The Assault Of Jamie Leigh Jones: How One Woman's Horror Story Is Changing Arbitration In America,
2012
Pepperdine University
The Assault Of Jamie Leigh Jones: How One Woman's Horror Story Is Changing Arbitration In America, Jeffrey Adams
Pepperdine Dispute Resolution Law Journal
This article examines Jones v. Halliburton Co., the "Al Franken Amendment" to the 2010 U.S. Defense Department Budget (Franken Amendment) that was created in response to Jones, and the impact that both could have on mandatory arbitration clauses in employment contracts in the future. Part II recounts the troubling events that led to Jones and the inclusion of the Franken Amendment in the 2010 Defense Department Budget. Part III details the arguments made for and against the inclusion of the Franken Amendment. Part IV analyzes the impact that the Franken Amendment could have on mandatory arbitration clauses in contacts in …
Collaborative Practice's Radical Possibilities For The Legal Profession:"[Two Lawyers And Two Clients] For The Situation" ,
2012
Pepperdine University
Collaborative Practice's Radical Possibilities For The Legal Profession:"[Two Lawyers And Two Clients] For The Situation" , Robert F. Cochran Jr.
Pepperdine Dispute Resolution Law Journal
This article will consider the two dramatic changes that collaborative practice [CP] brings to law practice: a change in the mental attitude of lawyers and clients toward the conflict and a change in lawyers' counseling techniques. Part II defines CP and compares it to traditional negotiation-pending-litigation. Part III considers the change in attorney and client mental attitudes wrought by CP, where both lawyers and clients take responsibility for identifying a resolution that will meet the needs of all of the parties. Part IV considers the type of client-counseling that is often generated by CP-lawyers in CP may strongly encourage clients …
Clouded Diamonds: Without Binding Arbitration And More Sophisticated Dispute Resolution Mechanisms, The Kimberley Process Will Ultimately Fail In Ending Conflicts Fueled By Blood Diamonds ,
2012
Pepperdine University
Clouded Diamonds: Without Binding Arbitration And More Sophisticated Dispute Resolution Mechanisms, The Kimberley Process Will Ultimately Fail In Ending Conflicts Fueled By Blood Diamonds , Shannon K. Murphy
Pepperdine Dispute Resolution Law Journal
In 2003, under an initiative of the United Nations (U.N.), various nations of the world gave life to the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS)-a method by which consumers of all levels could know the origin of their diamonds-with the Scheme only certifying those harvested from legal, government-run mines. The Scheme's drafters believed that, if given the choice, consumers would choose to buy diamonds mined legally, with profits flowing to legitimate sources of power. However, the KPCS as it stands is voluntary and lacks the teeth needed to deter its violators. The KPCS lacks a binding arbitration agreement and needs a …
Multi-Stakeholder Dispute Resolution: Building Social Capital Through Access To Justice At The Community Level ,
2012
Pepperdine University
Multi-Stakeholder Dispute Resolution: Building Social Capital Through Access To Justice At The Community Level , Shala Ali, Williams E. Davis, Joanna Lee
Pepperdine Dispute Resolution Law Journal
Systems of multi-stakeholder dispute resolution are increasingly recognized as objectives of good governance by international organizations such as the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). Such objectives arise out of insights based on the dynamics of social capital that community based initiatives cannot succeed where trust is absent and mechanisms for collective decision-making do not exist. Yet localized decision-making can take many forms-whether distributional, competitive, or collaborative. This paper will examine, in particular, the impact of collaborative systems of decision-making on building social capital through access to justice in local communities. It will do this through examining participant feedback, meeting minutes, …
Milwaukee Brewers Arbitration Hearings Chart,
2012
University of Notre Dame
Milwaukee Brewers Arbitration Hearings Chart, Edmund P. Edmonds
Team Hearing Charts
No abstract provided.
Brewers Players Arbitration Results,
2012
University of Notre Dame
Brewers Players Arbitration Results, Edmund P. Edmonds
Team - Player Results
No abstract provided.
Foreclosure By Arbitration?,
2012
Pepperdine University
Foreclosure By Arbitration?, R. Wilson Freyermuth
Pepperdine Law Review
No abstract provided.
Mlb Minimum And Average Salaries 1967-2012,
2012
University of Notre Dame
Mlb Minimum And Average Salaries 1967-2012, Edmund P. Edmonds
Minimum and Average Salaries
No abstract provided.
A "Lawyer For All Seasons": The Lawyer As Conflict Manager,
2012
University of San Diego
A "Lawyer For All Seasons": The Lawyer As Conflict Manager, Michael T. Colatrella Jr.
San Diego Law Review
This interdisciplinary Article explores why interpersonal conflict management principles and skills are essential to good lawyering and, thus, why law schools should teach these principles and skills to all their students. In demonstrating the immense practical value an understanding of interpersonal conflict management principles and skills have in the practice of law, this Article examines case studies involving organizations that have dramatically reduced legal costs, among other benefits, by abandoning a solely legalistic approach to conflict and embracing conflict management principles. The lessons learned from these studies and the interpersonal conflict management principles that underlie them support the idea that …
From Adr To Odr: Can Technology Shape The Future Of Mediation Practice?,
2012
Singapore Management University
From Adr To Odr: Can Technology Shape The Future Of Mediation Practice?, Nadja Alexander
Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law
Imagine an e-mediator who can reframe parties’ feelings and overall mood based on their speech patterns as they talk into an ODR program. Imagine recreating the real-life intensity of emotional and social connections through an avatar in an online mediation setting. Imagine anonymous brainstorming, secret meetings in e-rooms and having access to a web-based intelligent agent to advise parties on walkaway alternatives and interest-based trade-offs. No, this is not a science-fiction film—it is ODR technology, the mediation world biggest kept secret.
Some Too (Or Blessedly) Short Responses To Five Thoughtful Readers,
2012
Pepperdine University
Some Too (Or Blessedly) Short Responses To Five Thoughtful Readers, Sanford Levinson
Pepperdine Law Review
No abstract provided.
Levinson Is To Mr. Justice "Isaiah" As St. Paul Was To The Prophet Isaiah,
2012
Pepperdine University
Levinson Is To Mr. Justice "Isaiah" As St. Paul Was To The Prophet Isaiah, Richard H. Weisberg
Pepperdine Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Variable Morality Of Constitutional (And Other) Compromises: A Comment On Sanford
Levinson's Compromise And Constitutionalism,
2012
Pepperdine University
The Variable Morality Of Constitutional (And Other) Compromises: A Comment On Sanford Levinson's Compromise And Constitutionalism, Carrie Menkel-Meadow
Pepperdine Law Review
This comment to Sanford Levinson's Brandeis lecture at Pepperdine focuses on the role and types of compromises made during several stages of constitutional processes, formative and constitutive, interpretive and on-going, as negotiated by Constitutional meaning makers (drafters and Supreme Court 'deciders'), and post hoc justifications. This essay discusses recent work on compromise as institutional design, pragmatic or principled, and regime defining and sustaining. Both the pejorative (compromise is unprincipled) and more positive (compromise accounts for the 'reality' and moral existence of different sides of an issue or polity) understandings of compromise are reviewed, in light of Professor Levinson's scholarship on …
Lessons From Lincoln: A Comment On Levinson,
2012
Pepperdine University
Lessons From Lincoln: A Comment On Levinson, Steven D. Smith
Pepperdine Law Review
No abstract provided.
Compromise And Constitutionalism,
2012
Pepperdine University
Compromise And Constitutionalism, Sanford Levinson
Pepperdine Law Review
Professor Levinson explores compromises (1) that went into the making of the United States Constitution, and (2) that have occurred in the Supreme Court's constitutional interpretation. He explores these compromises in light of Israeli philosopher Avishai Margalit's distinction between bad compromises and rotten compromises. "Rotten compromises" are indefensible except, perhaps, in the most exceptional of conditions. A "rotten political compromise" is one that agrees "to establish or maintain an inhuman regime, a regime of cruelty and humiliation, that is, a regime that does not treat humans as humans." Under this standard, Levinson identifies as rotten compromises the Constitution's protection of …
The Cost Of Compromise And The Covenant With Death,
2012
Pepperdine University
The Cost Of Compromise And The Covenant With Death, Paul Finkelman
Pepperdine Law Review
This article is a rebuttal to the writings of those advocating the view that America was formed through compromise and that compromise in modern constitutional law is, therefore, necessary and beneficial. A recount of the “compromises” at the Constitutional Conventional that eventually led to the approval and protection of slavery begins the analysis establishing the danger of Americans compromising over constitutional protections. The article continues on, discussing the Compromise of 1850 and its drafters whom others have considered “passionately devoted to the Union”, like John Calhoun, who would later assert that the Constitution was expendable. The Compromise of 1850 did …
Introduction: Blessed Are The Compromisers?,
2012
Pepperdine University
Introduction: Blessed Are The Compromisers?, Robert F. Cochran Jr.
Pepperdine Law Review
No abstract provided.
Manifest' Destiny: The Fate Of The 'Manifest Disregard Of The Law' Doctrine After Hall Street V. Mattel,
2012
Pepperdine University
Manifest' Destiny: The Fate Of The 'Manifest Disregard Of The Law' Doctrine After Hall Street V. Mattel, Karly A. Kauf
The Journal of Business, Entrepreneurship & the Law
The Federal Arbitration Act was enacted in 1925 in reaction to widespread judicial resistance to arbitration. While it is difficult to imagine that the drafters of this legislation could have envisioned how prominent arbitration would become in the United States, it is clear that their intention was to ensure that contracts to arbitrate would be enforced and that the intent of the parties would be maintained. In the more than eighty years since the passage of the Act, courts have repeatedly been called on to interpret the Act in order to determine its effect on real world situations. Recently, the …
Class-Less? An Analysis Of The California Supreme Court's Denial Of Employers' Right To Use Class Arbitration Waivers In Employment Agreements In Gentry V. Superior Court,
2012
Pepperdine University
Class-Less? An Analysis Of The California Supreme Court's Denial Of Employers' Right To Use Class Arbitration Waivers In Employment Agreements In Gentry V. Superior Court, Michael B. Cooper
The Journal of Business, Entrepreneurship & the Law
No abstract provided.
Arbitration Of Investors' Claims Against Issuers: An Idea Whose Time Has Come,
2012
University of Cincinnati College of Law
Arbitration Of Investors' Claims Against Issuers: An Idea Whose Time Has Come, Barbara Black
Faculty Articles and Other Publications
Ever since the U.S. Supreme Court held that arbitration provisions contained in brokerage customers’ agreements were enforceable with respect to federal securities claims, proposals have been floated to include in an issuer’s governance documents a provision that would require arbitration of investors’ claims against the issuer. To date, however, publicly traded domestic issuers and their counsel have not seriously pursued these proposals, probably because of several legal obstacles to implementation. In addition to these legal obstacles, publicly traded issuers may not have perceived significant advantages to arbitration. Recent legal developments, however, make inclusion of an arbitration provision in a publicly …
