Businesses cite arbitration as a way to avoid aberrant jury verdicts, implicitly if not explicitly assuming that arbitrators make better decisions than juries. By contrast, consumer advocates criticize arbitration as a way for businesses to avoid paying damages to deserving claimants, effectively assuming that juries make better decisions than arbitrators. These conflicting perspectives pose an important question in the debate over predispute arbitration clauses in consumer contracts: How do decisions by arbitrators compare to decisions by juries
Arbitrators are lead actors in global dispute resolution. They are to global dispute resolution what...
Courts have become increasingly likely in recent years to find class arbitration waivers in consumer...
Most fields of law provide guidance on how courts decide cases. In contrast, arbitration law tells j...
Businesses cite arbitration as a way to avoid aberrant jury verdicts, implicitly if not explicitly a...
This article helps build the empirical foundation necessary for an informed debate regarding arbitra...
Arbitration clauses now appear in many of the form contracts through which consumers obtain goods, s...
Published in cooperation with the American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolutio
This seminar examines the effects that the private selection of arbitrators has over arbitrators' in...
Much of what makes civil litigation in the United States materially different from civil litigation ...
We conducted a study of contractual practices by well-known firms marketing consumer products, compa...
Published in cooperation with the American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolutio
We analyze how reputational concerns of arbitrators affect the quality of their decision process, in...
The issues of consistency and bias in arbitral decision-making cannot be underestimated. They have g...
This chapter has provided an overview of consumer arbitrations administered by the American Arbitrat...
Adhesive consumer arbitration agreements pose questions that go beyond the problems of adhesion cont...
Arbitrators are lead actors in global dispute resolution. They are to global dispute resolution what...
Courts have become increasingly likely in recent years to find class arbitration waivers in consumer...
Most fields of law provide guidance on how courts decide cases. In contrast, arbitration law tells j...
Businesses cite arbitration as a way to avoid aberrant jury verdicts, implicitly if not explicitly a...
This article helps build the empirical foundation necessary for an informed debate regarding arbitra...
Arbitration clauses now appear in many of the form contracts through which consumers obtain goods, s...
Published in cooperation with the American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolutio
This seminar examines the effects that the private selection of arbitrators has over arbitrators' in...
Much of what makes civil litigation in the United States materially different from civil litigation ...
We conducted a study of contractual practices by well-known firms marketing consumer products, compa...
Published in cooperation with the American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolutio
We analyze how reputational concerns of arbitrators affect the quality of their decision process, in...
The issues of consistency and bias in arbitral decision-making cannot be underestimated. They have g...
This chapter has provided an overview of consumer arbitrations administered by the American Arbitrat...
Adhesive consumer arbitration agreements pose questions that go beyond the problems of adhesion cont...
Arbitrators are lead actors in global dispute resolution. They are to global dispute resolution what...
Courts have become increasingly likely in recent years to find class arbitration waivers in consumer...
Most fields of law provide guidance on how courts decide cases. In contrast, arbitration law tells j...