Late last month, a National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) administrative law judge issued an order in Private National Mortgage Acceptance Co., LLC and Richard Smigelski, No. 20-ca-170020 (November 29, 2016).

On Monday, current International Monetary Fund (“IMF”) chief Christine Lagarde was reportedly convicted of negligence related to a controversial arbitration award that was paid while she was France’s finance minister.

The National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) is at it again. In Service Employees Int’l Union v. Montecito Heights Healthcare & Wellness Centre, LP, No. 31-CA-129747 (November 30, 2016), an NLRB administrative law judge ruled that a California-based nursing home maintained an illegal voluntary arbitration policy that asked workers to waive their right to engage in collective action in violation of the National Labor Relations Act (“NLRA”).

Susan D. Franck, Professor of Law at American University – Washington College of Law, Anne van Aaken, University of St. Gallen – Law Department and Max Planck Society for the Advancement of the Sciences – Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, James Freda, attorney and diplomat at the United Nations, Chris Guthrie, Dean and John Wade-Kent Syverud Professor of Law at Vanderbilt University – Law School, and Jeffrey J. Rachlinski, Henry Allen Mark Professor of Law at Cornell Law School, have published “Inside the Arbitrator’s Mind,” Emory Law Journal, Vol. 66, Forthcoming.