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Mediating Disputes In Managed Care: Resolving Conflicts Over Covered Services, Nancy Neveloff Dubler Jan 2002

Mediating Disputes In Managed Care: Resolving Conflicts Over Covered Services, Nancy Neveloff Dubler

Journal of Health Care Law and Policy

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International Commercial Arbitration In Cyberspace: Recent Developments, Ljiljana Biukovic Jan 2002

International Commercial Arbitration In Cyberspace: Recent Developments, Ljiljana Biukovic

Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business

This article examines some features of virtual arbitration and argues that the use of new technology and the development of e-commerce raise some interesting questions to international arbitration laws. Part It describes initiatives to develop online dispute resolution. Part III discusses virtual dispute resolution centers, including, how, why, and where they function. More importantly, however, Part III investigates the differences between online and off-line arbitration, where the focus remains on three questions. The first question is a crucial one. It has been debated by scholars and practitioners but still remains unresolved: will arbitration agreements concluded online and arbitration awards rendered …

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Knowledge, Legitimacy, Efficiency And The Institutionalization Of Dispute Settlement Procedures At The World Trade Organization And The World Intellectual Property Organization, Michael P. Ryan Jan 2002

Knowledge, Legitimacy, Efficiency And The Institutionalization Of Dispute Settlement Procedures At The World Trade Organization And The World Intellectual Property Organization, Michael P. Ryan

Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business

International legal research regarding international economic dispute settlement tends to be a-theoretical. A theoretically-grounded analytic framework is employed in this article which draws from scholarship from political science, sociology, and economics regarding institutions and international governmental organizations. The knowledge-legitimacy-efficiency analytic framework is applied in this article to studies of General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GA TT)/World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute settlement in order to relate this relevant scholarship to the economic field under primary study, Internet domain names. GA TT/WTO knowledge regarding international trade law has thickened through multi-lateral trade negotiations and dispute settlement decisions. The WTO's legitimacy is …

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Ending A Mud Bowl: Defining Arbitration’S Finality Through Functional Analysis, Amy J. Schmitz Jan 2002

Ending A Mud Bowl: Defining Arbitration’S Finality Through Functional Analysis, Amy J. Schmitz

Faculty Publications

The Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) and Uniform Arbitration Act (UAA), on the state level, prescribe a nearly identical procedural and remedial scheme for promoting independent, self-contained arbitration. To that end, both acts curtail courts' review of arbitration awards, by limiting the grounds for vacating awards to those aimed at ensuring only basic procedural fairness. Nonetheless, seemingly "pro-arbitration" impulses have driven some courts' eager application, or misapplication, of the FAA/UAA statutory scheme to enforce dispute resolution agreements that reject the acts' limited review prescriptions. This Article tackles this arguable abuse of the FAA/UAA scheme, by proposing a functional analysis for defining …

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Using Dispute System Design Methods To Promote Good-Faith Participation In Court-Connected Mediation Programs, John M. Lande Jan 2002

Using Dispute System Design Methods To Promote Good-Faith Participation In Court-Connected Mediation Programs, John M. Lande

Faculty Publications

This article discusses what can be done to promote productive behavior in mediation and reduce bad conduct. Although most participants do not abuse the mediation process, some people use mediation to drag out litigation, gain leverage for later negotiations, and generally wear down the opposition. Rules requiring good-faith participation are likely to be ineffective and possibly counterproductive. This article proposes using dispute system design principles to develop policies satisfying the interests of stakeholders in court-connected mediation programs. After outlining important interests of key stakeholder groups, including litigants, attorneys, courts, and mediators, the Article describes specific policies that could satisfy their …

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Health Plan Internal Consumer Dispute Resolution Practices: Highlights From A National Study, Naomi Karp, Erica Wood Jan 2002

Health Plan Internal Consumer Dispute Resolution Practices: Highlights From A National Study, Naomi Karp, Erica Wood

Journal of Health Care Law and Policy

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Confidential From General Counsel To Ceo:"I'M Fed Up, And We're Not Going To Take This Anymore!", Karl A. Slaikeu, Diane W. Slaikeu Jan 2002

Confidential From General Counsel To Ceo:"I'M Fed Up, And We're Not Going To Take This Anymore!", Karl A. Slaikeu, Diane W. Slaikeu

Journal of Health Care Law and Policy

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Managing Conflict In An Urban Health Care Setting: What Do "Experts" Know?, Kenneth Kressel, Cheryl Ann Kennedy, Elise Lev, Louise Taylor Jan 2002

Managing Conflict In An Urban Health Care Setting: What Do "Experts" Know?, Kenneth Kressel, Cheryl Ann Kennedy, Elise Lev, Louise Taylor

Journal of Health Care Law and Policy

No abstract provided.

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A Culture Of Conflict: Lessons From Renegotiating Health Care, Leonard J. Marcus Jan 2002

A Culture Of Conflict: Lessons From Renegotiating Health Care, Leonard J. Marcus

Journal of Health Care Law and Policy

No abstract provided.

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Income Tax Treaty Arbitration, William W. Park Jan 2002

Income Tax Treaty Arbitration, William W. Park

Faculty Scholarship

Notwithstanding similar fiscal objectives, countries that conclude income tax treaties often arrive at radically different results when treaty language is applied to a practical problem. The task of resolving disagreement on treaty interpretation falls either to national courts or to joint efforts by the tax administrations to work out differences on a voluntary basis. Neither alternative is satisfactory. Judicial proceedings lack political neutrality and yield inconsistent results. And the process for "mutual agreement" among competent fiscal authorities is fraught with delays and uncertainty.

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Suppose It's Not True: Challenging Mediation Ideology, Deborah R. Hensler Jan 2002

Suppose It's Not True: Challenging Mediation Ideology, Deborah R. Hensler

Journal of Dispute Resolution

Across the country, people who file lawsuits are being diverted from adjudication to mediation. Whereas once mediation was seen as the preferred means of resolving family disputes (especially those involving child custody), now it is mandated for a broad range of civil disputes. Whereas once citizens were called upon to volunteer as mediators in community justice centers outside the courts, now mediation is a line of business for lawyers whose customers are sent to them by the courts. Whereas once dispute resolution theorists called on courts to provide a variety of procedural choices for civil disputants, now courts order litigants …

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Disputants' Decision Control In Court-Connected Mediation: A Hollow Promise Without Procedural Justice, Nancy A. Welsh Jan 2002

Disputants' Decision Control In Court-Connected Mediation: A Hollow Promise Without Procedural Justice, Nancy A. Welsh

Journal of Dispute Resolution

Such a uniform commitment to procedural justice might seem natural for the courts. However, the procedural due process jurisprudence indicates that the courts' appreciation of procedural justice is unlikely to translate easily to processes in which the disputants, not the courts, are deemed to exercise control over outcomes. Given the current state of procedural due process jurisprudence, courts may lack both the desire and the ability to demand procedural justice in third party processes that are classified as "consensual." Ironically then, disputants' decision control, which is meaningful to mediation advocates and the courts but a rather hollow promise for disputants, …

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Arbitration Agreements In Labor And Employment Contracts: Well Within The Reach Of The Faa - Circuit City Stores, Inc. V. Adams, Lisa M. Eaton Jan 2002

Arbitration Agreements In Labor And Employment Contracts: Well Within The Reach Of The Faa - Circuit City Stores, Inc. V. Adams, Lisa M. Eaton

Journal of Dispute Resolution

Despite a series of decisions where the Supreme Court has upheld the use of arbitration in the employment context, the Court has never clearly stated that arbitration agreements contained in employment contracts fall under the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA). This omission has led to a split in the Circuits as to the scope of the FAA coverage ad exemption provisions. The controversy centers on whether the FAA covers all employment contracts except those of employees who transport people or goods in interstate commerce or whether the FAA exempts all employment contracts.

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Foreword, Edward R. Becker Jan 2002

Foreword, Edward R. Becker

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

No abstract provided.

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Should An Arbitration Provision Trump The Class Action? No: Permitting Companies To Skirt Class Actions Through Mandatory Arbitration Would Be Dangerous And Unwise, Jean R. Sternlight Jan 2002

Should An Arbitration Provision Trump The Class Action? No: Permitting Companies To Skirt Class Actions Through Mandatory Arbitration Would Be Dangerous And Unwise, Jean R. Sternlight

Scholarly Works

Companies are deliberately using mandatory arbitration to prevent consumers and employces from joining together in class actions. As Carroll Neesemann has explained, eliminating the class action is a "strong incentive" of those companies that impose the requirement of arbitration on consumers and employees. Mr. Neesemann defends this phenomenon, and his article offers companies and their attorneys some tips on how to effectively use arbitration to insulate themselves from the threat of class actions. By contrast, this essay argues that it is dangerous and unwise to permit companies to use mandatory arbitration to exempt themselves from class action suits.

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Is The U.S. Out On A Limb? Comparing The U.S. Approach To Mandatory Consumer And Employment Arbitration To That Of The Rest Of The World, Jean R. Sternlight Jan 2002

Is The U.S. Out On A Limb? Comparing The U.S. Approach To Mandatory Consumer And Employment Arbitration To That Of The Rest Of The World, Jean R. Sternlight

Scholarly Works

After quickly summarizing the landscape of mandatory arbitration both within and without the United States, this article will consider why mandatory arbitration is treated so disparately, whether it is problematic that approaches to mandatory arbitration are so varied among countries, and what the differing jurisdictions can and should learn from one another. The article concludes that the United States Congress should be very concerned with the fact that we are treating mandatory arbitration more permissively than other countries. I, along with many others, have previously presented many arguments for why mandatory arbitration is problematic. Our outlier status on this issue …

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Introduction: What Adr Means Today, Theodore J. St. Antoine Jan 2002

Introduction: What Adr Means Today, Theodore J. St. Antoine

Other Publications

The sort of cachet a Hollywood screenplay once ascribed to "plastics" seems today to have adhered to "ADR." ADR stands, of course, for alternative dispute resolution. It refers to various methods by which neutral third parties assist persons engaged in a conflict to settle their differences without invoking the decision-making power of the state. And for many people, ADR has become the byword for a much-needed panacea for an overly litigious society. This book is designed to get behind the mystique of ADR, to show how it really works, and to enhance the skills of anyone interested in exploiting its …

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Conflict In Health Care Organizations, Mary Etta C. Mills Jan 2002

Conflict In Health Care Organizations, Mary Etta C. Mills

Journal of Health Care Law and Policy

No abstract provided.

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A Uniform National System Of Mediation In The United States: Requiring National Training Standards And Guidelines For Mediators And State Mediation Programs, Brien Wassner Jan 2002

A Uniform National System Of Mediation In The United States: Requiring National Training Standards And Guidelines For Mediators And State Mediation Programs, Brien Wassner

Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution

The necessity for establishing a uniform system of mediation training for mediators in the United States is evidenced by the inconsistencies in both the training of mediators throughout the country and the roles assumed by mediators during mediation. The more formal conception of mediation can be traced back to the 1976 Pound Conference, however mediation in general is much older than twenty-six years, and has since continuously evolved. Moreover, the concept of mediation, as defined by statute, training, and thereafter, licensing, varies amongst the states as well. Mediation provides a viable alternative to the rigid state and federal judicial systems’ …

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Alternative Dispute Resolution In The Entertainment Industry Jan 2002

Alternative Dispute Resolution In The Entertainment Industry

Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution

No abstract provided.

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Table Of Contents - Issue 2 Jan 2002

Table Of Contents - Issue 2

Journal of Dispute Resolution

No abstract provided.

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Twenty-Five Years Later With Promises To Keep: Legal Education In Dispute Resolution And Training Of Mediators, Lela P. Love Jan 2002

Twenty-Five Years Later With Promises To Keep: Legal Education In Dispute Resolution And Training Of Mediators, Lela P. Love

Articles

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The Ballad Of Transborder Arbitration, Thomas E. Carbonneau Jan 2002

The Ballad Of Transborder Arbitration, Thomas E. Carbonneau

Faculty Scholarship

International commercial arbitration (ICA) is many things positive. Because business transactions cannot take place without a functional system of adjudication,ICA has enabled parties to engage in and pursue international commerce. As a result, it has had an enormous impact upon the international practice of law, the structuring of a de facto international legal system, and the development of a substantive world law of commerce. In a word, ICA has been a vital engine in the creation of a transborder rule of law. Furthering this design, the arbitral "method"has even been applied to the unruly political problems that attend international trade …

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Alternatives To Economic Sanctions, Christine M. Chinkin Jan 2002

Alternatives To Economic Sanctions, Christine M. Chinkin

Book Chapters

Considering the merits of non-coercive alternatives to economic sanctions inevitably risks the charges of idealism and naIvete. However a number of speakers in this conference have raised considerable doubts about the efficacy of sanctions: even on their own terms sanctions rarely work and the material costs to non-targeted states and the implications for human rights make their justification problematic, even when they can in some sense be said to have worked. It therefore makes sense at least to give consideration to some non- coercive alternatives, either in conjunction with sanctioning policies or separate from them. The other alternative is the …

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The Lawyer-Negotiator As Mood Scientist: What We Know And Don't Know About How Mood Relates To Successful Negotiation, Clark Freshman, Adele Hayes, Greg Feldman Jan 2002

The Lawyer-Negotiator As Mood Scientist: What We Know And Don't Know About How Mood Relates To Successful Negotiation, Clark Freshman, Adele Hayes, Greg Feldman

Faculty Scholarship

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Making It Up As They Go Along: The Role Of Law In Securities Arbitration, Barbara Black, Jill I. Gross Jan 2002

Making It Up As They Go Along: The Role Of Law In Securities Arbitration, Barbara Black, Jill I. Gross

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

What is the current role of the law in securities arbitration? Given the difficulties investors would encounter in pleading and proving their claims in court, they may well be better off in a system where less attention is paid to the law and more to the equities of the actual dispute before the arbitration panel. While this is not a system where accountability and predictability of results can be achieved, investors may, in fact, fare better than they might expect. It follows then that if equitable considerations enhance rather than subtract from investors' chances of recovery, then investors need not …

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Separability And Competence-Competence In International Arbitration: Ex Nihilo Nihil Fit? Can Something Indeed Come From Nothing?, Robert H. Smit Jan 2002

Separability And Competence-Competence In International Arbitration: Ex Nihilo Nihil Fit? Can Something Indeed Come From Nothing?, Robert H. Smit

Faculty Scholarship

The doctrine of separability provides that an arbitration clause is “separable” from the contract containing it and thus may survive a successful challenge to the validity of the contract. The doctrine of competence-competence provides that arbitrators have jurisdiction to decide challenges to the arbitration agreements upon which their own jurisdiction is based. These two doctrines have appropriately been called the conceptual cornerstones of international arbitration as an autonomous and effective form of international dispute resolution. The doctrines, taken together, ensure that the parties’ intent to arbitrate any disputes that arise out of their international contractual relationship is effectuated without undue …

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Mediating Ethically: The Limits Of Codes Of Conduct And The Potential Of A Reflective Practice Model, Julie Macfarlane Jan 2002

Mediating Ethically: The Limits Of Codes Of Conduct And The Potential Of A Reflective Practice Model, Julie Macfarlane

Osgoode Hall Law Journal

Discussions regarding the appropriate ethical behaviours for mediators and the subsequent development of formal codes of conduct have focused on hallmark issues such as third party impartiality and party self-determination. However, in an informal process, ethical choices are inherent in every intervention made by a mediator. In adopting the standard-setting approach of an adjudicative model, mediator codes of conduct are a poor fit with the conceptual and structural characteristics of this fluid, uncertain, and essentially private process. Confining the substantive and conceptual debate over mediation ethics to formal codes dangerously underestimates both the scope and the significance of choices faced …

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Appellate Mediation In The Third Circuit - Program Operations: Nuts, Bolts, And Practice Tips, Joseph A. Torregrossa Jan 2002

Appellate Mediation In The Third Circuit - Program Operations: Nuts, Bolts, And Practice Tips, Joseph A. Torregrossa

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

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Procedural Justice Research And The Paucity Of Trials, Chris Guthrie Jan 2002

Procedural Justice Research And The Paucity Of Trials, Chris Guthrie

Journal of Dispute Resolution

Likewise, I do not mean to criticize Hensler's contribution to this volume. Although she is a prominent procedural justice researcher herself, she is certainly not responsible for the inattention given to the questions I have identified, and her measured conclusions about what might be inferred from the existing research are certainly appropriate. Indeed, I take Hensler' s broader point to be that courts should not mandate mediation simply because they believe as a matter of faith that mediation is a "better" process than others." Rather, courts should base their decisions, to the extent possible, on empirical evidence about the relative …

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