Professor Alan Scott Rau

Professor Alan Scott Rau sent the following comments to Karl in response to our thoughts about his recent article on Hall Street v. Mattel. They are helpful, and they raise a question for our readers, that is, for lawyers in the trenches in Texas. The [unedited] comments follow: Two points, one small, one rather larger: I’m not entirely sure that parties do still have the option of using arbitration to generate “an agreed statement of

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A couple weeks ago, Prof. Rau over at the law school (with whom Karl has co-spoken about arbitration at a number of CLE programs) sent us a copy of his recent dissection of the Hall Street vs. Mattel Supreme Court opinion (link is to .pdf file), about which we blogged when it came out. The Professor, ahem, is not impressed with either the result or the handiwork: What truly appalled me about Hall Street, however, is not so much the unfortunate re

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