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Securities Dispute Resolution Triathlon

I’ve been discussing ADR in bankruptcy, but I wanted to take a detour to mention the Securities Dispute Resolution Triathlon we’re holding at St. John’s this weekend.  Our Hugh Carey Center for Dispute Resolution is working in conjunction with FINRA to host the competition.  We’re pretty sure it’s the first competition to include negotiation, mediation, … Continue reading Securities Dispute Resolution Triathlon

ADR Meets Bankruptcy, Part 3 – Enforcing Arbitration Agreements

At the ADR Meets Bankruptcy conference at St. John’s, I sat on a panel with Steve Ware and Marianne Culhane that addressed the enforcement of pre-petition arbitration agreements in bankruptcy.  The panel was moderated by Alan Resnick, who had written on the topic a couple of years ago. Several interesting points came out of the … Continue reading ADR Meets Bankruptcy, Part 3 – Enforcing Arbitration Agreements

ADR Meets Bankruptcy, Pt. 2 – Designing Dispute Systems

Dispute systems design is an emerging part of the broader discipline of dispute resolution, as evidenced by, among other things, the conference on dispute systems design at Harvard last year featuring Andrea and Michael, among many others.  When scholars in the dispute resolution community think of concrete examples of domestic dispute systems design, we often … Continue reading ADR Meets Bankruptcy, Pt. 2 – Designing Dispute Systems