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Well, it’s been a while since we published and that is about to change. Since I spent much of last year becoming
JAMS Welcomes Karl Bayer to its Panel of Neutrals
JAMS, the world’s largest private alternative dispute resolution (ADR) provider, is pleased to announce that Karl Bayer
Class Action Waivers in Arbitration Agreements: The Twenty-First Century Arbitration Battleground and Implications for the EU Countries
Linda S. Mullenix, Morris & Rita Atlas Chair in Advocacy at the University of Texas School of Law, has written “Class Ac
Picking the Proper Technological Tool for Problem-Solving in Arbitration
Professor Amy J. Schmitz, John Deaver Drinko-Baker & Hostetler Chair in Law and Co-Director of the Translational Data An

CFPB Proposal Would Allow Consumers to Forego Arbitration in Favor of Class Litigation

By Beth Graham - October 8, 2015

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) is reportedly considering implementing new regulations that would stop banks and other financial institutions from requiring consumers to settle disputes through binding arbitration.

Corporate Power Unbound: Investor-State Arbitration of IP Monopolies on Medicines

By Beth Graham - October 7, 2015

Northeastern University School of Law Professor Brook K. Baker and Katrina Geddes, Master in Public Policy Candidate at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, have written a thought provoking article entitled, “Corporate Power Unbound: Investor-State Arbitration of IP Monopolies on Medicines – Eli Lilly v. Canada and the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement,” Northeastern University School of Law Research Paper No. 242-2015.

Customized Procedure in Theory and Reality

By Beth Graham - September 28, 2015

Mark C. Weidemaier, Assistant Professor of Law at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill School of Law, has published “Customized Procedure in Theory and Reality,” Washington and Lee Law Review, Vol. 72, No. 4, 2015.

Judge Finds Ride Sharing Company’s Arbitration Agreement With Network Drivers is Substantively Unconscionable

By Beth Graham - September 25, 2015

A California judge has reportedly declined to order a dispute between transportation network company Uber and a former driver to arbitration. In the case, a San Francisco Superior Court judge ruled that the arbitration clause between the parties was “substantively unconscionable” due to its contradictory language.

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Gateway-Schmateway: An Exchange between George Bermann and Alan Rau

By Beth Graham - May 25, 2016

The transcript of an interesting discussion between Professor Alan Scott Rau, Mark G. and Judy G. Yudof Chair in Law at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law and affiliated faculty member of the Kay Bailey Hutchison Center for Energy, Law, and Business, and Professor George Bermann, Jean Monnet Professor of EU Law, Walter Gellhorn Professor of Law, and Director of the Center for International Commercial and Investment Arbitration at Columbia University Law School, that was held last year at Pepperdine University School of Law’s “International Arbitration and the Courts,” symposium has been published.