Preliminary issues -- Threshold issues for challenges to arbitration clauses -- The federal arbitration act and the preemption of state law -- Federal limits on the enforceability of arbitration requirements -- Formation of agreement to arbitrate -- Unconscionability and other contract law defenses to arbitration clauses -- Arbitration clause's applicability to particular claims or parties -- Waiver of the right to compel arbitration -- Arbitration of claims on a classwide basis -- Judicial review and effect of the arbitration award -- Creditor's use of arbitration to collect consumer debts -- Appendices.
