Thomas J. Stipanowich, Academic Director of the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution, William H. Webster Chair in Dispute Resolution, and Professor of Law at the Pepperdine University School of Law, and Zachary P. Ulrich, Research Fellow at the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution, have published Commercial Arbitration and Settlement: Empirical Insights into the Roles Arbitrators Play, 6 Penn State Yearbook on Arbitration and Mediation 1 (2014); Pepperdine University Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2014/20.

The United States Supreme Court has reportedly denied a petition asking the court to consider whether an arbitration agreement precludes a wrongful death claim against a nursing home.

An interesting case decided by the California Supreme Court overturned the court’s prior holding that class and collective arbitration waivers violate public policy and also recognized that the issue is preempted by the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA).

Professor E. H. Morreim, University of Tennessee Health Science Center- College of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, has published a timely article entitled, In-House Conflict Resolution Processes: Health Lawyers as Problem-Solvers, The Health Lawyer 2014; 25(3): 10-14.