Ann M. Lipton, Visiting Assistant Professor of Law at Duke University School of Law has published “Manufactured Consent: The Problem of Arbitration Clauses in Corporate Charters and Bylaws,” 104 Georgetown Law Journal __, Forthcoming.

A group of lawmakers led by Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren have recently expressed concerns over a proposed Trans-Pacific trade partnership between the United States and 11 other nations.

In the past few posts, we have been discussing how special masters can be part of making resolutions of disputes fair, just and efficient. Part IV focused on using special masters as hands-on managers to incentivize parties to avoid discovery disputes in the first place and to resolve discovery disputes quickly, fairly and with a minimum of expense when they do occur.

Texas’ Second District Court of Appeals in Fort Worth has ordered parties to a condominium sales contract to arbitrate their dispute despite that one purchaser failed to sign the agreement.