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Beyond Unconscionability: Class Action Waivers And Mandatory Arbitration Agreements, J. Maria Glover
Beyond Unconscionability: Class Action Waivers And Mandatory Arbitration Agreements, J. Maria Glover
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
We live in an age of convenience. From financial transactions to electronic correspondence, we frequently deal with large corporations that provide services in our daily lives. One of the prices we pay for the convenience of these transactions, however, is that our commercial relationships increasingly are based on standard form contracts written by large corporations. While these standard form contracts are necessary to an economically efficient society, the growing use of mandatory arbitration provisions and clauses that prohibit class actions in these contracts raises the spectre of corporate abuse.
Corporate Takeover Of Teaching Hospitals, Maxwell Gregg Bloche
Corporate Takeover Of Teaching Hospitals, Maxwell Gregg Bloche
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
This article explores the potential and the dangers of this novel form of collaboration between academic medicine and the for-profit world. The author focuses on those arrangements--purchases and leasing agreements--by which investor-owned corporations operate, for a profit, hospitals that serve as major medical teaching and research sites. He begins by reviewing how the evolving needs of academic medical centers and for-profit hospital chains have generated mutual interest in such arrangements. The author then considers some frequently expressed ethical, economic, and other public policy objections to the provision of hospital services by for-profit firms. Opponents of the acquisition and leasing of …