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Determining The Timeliness Of A Securities Claim Filed For Arbitration: Substantive Eligibility Requirement Or Procedural Statute Of Limitations, Carla K. Williams Jul 1996

Determining The Timeliness Of A Securities Claim Filed For Arbitration: Substantive Eligibility Requirement Or Procedural Statute Of Limitations, Carla K. Williams

Journal of Dispute Resolution

This Comment will focus on the development of this debate, the positions taken by the courts, and a possible resolution of these issues by the SROs themselves.9 Specifically, Part II briefly discusses the development of arbitration in the United States; Part III discusses the issues surrounding the debate, including what positions the courts have taken; and Part IV discusses the possible resolution of this debate by amendment to the SRO codes.


Recent Developments: The Uniform Arbitration Act, Dana A. Chamblee, Matthew S. Darrough, Reachel A. Jennings, Trina R. Ricketts Jul 1996

Recent Developments: The Uniform Arbitration Act, Dana A. Chamblee, Matthew S. Darrough, Reachel A. Jennings, Trina R. Ricketts

Journal of Dispute Resolution

This Article is an overview of recent court decisions that interpret state versions of the Uniform Arbitration Act ("U.A.A.").' Arbitration statutes patterned after the U.A.A. have been adopted by thirty-four states and the District of Columbia.2 The goal of this project is to promote uniformity in the interpretation of the U.A.A. by analyzing the various underlying policies and rationales of recent court decisions interpreting the U.A.A. '


Arbitration Of Employment Discrimination Claims And The Challenge Of Contemporary Federalism, Ellwood F. Oakley Iii, Donald O. Mayer Apr 1996

Arbitration Of Employment Discrimination Claims And The Challenge Of Contemporary Federalism, Ellwood F. Oakley Iii, Donald O. Mayer

South Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.


Note, Arbitrating Novel Legal Questions: A Recommendation For Reform, Michael A. Scodro Feb 1996

Note, Arbitrating Novel Legal Questions: A Recommendation For Reform, Michael A. Scodro

Michael A. Scodro

No abstract provided.


Arbitration: Back To The Future, Theodore J. St. Antoine Jan 1996

Arbitration: Back To The Future, Theodore J. St. Antoine

Other Publications

A strong new ideological current is sweeping through much of the Western World. At one extreme it manifests itself as a deep distrust of big government. In more modest form, it is a sense of skepticism or disillusionment about the capacity of big government to deal effectively with the problems confronting our society. In continental Europe today there is much talk of the principle of "subsidiarity," the notion that social and economic ills should be treated at the lowest level feasible, usually the level closest to the people directly affected. In the United States there is much talk of "privatization," …


Panacea Or Corporate Tool?: Debunking The Supreme Court's Preference For Binding Arbitration, Jean R. Sternlight Jan 1996

Panacea Or Corporate Tool?: Debunking The Supreme Court's Preference For Binding Arbitration, Jean R. Sternlight

Scholarly Works

This article examines the increasing use of contracts of adhesion in which companies require consumers, employees, franchisees and other "little guys" to submit disputes with the company to binding arbitration. The article argues that the Supreme Court's current preference for such agreements is not statutorily well-founded. Specifically, it contends that the Federal Arbitration Act was not intended to make such agreements binding on unknowing consumers or employees. Turning next to policy analysis, the article asserts that the Supreme Court has erred in expressing a preference for binding arbitration in cases where such arbitration was not knowingly and voluntarily accepted by …


Amazon Burning And The World Bank: Lessons From The Second World Bank Inspection Panel Claim, David Hunter Jan 1996

Amazon Burning And The World Bank: Lessons From The Second World Bank Inspection Panel Claim, David Hunter

Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals

No abstract provided.


Bootstrapping And Slouching Toward Gomorrah: Arbitral Infatuation And The Decline Of Consent, Jeffrey W. Stempel Jan 1996

Bootstrapping And Slouching Toward Gomorrah: Arbitral Infatuation And The Decline Of Consent, Jeffrey W. Stempel

Scholarly Works

The Seventh Amendment to the Constitution preserves for litigants a right to a jury trial in actions at law. The right to a jury trial does not attach for equitable actions, but in cases presenting claims for both legal and equitable relief a right to a jury trial exists for common questions of fact. Although many modern statutes and claims did not exist in 1791, the Amendment has been interpreted to require a jury trial of statutory claims seeking monetary damages, the classic form of legal relief, so long as there is a relatively apt analogy between the modern statutory …


Sica: The First Twenty Years, Constantine N. Katsoris Jan 1996

Sica: The First Twenty Years, Constantine N. Katsoris

Fordham Urban Law Journal

This Article provides a broad overview of the topic of securities arbitration. It expresses the views of litigants from both sides of the spectrum. It argues that the public must trust in the integrity of the SRO (self-regulatory organization) arbitration process for securities arbitration to remain the basically mandatory system that it is today. The Article traces the evolution of arbitration rules in effect at various SROs. It then examines the Uniform Code of Arbitration in detail, and the SRO Codes. It explores the role of the American Arbitration Association (AAA), the NYSE Symposium, the Ruder Report and the Role …


Who's Watching Out For The Children - Making Child Custody Determinable By Binding Arbitration - Dick V. Dick, Barbara E. Wilson Jan 1996

Who's Watching Out For The Children - Making Child Custody Determinable By Binding Arbitration - Dick V. Dick, Barbara E. Wilson

Journal of Dispute Resolution

"Many is the custody case which almost seems to outlive the parents .... To remedy this problem, many members of the legal profession advocate greater utilization of arbitration to include determination of child custody.' As state courts struggle to incorporate and interpret the Uniform Arbitration Act ("UAA") into child custody case law, the Dick case stands as the latest decision demonstrating the advantages and pitfalls of using binding arbitration to resolve custody disputes.


Globalisation Of Contract Law: Rules For Commercial Contracts In The 21st Century, Whitmore Gray Jan 1996

Globalisation Of Contract Law: Rules For Commercial Contracts In The 21st Century, Whitmore Gray

Articles

This is a paper given at the Asia-Pacific Lawyers Association meeting held in Bangkok in November 1995. The author describes the principles of international commercial contracts published in 1994 by the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law. Professor Gray sees a new era of harmonisation of contract law. An appendix gives an abstract of a contract law decision given by an Austrian Court in 1994.


Models Of Quality For Third Parties In Alternative Dispute Resolution, Carole Silver Jan 1996

Models Of Quality For Third Parties In Alternative Dispute Resolution, Carole Silver

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.


Beyond Arbitration: Innovation And Evolution In The United States Construction Industry, Thomas J. Stipanowich Dec 1995

Beyond Arbitration: Innovation And Evolution In The United States Construction Industry, Thomas J. Stipanowich

Thomas J. Stipanowich

Disagreement among contracting parties has a rich tradition in the construction industry, which has been at the forefront of creating and experimenting with alternatives to litigation. In this article, Professor Stipanowich examines traditional alternatives to litigation utilized by the construction industry, including summary adjudication by design professionals, arbitration, mediation, minitrial, dispute review boards, early neutral evaluation, and partnering. After analyzing the results from the 1991 ABA-sponsored survey on dispute resolution in the construction industry, the author presents data from the 1994 Multidisciplinary Study on Dispute Avoidance and Resolution in the Construction Industry, a landmark study of which the author was …


Employment Arbitration And Voluntary Consent, Stephen Ware Dec 1995

Employment Arbitration And Voluntary Consent, Stephen Ware

Stephen Ware

The boom in non-union employment arbitration has caused great concern about protecting employees' access to courts. Virtually every commentator agrees that employment disputes should be litigated, rather than arbitrated, unless the employee has voluntarily consented to arbitration. While courts and commentators agree that an employee's voluntary consent is a prerequisite to employment arbitration, they do not agree on what constitutes voluntary consent. This article proposes a method of determining what constitutes voluntary consent to employment arbitration. The method proposed is simply application of ordinary contract law doctrines. The article develops the theoretical underpinnings of the contractual approach to arbitration and, …