Tag Archives: Arbitration

Arbitration|Conflict Resolution|Courts

Public Courts as Private Arbitration Panels

Arbitration|Conflict Resolution|Courts

Public Courts as Private Arbitration Panels

Tom Stipanowich called the Delaware Court of Chancery's arbitration program "a veritable trifecta of procedural advantages for commercial parties, including expert adjudication, efficient case management and short cycle time and, above all, a proceeding cloaked in secrecy."  But he warned that its constitutionality was in doubt.  Now the Third Circuit...

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Arbitration|Mediation

New AAA Arbitration Rules

Arbitration|Mediation

New AAA Arbitration Rules

The American Arbitration Association has issued new Commercial Arbitration Rules effective October 1, 2013.  The changes seem designed to better serve disputants and enhance the commercial rationality of arbitration under the AAA's auspices.  As to be expected from the AAA, they are elegant and reflect the thinking of many stakeholders....

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Arbitration|International

"Efficiency" in International Arbitration: Last Night's Martini?

Arbitration|International

"Efficiency" in International Arbitration: Last Night's Martini?

During a recent meeting of the Dispute Resolution Committee of the ABA Business Law Section, GE Oil & Gas Assistant General Counsel Mike McIlwrath shared some cogent and stimulating -- and personal -- observations on the responsibility that corporate end-users must take for the process of international arbitration.  Soon after...

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Arbitration|Courts

Challenging Awards for Lack of Disclosure

Arbitration|Courts

Challenging Awards for Lack of Disclosure

The May 2013 issue of the IBA Dispute Resolution Section's journal, Dispute Resolution International, has a concise and compelling article by Mark H. Alcott addressing "Post-Award Attacks on Arbitrators."  The title speaks for itself: the author is harshly critical of challenges to arbitral impartiality that are first asserted after an...

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Arbitration|International

Arbitration in India

Arbitration|International

Arbitration in India

Once again I have had the privilege of teaching the excellent students at New York Law School in International Commercial Dispute Resolution, and once again it has resulted in some superb pieces of written research.  Here is the work of Somya Kaushik, who will be graduating in a few weeks...

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Arbitration|Conflict Resolution|Mediation

How Fortune 1000 Companies Use ADR

Arbitration|Conflict Resolution|Mediation

How Fortune 1000 Companies Use ADR

Last year, a survey was conducted among senior in-house counsel of the Fortune 1000, to follow-up on the findings of the influential 1997 Cornell survey.  Thomas J. Stipanowich of Pepperdine and J. Ryan Lamare of Penn State have now prepared an analysis of that new survey, and in an important...

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