Despina Mavromati, Managing Counsel and Head of Research & Mediation at the Court of Arbitration for Sport, has written a timely paper entitled, “The Rules of the CAS Anti-Doping Division and the CAS Ad Hoc Division at the Olympic Games.”

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Texas’s Fourth District Court of Appeals in San Antonio has ruled that a firefighter was collaterally estopped from challenging arbitration in a dispute over his medical benefits.

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Some forms of crowdsourced dispute resolution currently exist online. These dispute resolution processes can be put into three general categories: Opinion polls, online mock juries, and privately enforced crowdsourced dispute resolution.

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by Renée Kolar Oscar Pistorius made history Saturday by becoming the first double-amputee to compete in the able-bodied Olympics. Pistorius is a South African sprinter who was born without a fibula in either leg, and had both legs amputated when he was only 11 months old. To participate in sporting activities, Pistorius uses two high-performance carbon-fiber prosthetics, known as the Cheetah Flex-Foot. Controversy regarding Mr. Pistorius’ use of

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The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has launched an International Survey on Dispute Resolution in Technology Transactions. The survey was “developed with the support of the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI), the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM), the Fédération Internationale des Conseils en Propriété Industrielle (FICPI) and the Licensing Executives Society Internatio

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