Within President Obama’s proposal to reform the financial services sector, A New Foundation: Rebuilding Financial Supervision and Regulation, there is a provision that directs the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to study the use of mandatory arbitration clauses in investor contracts. Check out Professor Barbara Black’s discussion of the proposal in her post First Look at the Administration’s Financial Regulatory Reform and the Wall Street Journal’s post The Beginning of the End of Mandatory Arbitration? We welcome your commentary!
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