On Friday, the Supreme Court of Texas ruled that an arbitral award may not be vacated under the Texas Arbitration Act (“TAA”) based on common-law grounds.

Sarah Rudolph Cole, John W. Bricker Professor of Law and Director of the Program on Dispute Resolution at Moritz College of Law, has published “Curbing the Runaway Arbitrator in Commercial Arbitration: Making Exceeding the Powers Count,” Alabama Law Review, Forthcoming; Ohio State Public Law Working Paper No. 344.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) has proposed a plan to ban mandatory arbitration provisions in most consumer contracts entered into with banking institutions and credit card companies.

Christopher R. Leslie, Chancellor’s Professor of Law at the University of California, Irvine School of Law has published “The Arbitration Bootstrap,” Texas Law Review, Vol. 94, No. 2, 2015; UC Irvine School of Law Research Paper No. 2016-19. In his paper, Professor Leslie examines the legislative intent behind the Federal Arbitration Act and argues the law was never meant to be applied to consumer contracts.