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Arbitration's Summer Soldiers Marching Into Fall: Another Look At Eisenberg, Miller, And Sherwin's Empirical Study Of Arbitration Clauses In Consumer And Nonconsumer Contracts, Nancy Kim

Nancy Kim

Our empirical study examines the role and importance of arbitration clauses in standard form contracts, primarily with other businesses. While much has been written about the impact of mandatory arbitration clauses in consumer contracts, relatively little has been written on mandatory arbitration clauses in customer agreements where the customer was a business and not an individual consumer. In this Article, we specifically address the findings presented in Theodore Eisenberg, Geoffrey Miller, and Emily Sherwin’s study, Arbitration’s Summer Soldiers: An Empirical Study of Arbitration Clauses in Consumer and Nonconsumer Contracts.1 Our study finds that many businesses employ mandatory arbitration clauses in …

Sovereign Immunity And Sovereign Debt, W. Mark C. Weidemaier

W. Mark C. Weidemaier