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Level The Playing Field: Advocating For The Removal Of Major League Baseball’S Prohibition On The Admissibility Of Statcast-Generated Sabermetrics As Evidence In Salary Arbitration Hearings, Christian Podest

Pepperdine Dispute Resolution Law Journal

This paper argues that Major League Baseball should amend its Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) to remove the outright ban on certain types of statistical evidence to help prove a player’s value. First, the paper briefly describes the history of the compensation system in the MLB and its evolution. Then, it details how final offer arbitration became the default mechanism for resolving compensation disputes between teams and players. The paper subsequently focuses on the Collective Bargaining Agreement’s carve-out of statistical evidence and notes the similarities and differences between Major League Baseball’s evidentiary standards governing salary arbitration hearings and the Federal Rules …

In Contracts We Trust (And No One Can Change Their Mind)! There Should Be No Special Treatment For Religious Arbitration, Michael J. Broyde, Alexa J. Windsor

Pepperdine Dispute Resolution Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Dilyara Nigmatullina’S New Article On Planned Early Dispute Resolution And Technology, John Lande

Faculty Blogs

This post summarizes Dilyara Nigmatullina’s article entitled, Planned Early Dispute Resolution [PEDR] Systems and Elements: Experiences and the Promise of Technology. It investigates actual experiences of companies using PEDR systems and discusses the effect that the companies’ shift to PEDR has on law firms. It concludes by exploring how PEDR systems can benefit from the use of technological tools and how the interaction between technology and dispute resolution can affect the future of the legal profession. PEDR is discussed in Section 8.

Crisis, Continuity, And Change In International Investment Law And Arbitration, Valentina Vadi

Michigan Journal of International Law

The dialectic between continuity and change lies at the heart of international law, which seeks to foster peaceful, just, and prosperous relations among nations. International law endeavors to govern the future by applying, in the present, norms that are inherited from the past. Nonetheless, everything flows and in an ever-changing world, some change is needed within the international legal system to ensure its stability especially in time of crisis. Not only can crises constitute means for the development of international law, but they can test, undermine or ultimately buttress the structure of international law. This article explores the connection between …

The Hague Rules On Third-Party Joinder: A Revised Framework, Emma Macfarlane

Michigan Business & Entrepreneurial Law Review

This paper critically assesses the Hague Rules’ stance on third-party joinder. Third-party joinder is an important feature in business human rights disputes. It is a mechanism that victims of human rights abuses can use to bring claims against corporate defendants where the victims do not otherwise have an underlying agreement on which to base their claim. Keeping in line with traditional conceptions of commercial arbitration, the Hague Rules are grounded in party consent to arbitrate. Conceptions of consent therefore have an outsized impact on the universe of parties who can bring actions against corporations before arbitral tribunals for human rights …

Investor-State Mediation: How The Landscape Is Changing [Sidra Survey], Nadja Alexander

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

Slowly but surely the dispute resolution landscape is shifting for investment related disputes. More than half the respondents to the International Dispute Resolution Survey published by the Singapore International Dispute Resolution Academy (SIDRA) last year indicated that they have been involved in an investor-state dispute between 2016 and 2018. And, it is of course no surprise the majority of survey respondents indicated that institutional arbitration was the mechanism of choice to resolve investor-state disputes.

Bargaining In The Shadow Of Investor-State Mediation: How The Threat Of Mediation Will Improve Parties' Conflict Management, Andrea Kupfer Schneider, Nancy A. Welsh

Faculty Scholarship

Issues of access to justice, threats to national sovereignty, and perceptions of inconsistency and arbitrariness have led to a crisis of confidence in the investor-state arbitration system. In response, there has been a successful push for the inclusion of mediation in treaty provisions and arbitration rules, as well as ratification of the Singapore Convention for the expedited enforcement of mediated agreements. Nonetheless, very little mediation is actually occurring on the ground. Efforts to increase the use of mediation have failed to address concerns such as the political costs of settling cases, the lack of coordination between state agencies with different …

The Recent Federal Withdrawal Of Limitations On Supplemental Environmental Projects And Importance To Environmental Justice Initiatives, Christina Giordanella

Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights & Social Justice

The note discusses the significance of Supplemental Environmental Projects (SEPs) in advancing environmental justice, particularly benefiting low-income and minority communities. It highlights the Biden administration's reversal of Trump-era restrictions on SEPs, which previously limited their use. The article argues that SEPs are legally valid tools supported by Congress through various environmental statutes and court rulings, despite challenges from the Trump administration. It emphasizes the need for explicit Congressional authorization to secure the future of SEPs and expand their use in settlements.

Digital Readiness Index For Arbitration Institutions: Challenges And Implications For Dispute Resolution Under The Belt And Road Initiative, Allison Goh

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

Post-COVID-19, a paradigm shift has occurred in the adoption of technology in arbitration. Leading arbitral institutions have adapted quickly, highlighting the foresight of institutions who have existing technological infrastructure in place. This article proposes a ‘Digital Readiness Index’, which aims to evaluate arbitral institutions on their level of digital readiness based on five evaluative indicators. Cross referenced against Institute for Management Development (IMD’s) 2019 World Digital Competitiveness Rankings, the findings reveal synergies between an economy’s digital competitiveness and the adoption of technology in dispute resolution. To further the development of dispute resolution processes under the Belt and Road Initiative, strategic …

The Emergence Of Mediation Law In Asia: A Tale Of Two Cities, Nadja M. Alexander

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

Contemporary mediation systems are emerging throughout Asia. In 2019, 16 jurisdictions from Asia and the Pacific region signed the UN Convention on International Mediation Settlement Agreements Resulting from Mediation (the Singapore Convention). Asian signatories include its three largest economies, five ASEAN countries and seven members of the RCEP.

Why is this important? In a strict legal sense, the Singapore Convention is an instrument to facilitate the enforcement of international mediated settlement agreements (iMSAs), however its broader objective is to facilitate cross-border trade and investment as is reflected in its Preamble.

The Singapore Convention promises to leave a significant impact on …

Utah, Odr, And The New “Millennial”Um, Devin Cooper

Brigham Young University Journal of Public Law

No abstract provided.

Upaya Hukum Pemegang Fidusia Terhadap Penyitaan Objek Jaminan Berdasarkan Putusan Pengadilan Negeri Nomor 305/ Pdt.G/2019/Pn.Jkt.Utr., Fricilia .

Indonesian Notary

Penelitian ini membahas mengenai kasus perdata yang diperiksa dan diadili di Pengadilan Negeri Jakarta Utara dengan perkara Nomor 305/Pdt.G/2019/PN.Jkt.Utr. Pihak Penggugat adalah perusahaan yang bergerak dalam pembiayaan leasing, sedangkan Tergugat adalah perorangan yang telah mendapatkan fasilitas kredit dari Penggugat. Kemudian dalam perjalanannya Tergugat wanprestasi dalam hal menunggak pembayaran yang diketahui bahwa Tergugat sedang dalam kasus tindak pidana narkotika serta objek jaminan fidusia menjadi barang sitaan Kejaksaan Negeri Jakarta Utara untuk dimusnahkan. Penggugat melakukan gugatan dan sita jaminan dimana berdasarkan putusan Pengadilan Negeri Nomor 305/Pdt.G/2019/PN.Jkt.Utr., Penggugat dimenangkan dan kemudian dikeluarkan sita jaminan kendaraan atas milik Tergugat untuk diserahkan ke Penggugat. Adapun …

The Rcra Citizen Suit Provision And The Private Remedy Of Restitution After Kfc Western, Inc. V. Meghrig And Furrer V. Brown: Reasonable Minds May Differ, J. Thomas Blaine Lewis

Journal of Natural Resources & Environmental Law

No abstract provided.

The Obligatory Nature Of Arbitration Awards And Their Implementation In National And International Arbitration Dr. George Hazbon Hazbon & Dr. Radwan Obaidat, George Hazboun

UAEU Law Journal

This research aimed to analyse the arbitration award in it's various natures to deal with the principle of resjudicate issue in the domestic arbitration, the foreign arbitration and the private international one. Also the research dealt with the exceptions to the principle in a comparative view, to focus finally on the possibility of considering an absolute effect of the principle besides the relative one.

Anna Howard’S New Book Examines Why Businesses Don’T Use Mediation – And Other Issues, John Lande

Faculty Blogs

Anna Howard‘s book, EU Cross-Border Commercial Mediation: Listening to Disputants – Changing the Frame; Framing the Changes, provides valuable insights about business disputing. Her study is based on 21 semi-structured interviews of senior in-house counsel in multi-national companies operating in Europe. It shows that lawyers think about disputes from the outset of problems, not simply at the later stages of cases. The study pays particular attention to why businesses don’t use mediation, highlighting the impact of internal organizational dynamics.

Writing Condition And Electronic Arbitration A Comparative Study, Ibrahim Sabri Al-Arnaout

UAEU Law Journal

This research is concerned with the issue of writing the arbitration agreement which is a formal condition required by the comparative legislation to conclude the arbitration agreement. Its purpose is to identify all the legal aspects of this condition and demonstrate its concept, nature and aspects. Then a question about the extent of the need for the traditional writing condition for the electronic arbitration agreement to be legal and correct is raised out with respect to showing the concept of this kind of arbitration. Namely, how the writing condition is satisfied within it and what the required conditions for the …

Comments To The Draft Working Group Iii Workplan, Columbia Center On Sustainable Investment, International Institute For Environment And Development, International Institute For Sustainable Development

Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment Staff Publications

The United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) is currently working on how to reform international investment treaties, focusing in particular on those treaties’ provisions enabling investors to sue governments in international arbitration. As an observer organization in this process, CCSI has emphasized that in the context of investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) reform, it is important to first consider what it is that investment treaties aim to achieve, and only then to consider what form(s) of dispute settlement will best advance those objectives. This means not only looking at reform of the existing ISDS mechanism, but also alternatives to …

Choice Of Law Governing A Contract Where Its Existence Is In Dispute: Clarifications From The Singapore International Commercial Court In Lew, Solomon V Kaikhushru Shiavax Nargolwala, Shou Yu Chong

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

The Singapore International Commercial Court’s judgment in Lew, Solomon v Kaikhushru Shiavax Nargolwala [2020] 3 SLR 61 is noteworthy as it heralds a modest development in Singapore private international law, especially in respect to the not uncommon issue of disputes over cross-border contracts where its existence is challenged. This case represents one of the handful of Singapore precedents which directly addresses the difficult conundrum where both the governing law and the existence of the underlying contract are in dispute. Under this context, it articulates a default choice of law position – the lex fori – where it is impossible to …

The Economics Of Class Action Waivers, Albert H. Choi, Kathryn E. Spier

Articles

Many firms require consumers, employees, and suppliers to sign class action waivers as a condition of doing business with the firm, and the U.S. Supreme Court has endorsed companies’ ability to block class actions through mandatory individual arbitration clauses. Are class action waivers serving the interests of society or are they facilitating socially harmful business practices? This paper synthesizes and extends the existing law and economics literature by analyzing the firms’ incentive to impose class action waivers. While in many settings the firms’ incentive to block class actions may be aligned with maximizing social welfare, in many other settings it …

What’S Happening In International Mediation In 2021? [Sidra Survey], Nadja Alexander, Samantha Clare Man Xin Goh, Ryce Lee

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

The Singapore International Dispute Resolution Academy (“SIDRA”) issued the global International Dispute Resolution Survey: 2020 Final Report (the “SIDRA Survey”) on 3 July 2020, which studied the preferences, experiences, and perspectives of legal users (lawyers and legal advisers) and client users (corporate executives and in-house counsel) with regard to, among other mechanisms, international commercial mediation. Previous blogs have commented on the Survey findings. The SIDRA Survey was followed by a qualitative study conducted between November to December 2020, consisting of in-depth interviews held with 18 Legal Users and Client Users from 11 countries (“SIDRA Interviews”). This post focuses on some …

New Edition Of Psychology For Lawyers, John Lande

Faculty Blogs

This post describes the second edition of Jennifer Robbennolt and Jean Sternlight’s book, Psychology for Lawyers: Understanding the Human Factors in Negotiation, Litigation, and Decision Making. Based on the latest research, it provides insights about perception, memory, judgment, decision making, emotion, persuasion and influence, communication, and the psychology of justice. It applies these insights tasks to daily tasks of lawyering, including interviewing, negotiating, counseling, and conducting discovery.

The Arbitration System In Dealing With Urgent Requests, Musaed Alenzi

UAEU Law Journal

Since the appearance of the arbitration system and its advantages, the state's monopoly of judiciary has retreated and the state ceded part of its general authority by allowing individuals and private entities to solve some of their disputes through ways they have consented to follow.

However, the state has still had urgent judiciary - beside the substantive judiciary – which guarantees quick and temporary solutions when imminent risk threatens their interests. As a result, the inquiry can be raised as whether the arbitrary judiciary has jurisdiction over disputes concerning imminent risks or not. After reviewing articles No. 173 – 188 …

The Legal Nature Of Arbitration Disputes In The Iraqi Market For Securities: A Comparative Study., Nasser Jalal, Zaala Said Yahya

UAEU Law Journal

Some Arab legislation pursues arbitration as a single machinery to resolve disputes arising in the stock markets. This includes the Temporary Law for Stock Markets of Iraq No. (74) issued in 2004, which dealt with arbitration as a key access to resolve disputes in the Iraqi Stock market. This trend has been addressed by the Arbitration Rules of Procedure of Iraqi Stock Market in 2008; the legislature believed in arbitration as a best approach to settle disputes which could arise either between brokers or between them and the dealers. This regulation raises several questions such as: is the nature of …

The Legal Nature Of Objection For Arbitration Agreement, Dr. Abdullah Abdul Rahman Al-Khatib

UAEU Law Journal

It is conceded that arbitration agreement prevents parties from filing their lawsuit before the courts. Thus, if one of the parties did not comply with this restriction and, nonetheless, resorted to the court, the respondent can preclude the claimant through an Objection to dismiss the case and refer the dispute to arbitration. The legal system in the UAE recognizes three types of objections, in which, each has its own provisions and rules. Non-observance of these rules may result in severe consequences to an extent the litigant’s right to insist it may be extinguished. As a result, it is imperative to …

Conflict Resolution From An Islamic Perspective: From Conflict Resolution To Diversity Management, Moh'd Naim Yassien, Eman Yassien

UAEU Law Journal

The paper discusses conflict resolution and management concepts provided earlier in literature. Then, using Islamic concepts and Guidance provided by the Quran, the paper shifts the perspective of conflict into a new dimension, considering diversity as the main root for our model. Diversity can be managed well to create synergy(Good outcome), or, if not managed properly, would drive to conflict which the author considers as the bad outcome of diversity , that is why the Quran regards conflict as the cause of failure. Finally, the paper introduces a new model for conflict management process based on Islamic concepts and the …

The Role Of Arbitration In Addressing The Economic Imbalance Of Investment Contracts" Part (I), Alaa El Tamimy Abdo

UAEU Law Journal

Part (1)

The investment thought, especially the foreign one, continued to take precautions and feared the risks associated with the investment in developing countries as a result of the legal instability in these countries (whether at the level of legislations or judicial decisions), national and sectarian conflicts, bureaucracy, rigidity of social structures, and lately the revolutionary movements that swept a number of Arab countries in recent times. Moreover, there are international factors that increased the severity of the aforementioned factors which had adverse effects on the investment projects and the movement of the international credit such as globalization, the information …

Arbitration In Disputes Between Traders In The Jordanian National Capital Market, Murad Mahmoud Almawajdeh

UAEU Law Journal

The Jordanian legislator has adopted voluntary arbitration system as an alternative means for the state judiciary to resolve the disputes between the traders in the national capital market of Jordan. Parties often seek to resolve their disputes through arbitration because of a number of perceived potential advantages over judicial proceedings: arbitration is often faster than litigation in court, it can be cheaper and more flexible for businesses, and arbitral proceedings are generally non-public and can be made confidential.

So, we discussed in this research the legal provisions for arbitration in light of rules and regulations of the Amman Stock Exchange …

Student Paper Topics, John Lande

Faculty Blogs

Students often have problems deciding what to write about for their course papers. This post collects blog posts with provocative ideas that students might elaborate or critique in their papers.

Peace And Conflict Studies Journal Conference, Christopher Appiah-Thompson

Peace and Conflict Studies Journal Conference

Legal Aspects Of Recognition By Virtue Of Electronic Arbitration In The 1958 New York Convention, Dr. Ziad Khalifa Al-Anzi, Abdullah Hamid Algoiri

UAEU Law Journal

The resolution instruments of e-commerce disputes and the e-arbitration have emerged and developed as the result of spreading of e-commerce. International conventions governing the arbitration have not kept pace with these developments. The Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards, also known as the "1958 New York Arbitration Convention", is the most important of these conventions. This convention deals with many legal problems of the use of electronic means of arbitration, including the requirement of traditional writing of the arbitration agreement, submitting of the original agreement certified by the competent authorities and the exchange of notifications and …