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Arbitration, Mediation and Mixed Modes: Seeking Workable Solutions and Common Ground on Med-Arb, Arb-Med and Settlement-Oriented Activities by Arbitrators
By Beth Graham - November 17, 2020
Professor Thomas J. Stipanowich, William H. Webster Chair in Dispute Resolution at Pepperdine University's Caruso School of Law and Associate Dean of the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution, has published “Arbitration, Mediation and Mixed Modes: Seeking Workable Solutions and Common Ground on Med-Arb, Arb-Med and Settlement-Oriented Activities by Arbitrators,” Harvard Negotiation Law Review, Forthcoming; Pepperdine University Legal Studies Re
The International Evolution of Mediation: A Call for Dialogue and Deliberation
By Beth Graham - January 13, 2016
Thomas Stipanowich, Academic Director at the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution, William H. Webster Chair in Dispute Resolution, and Professor of Law at Pepperdine University School of Law, has published “The International Evolution of Mediation: A Call for Dialogue and Deliberation,” 46 Victoria University of Wellington Law Review 1191 (2015); Pepperdine University Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2016/1.
ABA / Straus Institute Survey of Corporate Counsel
By Thomas J. Stipanowich - July 18, 2014
One of the three recent surveys undertaken by the Straus Institute in 2013 as part of the Theory-to-Practice Research Project was a survey of corporate counsel co-sponsored by the American Bar Association’s Section on Public Utilities, Communication and Transportation (PUCAT) ADR Committee. The Institute’s work was conducted pursuant to a contractual agreement with PUCAT.
International Academy of Mediators (IAM) / Straus Institute Survey on Mediator Practices and Perceptions
By Thomas J. Stipanowich - July 16, 2014
The IAM-Straus Institute Survey on Mediator Practices and Perceptions, was conducted in the spring of 2014 and is one of the three recent surveys carried out by the Straus Institute under the umbrella of the Theory-to-Practice Research Project. It was facilitated by a grant from the IAM.
College of Commercial Arbitrators (CCA) / Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution Survey on Arbitration Practice (Fall 2013)
By Thomas J. Stipanowich - July 14, 2014
The CCA-Straus Institute Survey on Arbitration Practice, one of the Straus Institute’s three recent surveys under the Theory-to-Practice Research Project, consisted of 65 multiple-choice and short-answer questions on respondents’ arbitration experiences and opinions on arbitration practices and the future of the arbitration field-at-large.
Article | National Roundtable on Consumer and Employment Dispute Resolution: Consumer Arbitration Roundtable Summary Report
By Victoria VanBuren - July 3, 2012
Professors Thomas Stipanowich (Pepperdine University School of Law), Nancy Welsh (Penn State University School of Law), Lisa Blomgren Bingham (Indiana University Bloomington), and Lawrence R. Mills have posted “National Roundtable on Consumer and Employment Dispute Resolution: Consumer Arbitration Roundtable Summary Report” on SSRN. The abstract is: Building upon the work of the ABA Dispute Resolution Section’s Consumer Arbitrat
Article | The Arbitration Fairness Index: Using a Public Rating System to Skirt the Legal Logjam and Promote Fairer and More Effective Arbitration of Employment and Consumer Disputes
By Victoria VanBuren - March 12, 2012
We invite you to check out Professor Thomas J. Stipanowich’s (pictured right) latest article: The Arbitration Fairness Index: Using a Public Rating System to Skirt the Legal Logjam and Promote Fairer and More Effective Arbitration of Employment and Consumer Disputes. The piece is being published in an arbitration symposium issue of the Kansas Law Review, but it is now available for download here. The abstract is as follows: Recent Supreme C
Article | Revelation and Reaction: The Struggle to Shape American Arbitration
By Beth Graham - January 28, 2011
Last week, Thomas J. Stipanowich, William H. Webster Chair in Dispute Resolution and Professor of Law at Pepperdine School of Law, and Academic Director of the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution, was the keynote speaker at Fordham Law School’s Fifth Annual Alternative Dispute Resolution Symposium. At the Symposium, Professor Stipanowich presented a paper entitled “Revelation and Reaction: The Struggle to Shape American Arbitration.” The pape
GUEST-POST | Is Arbitration the “New Litigation”?: The Choice is Yours
By Beth Graham - January 25, 2011
by Thomas J. Stipanowich (Editor’s note: An earlier version of this posting was published in the Los Angeles and San Francisco Daily Journals.) “Because of expense and delay, both civil bench trials and civil jury trials are disappearing.” So says a task force co-sponsored by—of all groups—the American College of Trial Lawyers. Litigation often costs so much and takes so long, they acknowledge, that parties nearly always settle or stop suin
GUEST-POST | Professor Stipanowich Comments on Stolt-Nielsen v. AnimalFeeds
By Victoria VanBuren - April 28, 2010
By Thomas J. Stipanowich The thrust of the majority opinion authored by Justice Alito was to shun the rationale of the plurality in the Court’s earlier decision in Green Tree Financial Corp. v. Bazzle, 539 U.S. 444 (2003)), which characterized the question of whether class arbitration as a matter of “procedure” growing out of the dispute. Instead, the majority founded its decision on Supreme Court “precedents [under the FA
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