Roland Goss, Partner at Jordon Burt, LLP, has compiled a useful summary of recent arbitration confirmation cases. Disputing would like to thank Mr. Goss for allowing us to share it here:

University of Missouri School of Law Professor S. I. Strong has authored Why is Harmonization of Common Law and Civil Law Procedures Possible in Arbitration but Not Litigation?, Book Chapter in Cultura y Proceso (Mónica María Bustamante Rúa ed., 2013, Forthcoming); University of Missouri School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2013-12.

Maureen Weston, Professor of Law at Pepperdine University School of Law, has published a timely article entitled, The Accidental Preemption Statute: The Federal Arbitration Act and Displacement of Agency Regulation, 6 Penn. St. Y.B. on Arb. & Mediation 59 (2013); Pepperdine University Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2013/15.

In an unpublished opinion, the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a lower court’s refusal to vacate an arbitration award and reopen a case despite alleged arbitrator misconduct.