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Contract Law—Conspicuous Arbitration Agreements In Online Contracts: Contradictions And Challenges In The Uber Cases, Matthew Hoffman Jun 2022

Contract Law—Conspicuous Arbitration Agreements In Online Contracts: Contradictions And Challenges In The Uber Cases, Matthew Hoffman

University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review

No abstract provided.


Arbitration Law In Tension After Hall Street: Accuracy Of Finality?, Stanley A. Leasure Oct 2016

Arbitration Law In Tension After Hall Street: Accuracy Of Finality?, Stanley A. Leasure

University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review

No abstract provided.


Leveling Up To Immersive Dispute Resolution (Idr) In 3-D Virtual Worlds: Learning And Employing Key Idr Skills To Resolve In-World Developer-Participant Conflicts, Lucille M. Ponte Jul 2012

Leveling Up To Immersive Dispute Resolution (Idr) In 3-D Virtual Worlds: Learning And Employing Key Idr Skills To Resolve In-World Developer-Participant Conflicts, Lucille M. Ponte

University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review

This article proposes a new conflict resolution approach called "immersive dispute resolution" (IDR) through the use of existing communication and graphical technology in 3-D virtual worlds as well as the collaborative and strategic thinking skills virtual world participants acquire in digital experiences. Specifically, this article begins by discussing research on learning in virtual worlds, with an emphasis on key collaborative conflict resolution skills accumulated through play in virtual environments. Next, this article discusses current dispute resolution processes available in certain 3-D worlds which fail to leverage the technology or collaborative skills available in these environments, and finishes with a call …


Vacatur Of Arbitration Awards: The Poor Loser Problem Or Loser Pays?, Stanley A. Leasure Apr 2007

Vacatur Of Arbitration Awards: The Poor Loser Problem Or Loser Pays?, Stanley A. Leasure

University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review

In B. L. Harbert International, LLC. v. Hercules Steel Co., decided in February 2006, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals took the opportunity to express its "exasperation" with the growing tendency of losing parties in arbitration disputes to take a "never-say-die attitude" in the pursuit of vacatur of arbitral decisions "without any real legal basis for doing so" and its concern for the concomitant threat to the underlying purposes of the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA).

Applying the Harbert "any real legal basis" requirement raises several concerns that can be assuaged only by courts' commitment to focus on balancing following two …


Securities—Arbitration—Agreements To Arbitrate Are Valid, John P. Neihouse Jul 1987

Securities—Arbitration—Agreements To Arbitrate Are Valid, John P. Neihouse

University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review

No abstract provided.


Labor Relations—Flsa Action Not Barred By Prior Arbitration, Patrick R. James Apr 1982

Labor Relations—Flsa Action Not Barred By Prior Arbitration, Patrick R. James

University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review

No abstract provided.