Reports of the death of arbitration have been greatly exaggerated. Such might be the response to the proliferation of premature obituaries following what has sometimes been regarded as a rather long illness.
After a promising birth out of commercial necessity, arbitration enjoyed a long and prosperous life until it succumbed to its lifelong tendency to sclerosis. Dogged by ill health and despite a number of treatments along the way, it finally fell victim to the birth of a new and vibrant panacea. It will be sadly missed.
