Professor Susan D. Franck, Washington and Lee University School of Law, James Freda, Office of the Special Representative to the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict, Kellen Lavin, Research Assistant at Washington and Lee University School of Law, Tobias A. Lehmann, Doctoral Candidate at the University of St. Gallen School of Law, and Anne Van Aaken, Professor of Law and Economics at the University of St. Gallen and Research Affiliate at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods have published “The Diversity Challenge: Exploring the ‘Invisible College’ of International Arbitration,” Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, Vol. 53, Page 429, 2015.

The United States Supreme Court has declined to review a Supreme Court of Texas decision overturning a $26 million arbitration award. In Robert L. Myer, et al. v. Americo Life, Inc., et al., No. 14-774, a divided Texas Supreme Court overturned a unanimous arbitration award after the American Arbitration Association (“AAA”) disqualified one party’s selected arbitrator due to partiality.

The Litigation Section of the State Bar of Texas recently published Don Philbin’s article entitled “Checkmate: Early Moves Define Negotiation Outcomes” in its newsletter.

Judith Resnik, Arthur Liman Professor of Law at Yale Law School, has published “Diffusing Disputes: The Public in the Private of Arbitration, the Private in Courts, and the Erasure of Rights,” 124 Yale Law Journal 2015. In her article, Professor Resnik provides a different perspective regarding the effect recent Supreme Court precedent pertaining to class waivers has had on arbitration in the United States.