I am passing along a deadline remider for a Call for Papers from the Oregon Law Review: Oregon Law Review is currently accepting submissions for a special themed issue of our 90th volume. Called “ADR for the Masses,” this special issue will address appropriate dispute resolution in the context of mass torts, mass settlements, and large-scale public … Continue reading Call for Papers: ADR for the Masses – Oregon Law Review
At the Securities Arbitration 2011 program at the Practising Law Institute a few weeks ago (which I Chaired), Linda Fienberg, President of FINRA Dispute Resolution, announced that FINRA has developed a program to permit its arbitration forum to administer disputes between investors and registered investment advisers. FINRA has developed this plan because the SEC is … Continue reading FINRA Ready to Offer Arbitration Forum for Investment Advisers
Here’s an announcement from the HNLR: Please save the date for the Harvard Negotiation Law Review’s annual Symposium, which is being planned in collaboration with the Program on Negotiation and the Harvard Negotiation & Mediation Clinical Program. The Symposium will be held on February 25, 2012. The full-day event will take a close look … Continue reading Save the Date – Harvard Negotiation Law Review Symposium
Sean Nolon (U. Vermont) recently published an article related to environmental conflict resolution. In the article, Sean describes how different forms of consensus-building can be used to site wind turbines and create wind energy policy. A link to the article on SSRN is here. It is entitled Negotiating the Wind: A Framework to Engage Citizens in … Continue reading ADR, Consensus-Building and Wind Energy Policy
Thanks to the Securities Arbitration Commentator’s Arbitration Alert service, I recently learned that the New York State Legislature is considering legislation to amend New York’s arbitration law to add a specific bias ground for vacatur. The bill already passed through the State Assembly as A7002A-2011, and has now been introduced in the State Senate as … Continue reading New York State Legislature Considers Adding Vacatur Ground
Rick Bales (Northern Kentucky) at the Workplace Prof Blog, via a hat tip to the Law Librarian Blog, via the Chronicle of Higher Education (boy, that’s a lot of “vias”!) describes a lower court’s recent application of Concepcion to a motion to compel arbitration of a student’s claim against Westwood College for misrepresenting its tuition … Continue reading Concepcion Applied to Students’ Claims Against College
Over the past few weeks, I have attended two separate, equally fabulous conferences focusing on legal education pedagogy and practice (the Institute for Law Teaching and Learning conference at New York Law School entitled “Engaging and Assessing our Students” and the AALS Section on Clinical Legal Education Conference in Seattle entitled “Learning for Transfer”). I … Continue reading Teaching Problem-Solving
In the shameless art of self-promotion category, I am announcing that registration is open for PLI’s annual continuing legal education program on Securities Arbitration, which I am chairing. I am posting here the formal announcement: In the past year, FINRA sought SEC approval of major rule changes empowering customers to choose an all-public panel in … Continue reading Annual PLI Securities Arbitration Program
Late last week, the Second Circuit affirmed a denial of a vacatur motion in the context of a $400 million FINRA arbitration award. In STMicroelectronics, N.V. v. Credit Suisse Securities (USA), LLC, Docket No. 10-3847-cv (2d Cir. June 2, 2011), Credit Suisse moved to vacate an award against it arising out of its sale of … Continue reading Second Circuit Affirms $400 Million FINRA Arbitration Award
As Art mentioned yesterday, the Supreme Court, in CompuCredit Corp. v. Greenwood, 79 U.S.L.W. 3442, 2011 WL 220683 (U.S. May 2, 2011), agreed to decide next term the following Question Presented: “Whether claims arising under the Credit Repair Organizations Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1679 et seq., are subject to arbitration pursuant to a valid arbitration … Continue reading Supreme Court Grants Cert to Decide Arbitrability of Federal Claim
