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Sternlight: Tide Turning a Bit on Mandatory Arbitration Through Recognition that Process Suppresses Claims?
January 6, 2014
These have been very bleak times for those, like me, who abhor mandatory arbitration because they think it disserves consumers, employees, and others. In case after case such as AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion (2011) and American Express v. Italian Colors Restaurant (2013) the Supreme Court has given companies free rein to use arbitration to eviscerate class actions and to protect these clauses from challenge. Meanwhile, the efforts of some to convince Congress to stop the horror by passing...
January 6, 2014
These have been very bleak times for those, like me, who abhor mandatory arbitration because they think it disserves consumers, employees, and others. In case after case such as AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion (2011) and American Express v. Italian Colors Restaurant (2013) the Supreme Court has given companies free rein to use arbitration to eviscerate class actions and to protect these clauses from challenge. Meanwhile, the efforts of some to convince Congress to stop the horror by passing...
The Federalization of Consumer Arbitration: Possible Solutions
December 19, 2013
Sarah Rudolph Cole, John W. Bricker Professor of Law and Director of the Program on Dispute Resolution at the Ohio State University’s Moritz College of Law has authored The Federalization of Consumer Arbitration: Possible Solutions. In her paper, Professor Cole discusses the United States Supreme Court’s recent arbitration jurisprudence and its effect on state law. Here is the abstract: Over the past fifteen to twenty years, businesses dramatically increased the use of arbitration clauses...
December 19, 2013
Sarah Rudolph Cole, John W. Bricker Professor of Law and Director of the Program on Dispute Resolution at the Ohio State University’s Moritz College of Law has authored The Federalization of Consumer Arbitration: Possible Solutions. In her paper, Professor Cole discusses the United States Supreme Court’s recent arbitration jurisprudence and its effect on state law. Here is the abstract: Over the past fifteen to twenty years, businesses dramatically increased the use of arbitration clauses...
American Exceptionalism in Consumer Arbitration
June 12, 2013
Amy Schmitz, Professor of Law at the University of Colorado Law School, has authored an interesting article entitled, American Exceptionalism in Consumer Arbitration, Loyola University Chicago International Law Review, Vol. 10, No. 1, 2013; U. of Colorado Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 13-7. In her paper, Professor Schmitz describes business-to-consumer arbitration policy in the United States and the effect it may have on cross-border disputes. Here is the abstract: “American exceptionalism”...
June 12, 2013
Amy Schmitz, Professor of Law at the University of Colorado Law School, has authored an interesting article entitled, American Exceptionalism in Consumer Arbitration, Loyola University Chicago International Law Review, Vol. 10, No. 1, 2013; U. of Colorado Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 13-7. In her paper, Professor Schmitz describes business-to-consumer arbitration policy in the United States and the effect it may have on cross-border disputes. Here is the abstract: “American exceptionalism”...
Take Harvard Law Survey On Online Arbitration for Consumer Disputes Today!
April 7, 2013
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April 7, 2013
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