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Re-Examination Of Litigation Trends In The United States: Galanter Reconsidered, A, Kenyon D. Bunch, Richard J. Hardy

Journal of Dispute Resolution

The general commentary on recent litigation patterns in the United States depicts a worrisome, and occasionally panicked, scenario often called the "litigation explosion."' The commentaries characteristically direct attention to a supposed "epidemic of hair-trigger suing" burying the courts under an "avalanche" of civil actions. 2 Moreover, judicial scholars proffer a myriad of purported explanations for the alleged prodigious growth in the number of civil lawsuits. The common theme throughout these explanations is that changes or disruptions in our social, economic, political-legal environments have caused Americans to become a contentious and overly-litigious people.

The Case For A Legislative Solution To Indian Water Claims, James M. Bush

The Federal Impact on State Water Rights (Summer Conference, June 11-13)

57 pages.

Drafting The Arbitration Clause, Whitmore Gray

Book Chapters

Providing in the contract for ways to resolve disputes that may arise presents a substantial challenge to the lawyer. In one sense this is what he or she is doing in general in contract drafting--anticipating misunderstandings or problems which experience indicates are likely to arise, and trying to provide clear answers in advance. When it comes to drafting a specific clause for the resolution of further disputes which may arise, however, many lawyers are at a substantial disadvantage. The task comes at the end of the substantive negotiations. The client does not want to focus on or draw the other …

The Need To Utilize International Arbitration, Gerald Aksen

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

I have been asked to discuss how to convince United States businessmen of the need for utilizing international arbitration. Basically, however, there is a realistic need for this well recognized form of alternative dispute settlement. Primarily, international arbitration affords companies the ability to avoid the uncertainties and complexities of foreign litigation. I found it interesting that Professor Vagts used the word "paradox" in referring to the existence of both the lack of effective treaties on the enforcement of foreign judgments and the host of treaties on the enforcement of foreign arbitral awards. Why is it a paradox? International arbitration was …

Comparative Approaches To Groundwater Management, Robert D. Hayton

Groundwater: Allocation, Development and Pollution (Summer Conference, June 6-9)

38 pages.

Ground Water Monitoring System And Procedures At Kin-Buc I Landfill Middlesex County New Jersey, Dan D. Raviv

Groundwater: Allocation, Development and Pollution (Summer Conference, June 6-9)

37 pages (includes illustrations and map).

Agenda: Groundwater: Allocation, Development And Pollution, University Of Colorado Boulder. Natural Resources Law Center

Groundwater: Allocation, Development and Pollution (Summer Conference, June 6-9)

Even before the [Natural Resources Law] Center was established [in the fall of 1981], the [University of Colorado] School of Law was organizing annual natural resources law summer short courses. To date four programs have been presented:

- July 1980: "Federal Lands, Laws and Policies-and the Development of Natural Resources"

- June 1981: "Water Resources Allocation: Laws and Emerging Issues"

- June 1982: "New Sources of Water for Energy Development and Growth: lnterbasin Transfers"

- June 1983: "Groundwater: Allocation; Development and Pollution"

(Reprinted from Resource Law Notes, no. 1, Jan. 1984, at 1.)

University of Colorado School of Law professors …

Agenda: Water Resources Allocation: Laws And Emerging Issues: A Short Course, University Of Colorado Boulder. Natural Resources Law Center

Water Resources Allocation: Laws and Emerging Issues: A Short Course (Summer Conference, June 8-11)

Even before the [Natural Resources Law] Center was established [in the fall of 1981], the [University of Colorado] School of Law was organizing annual natural resources law summer short courses. To date four programs have been presented:

- July 1980: "Federal Lands, Laws and Policies-and the Development of Natural Resources"

- June 1981: "Water Resources Allocation: Laws and Emerging Issues"

- June 1982: "New Sources of Water for Energy Development and Growth: lnterbasin Transfers"

- June 1983: "Groundwater: Allocation; Development and Pollution"

(Reprinted from Resource Law Notes, no. 1, Jan. 1984, at 1.)

Speakers and instructors for this short course …

Quantification Of Federal And Indian Reserved Rights Through Negotiation [Outline], Daniel M. Rosenfelt

Water Resources Allocation: Laws and Emerging Issues: A Short Course (Summer Conference, June 8-11)

2 pages.