I recently finished another semester teaching International Commercial Dispute Resolution at New York Law School, and once more was reminded of how much one learns when one teaches. The final papers in the course were very good, and I have chosen a few to share, with the permission of the...
Tag Archives: Arbitration
I was privileged to be included in the recent European Users' Council Symposium at Tylney Hall, near Basingstoke, England, and organized by the London Court of International Arbitration. Present were international practitioners and arbitrators; inside council of global corporations who regularly use international arbitration; professors of international dispute resolution; representatives...
For the past ten years (and counting), Dr. Ivan Sutter and Oxford Health Plans have been engaged in a dispute arising from a 1998 agreement pursuant to which Dr. Sutter would provide health services to Oxford's members and Oxford would compensate the doctor at a predetermined rate. Seeking quick, efficient resolution of...
I remember attending the first meeting of the Dispute Resolution Section of the American Bar Association, in Boston, in 1999. I was on a panel discussing Y2K, and absolutely everybody I had ever met in ADR was in attendance. Y2K has since moved on, but the ABA Dispute Resolution Section...
Juris Publishing has issued a wonderful, concise and revelatory volume edited by arbitration gurus Larry Newman and Ben Shepard. Take the Witness is a collection of do's, don'ts, and real-life examples that thread the fine needle of cross-examination before a panel of international arbitrators -- many of whom are unfamiliar with,...
Two recent court decisions have bubbled through the cyber-community of ListServes and blogs. Both address attorney disqualification -- one in the context of a mediation and the other in the context of an arbitration. The latter is featured here and the former will be described in a subsequent posting. In Northwestern...
Prof. Thomas J. Stipanowich of Pepperdine University School of Law has come out with a smashingly responsible analysis of the most recent Supreme Court arbitration cases. In his article, forthcoming in the American Review of International Arbitration, Stipanowich suggests that the three recent cases -- Stolt-Nielsen, Rent-A-Center and AT&T Mobility...