Shortly after the CPR Institute's Annual Meeting early this year, IDN host Mike McIlwrath sat down for a discussion on the future of U.S. arbitration with Thomas J. Stipanowich, academic director of the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution, at the Pepperdine University School of Law, in Malibu, Calif. Tom and Mike discuss in detail how domestic arbitration can be improved with the American College of Commercial Arbitrators' 2009 protocols for expeditious cost-effective commercial arbitration.