Law 610A
• Commercial Arbitration Law and Practice Law 690B
• Contracts Law 601
• Professional Responsibility Law 625

• Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar

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Selected Law Review Articles, Essays, and Book Chapters:

• An Annotated Legislative History of the Federal Arbitration Act (Carolina Academic Press 2021)
• Outsourcing Justice: The Rise of Modern Arbitration Laws in America (Carolina Academic Press 2013)
• “The Birth of an Arbitration Nation,” in The Federal Arbitration Act: Successes, Failures, and a Roadmap for Reform, with Richard A. Bales & Jill I. Gross, eds., Cambridge Univ. Press (Fall 2024)
• “The Rise of Arbitration,” in Star Wars and Conflict Resolution, Noam Ebner &
• Jennifer Reynolds, eds., DRI Press (Fall 2022)
• “The Federal Arbitration Act in Its Infancy,” in Discussions in Dispute Resolution: The Formative Articles, Hinshaw, Schneider, and Cole, eds., Oxford Univ. Press (May
• 2021)
• A Centennial Birthday Wish: Remembering and Reigniting the Original Purpose of the Federal Arbitration Act, __ Harv. Negot. L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2025)
• Stranger Disputes: When Artifical Intelligence Turns Arbitration Upside Down, __ Pepp. Disp. Resol. L. J. __ (forthcoming 2025)
• A Uniform, National Body of Law to Govern the Enforcement of Arbitration Agreements, 14 Am. U. Bus. L. Rev. 557 (2025)
• Trouble, Trouble, Trouble: Ticketmaster, Taylor Swift, and Arbitration, 27 Vand. J. Ent. & Tech. L. 301 (2025)
• The Future of Arbitration in the United States: Textualism, a Tectonic Shift, and a Reshaping of the Civil Justice System, 25 Cardozo J. Conflict Resol. 13 (2024)

Dispute Resolution, Litigation, Professional Responsibility and Legal Ethics