Background
Macneil, Ian Roderick was born on June 20, 1929 in New York City. Son of Robert Lister and Kathleen Gertrude (Metcalf) Macneil.
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With an overburdened and cumbersome system of court litigation, arbitration is becoming an increasingly attractive means of settling disputes. Government enforcement of arbitration agreements and awards is, however, rife with tensions. Among them are tensions between freedom of contract and the need to protect the weak or ill-informed, between the protections of judicial process and the efficiency and responsiveness of more informal justice, between the federal government and the states. Macneil examines the history of the American arbitration law that deals with these and other tensions. He analyzes the personalities and forces that animated the passing of the United States Arbitration Act of 1925, and its later revolutionizing by the Supreme Court. Macneil also discusses how distorted perceptions of arbitration history in turn distort current law.
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Macneil, Ian Roderick was born on June 20, 1929 in New York City. Son of Robert Lister and Kathleen Gertrude (Metcalf) Macneil.
Bachelor magna cum laude, University Vermont, 1950. Bachelor of Laws magna cum laude, Harvard University, 1955.
Law clerk Honorary Peter Woodbury, 1955-1956. Associate Sulloway Hollis Godfrey & Soden, Concord, New Hampshire, 1956-1959. Member faculty Cornell University Law School, Ithaca, New York, 1959-1972, 74-80, Ingersoll professor law, 1976-1980.
Wigmore professor law Northwestern University School Law, Chicago, 1980-1999, professor emeritus, 1999—2010. Visiting professor University East Africa, 1965-1967, Duke University, 1971-1972. Professor law, member Institute Advanced Studies, University Virginia, 1972-1974.
Visiting fellow Centre for Socio-legal Studies and Wolfson College, Oxford University, 1979. Honorary visiting fellow faculty law University Edinburgh, 1979, 87. Rosenthal lecturer Northwestern University School Law, 1979.
Braucher visiting professor Harvard University, 1988-1989.
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Served with United States Army, 1951-1953. Fellow Royal Society Antiquaries (Scotland). Member American Bar Association, American Law Institute, N.H. Bar Association, Canada Association Law Teachers, Society Public Teachers Law, Standing Council Scottish Chiefs.
Married Nancy Carol Wilson, March 29, 1952. Children: Roderick, Jennifer, Duncan (deceased), Andrew.