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Dispute Resolution and Arbitration

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Faculty Publications

2008

Arbitration

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Enforcing Class Arbitration In The International Sphere: Due Process And Public Policy Concerns, S. I. Strong Oct 2008

Enforcing Class Arbitration In The International Sphere: Due Process And Public Policy Concerns, S. I. Strong

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This article appears to be the first to address the unique issues relating to international class arbitration and to discuss the status of class arbitration in other countries. To date, the only published articles on class arbitration - a dispute resolution mechanism that has been in existence in the United States since the early 1980s - have focused on domestic arbitration. However, with a number of known international class arbitrations in progress, all seated in the United States, questions concerning the transnational legitimacy of the class arbitration process and the ability to enforce class awards under the New York Convention …


Curing Consumer Warranty Woes Through Regulated Arbitration, Amy J. Schmitz Oct 2008

Curing Consumer Warranty Woes Through Regulated Arbitration, Amy J. Schmitz

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This article proposes legislative procedural reforms accounting for the realities of consumer arbitration that have threatened and denied consumers' access to remedies for companies' violations of public, or statutory, warranty remedies under the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act (MMWA). Furthermore, the Article proposes to clarify and expand the MMWA's current dispute resolution template in order to resolve judicial disagreement regarding the template's application and foster beneficial use of finding arbitration. Accordingly, this is not a call to ban all pre-dispute arbitration clauses in consumer contracts, but is instead an invitation for more politically palatable reforms that preserve both companies' savings and consumers' …


Book Review - The Science Of Settlement: Ideas For Negotiators, Rebekah K. Maxwell Mar 2008

Book Review - The Science Of Settlement: Ideas For Negotiators, Rebekah K. Maxwell

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