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Texas Legislative Roundup April 3, 2013

By Beth Graham - April 3, 2013

The following bills relating to arbitration were introduced during the ongoing 83rd Texas legislative session. The last day of the regular session will be Monday, May 27, 2013. Please click on the bill number to read its text and on the status link to find the bill’s legislative history.

Part One: A Brief History of ADR and Corporate Perception

By Karl Bayer - April 2, 2013

The following is part 1 of a 5 part overview of Professors Thomas Stipanowich (Pepperdine University School of Law) and J. Ryan Lamare (Pennsylvania State University) paper entitled “Living with ‘ADR’: Evolving Perceptions and Use of Mediation, Arbitration and Conflict Management in Fortune 1,000 Corporations.”

S.D. Texas Holds Arbitral Agreement Enforceable in Employment Dispute

By Beth Graham - April 2, 2013

The Southern District of Texas has compelled a dispute between an oil worker and his former employer to arbitration. Because the parties entered into a valid agreement to arbitrate, the Southern District of Texas granted Brand’s motion to dismiss the case and compelled the employment dispute to arbitration.

Arbitrating ‘Arbitrability’

By Beth Graham - April 1, 2013

Professor Alan S. Rau, Mark G. and Judy G. Yudof Chair in Law at the University of Texas School of Law, has published a paper entitled Arbitrating ‘Arbitrability’, World Arbitration and Mediation Review, 2013; U of Texas Law, Public Law Research Paper. In his paper, Professor Rau examines threshold challenges to the use of arbitration in both international and domestic commercial disputes. Here is the abstract: It is quite common, in