The Reverend Zen Master Soyen Shaku was the first Zen Buddhist Abbot to tour the United States in 1905-6.

** Soyen Shaku, Zen Buddhist master ( d. 1919 )

* 1893: The World Parliament of Religions meets in Chicago, Illinois ; Anagarika Dharmapala and Soyen Shaku attend.

In 1893 Soyen Shaku was one of four priests and two laymen, representing Rinzai Zen, Jodo Shinshu, Nichirin, Tendai, and Esoteric schools, composing the Japanese delegation that participated in the World Parliament of Religions in Chicago organized by John Henry Barrows and Paul Carus.

A year later he began Zen study with Sogaku Shaku, a disciple of the Rinzai Zen Buddhist Abbot Soyen Shaku.

The Buddhist name Daisetsu, meaning " Great Humility ", the kanji of which can also mean " Greatly Clumsy ", was given to him by his Zen master Soen ( or Soyen ) Shaku.

Soyen Shaku ( 釈 宗演, January 10, 1860 – October 29, 1919, Kamakura, Japan ; written in modern Japanese Sōen Shaku or Kōgaku Sōen Shaku ) was the first Zen Buddhist master to teach in the United States.

Soyen Shaku was an exceptional Zen monk.

In 1905, Soyen Shaku returned to America as a guest of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Russell.

Soyen Shaku died peacefully on 29 October 1919 in Kamakura.

Suzuki, and fostering a lifelong working friendship with Buddhist Master, Soyen Shaku.

The next year Nyogen went to Kamakura to Engaku-ji where he studied Zen under Rinzai master Soyen Shaku.

Suzuki was a lay student of Soyen Shaku.

In 1905 Soyen Shaku was asked by friends in the San Francisco, CA area to come and give talks and lectures on Buddhism.

In Golden Gate Park, Soyen Shaku set down his friend Nyogen's suitcase and said the following to him:

Soyen Shaku, the " First American Ancestor " of Zen, made the trip.

His influential students are better known than Rinzai school | Rinzai priest Soyen Shaku, perhaps the earliest Japanese to teach Buddhism in the United States.

In 1893, Soyen Shaku was invited to speak at the World Parliament of Religions held in Chicago.

The Rinzai Zen Buddhist master, Soyen Shaku, speaking to Americans at the beginning of the 20th century, discusses how in essence the idea of God is not absent from Buddhism, when understood as ultimate, true Reality:

In the Meiji era, Engaku-ji became the chief centre for Zen instruction in the Kantō region ; Kosen Roshi and Soyen Shaku were successively abbots in this period, and Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki was a student under them.

Subsequently, Shaku delivered " Arbitration Instead of War ".

Genealogy information is supplemented in Shaku Nihongi which quotes from the now lost text Jōgūki ( 7th century ).

Shaku was followed by Nyogen Senzaki, a young monk from Shaku's home temple in Japan.

Suzuki was introduced to Carus by Soen Shaku, who met him at the World Parliament of Religions held in Chicago in 1893.

In 1893 Shaku was one of four priests and two laymen, representing Rinzai Zen, Jōdo Shinshū, Nichirin, Tendai, and Esoteric schools, composing the Japanese delegation that participated in the World Parliament of Religions in Chicago organized by John Henry Barrows and Paul Carus.

Soyen served as a chaplain to the Japanese army during the Russo-Japanese War, to defend Japan from the colonial Russia.

On June 21, 2006, Belgium's Constitutional Court, the Court of Arbitration of Belgium annulled parts of the modified law which came in place of the Belgian War Crimes Law.

On 30 June 1504 Kitzbühel became a part of Tyrol permanently: the Emperor Maximilian reserved to himself the hitherto Landshut offices ( Ämter ) of Kitzbühel, Kufstein and Rattenberg as a part of his Cologne Arbitration ( Kölner Schiedsspruch ), that had ended the Landshut War of Succession.

For example, in 1872, a Board of Arbitration was convened in Switzerland to settle a dispute between the United States and Britain over losses of merchant ships during the American Civil War.

The National Arbitration and Peace Congress of 1907, presided over by Andrew Carnegie, had addressed this issue years earlier alluding to not only the Second World War but also the First:

He was a member of the International Court of Arbitration ( The Hague, 1959 – 60 ), chairman of the Commission on Students Problems and Welfare ( 1964 ), member of Law Reforms Commission ( 1967 ), member of War Enquiry Commission ( 1972 ), member of United Nations Committee on Crime Prevention and Control ( 1972 – 1973 ), and chairman of the Council of Islamic Ideology, Pakistan ( 1974 – 1977 ).

The arms race at both sides of the border after the Argentine refusal of the decision of the Court of Arbitration caused huge costs for the economy of the countries, until after the Falklands War:

Croatia is asking that the islands be returned because of the Badinter Arbitration Committee decision from 1991 that all internal borders between Yugoslav republics have become international.

In the 2011 court case AT & T Mobility v. Concepcion, the U. S. Supreme Court ruled in a 5-4 decision that the Federal Arbitration Act of 1925 preempts state laws that prohibit contracts from disallowing class action lawsuits, which will make it more difficult for consumers to file class action lawsuits.

Eventually, after the overthrow of Slobodan Milošević from power as president of the federation in 2000, the country rescinded those aspirations and accepted the opinion of Badinter Arbitration Committee about shared succession, and reapplied for and gained UN membership on November 2, 2000.

Following the darbepoetin scandal, the International Olympic Committee ( IOC ) initially let Mühlegg keep his gold medals from the first two races, but in December 2003 a ruling by the Court of Arbitration for Sport ( CAS ) found that these medals should also be withdrawn.

Belgium has resorted several times to international dispute settlement, notably in cases at both the International Court of Justice and the Permanent Court of Arbitration with the Netherlands concerning the diversion of water from the Meuse ( 1937 ) the frontier at the enclave of Baarle-Hertog ( 1959 ) and the revitalisation of the so called Iron Rhine railroad ( 2005 ).

* Geneva Arbitration, from the Cyclopaedia of Political Science

According to a February 11, 2009, report in The Huffington Post about the Arbitration Fairness Act, Applebee's employees are barred from suing the company by a binding mandatory arbitration agreement, even if they repeatedly refuse to sign the agreement, and instead repeatedly write on the agreement that they cannot sign it when pressured to do so.

Of Lord Bowen's literary works besides those already indicated may be mentioned his translation of Virgil's Eclogues, and Aeneid, books i .- vi., and his pamphlet, The Alabama Claim and Arbitration considered from a Legal Point of View.

The following analysis of an Arbitration Committee belonging to League of Nations absolved both parties from any charge.

He practised in both the Irish courts and the European Court of Justice and also served as a member of the International Court of Commercial Arbitration from 1990 – 97.

Brownell later served as the United States representative to the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague and from 1972 to 1974, he was special U. S. envoy to Mexico for negotiations over the Colorado River.

Part of the funds was allocated to help resettle Czechs who had fled from territories lost to Czechoslovakia in the Munich Agreement or the Vienna Arbitration Award.

Carnegie and the original map of the Peace PalaceThe idea of the Palace started from a discussion in 1900 between the Russian diplomat Friedrich Martens and the US diplomat Andrew White, over providing a home for the Permanent Court of Arbitration ( PCA ), which was established through the first Hague Peace Conference in 1899.

Although striking was prohibited and trade unions were barred from negotiating such matters as promotion, transfer, employment, dismissal, retrenchment, and reinstatement, issues that " accounted for most earlier labour disputes ", the government generally provided measures for workers ' safety and welfare since the 1960s and serious union disputes with employers were almost always handled through the Industrial Arbitration Court, which had powers of both binding arbitration and voluntary mediation.

Butler was the chair of the Lake Mohonk Conference on International Arbitration that met periodically from 1907 to 1912.

* December 13 – The Court of Arbitration for Sport bans American Tim Montgomery for two years in a case stemming from his involvement with the controversial " sports nutrition " center BALCO.

Milov took his case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport ( Tribunal Arbitral de Sport ) in Lausanne which found that FIDE " undertook extraordinary efforts to make sure that Claimant could participate in the WCC 2004 although such efforts could and should have been made earlier " and ultimately cleared FIDE of any ill-intentioned effort to exclude Milov, concluding " there is no ground for Claimant to claim damages from Respondent .".

He was one of the first members appointed to the Permanent Court of Arbitration at the Hague, and served from 1901 to 1912.

However, the British, French and American teams subsequently appealled to the Court of Arbitration for Sports ( CAS ), arguing that the FEI was wrong to remove Hoy's time penalties from her final result.

The biggest change resulting from this reform was the creation of an " International Council of Arbitration for Sport " ( ICAS ) to look after the running and financing of the CAS, thereby taking the place of the IOC.

The Australian Industrial Relations Commission, or AIRC ( known from 1956 to 1973 as the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, and from 1973 to 1988 as the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission ), was a tribunal with powers under the Workplace Relations Act 1996.