Arbitrability - The quest ion of whether an issue is properly subject to arbitration

Common Law - Law made by judges, rather than embodied in statutes

Conflict of Interest - A situation in which an arbitrator has a personal or financial relationship to one of the parties that might tend to bias her/his decisions

Deferral - When a tribunal, agency or court, agrees to let arbitration resolve an issue which it might otherwise decide

Enjoin - Issue an injunction, a court order

Procedural Arbitrability - When the challenge to the jurisdiction of the arbitrator is based on an allegation that some part of the grievance procedure has not been followed properly

Substantive Arbitrability - When the challenge to the jurisdiction of the arbitrator is based on an allegation that the issue in dispute is itself not subject to arbitration