Class Arbitration is a form of multiparty Dispute resolution that has experienced substantial growth in the United States in recent years. While class litigation has been common in US courts for decades, the extension of the Class action mechanism into arbitration is unusual because the representative, quasi-compulsory nature of the class action case is in tension with the consensual basis of arbitration.

That position changed following the US Supreme Court’s confusing and controversial decision in Green Tree Financial Corp v Bazzle 539 U.S. 444 (2003) (Bazzle), which many courts and practitioners interpreted as giving a green light to class arbitration. The years since Bazzle witnessed a significant increase in the commencement of class arbitration cases, leading several of the major arbitral institutions in the US to issue specific rules for the administration of class arbitrations. In the last few years, however, the Supreme Court has decided several more cases that clarify