Topic
Forced Arbitration
78 published works
Consumer Finance Monitor
Will the CFPB kill arbitration?
I am often asked whether I think that the CFPB will issue a reg banning the use of arbitration in consumer financial services contracts. Elizabeth Warren made clear her negative…
ContractsProf Blog
Insurer May Compel Non-Party to Arbitrate
As we gear up for oral argument before the U.S. Supreme Court in Rent-a-Center West, Inc. v. Jackson, we are turning this into arbitration month on the blog. Later this…
The Retirement Plan Blog
Whatever happened to asset allocation?
By Jerry Kalish
Maybe the visual metaphor is an extreme answer to the question raised above. But asset allocation for participants investing their accounts in employer stock seems to be an investment strategy on…
Salmonella Blog
Is Federal probe stumped on bad tomatoes?
Everybody knows that coming "close" usually does not count. For the last couple news cycles, top officials from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration(FDA) including Commissioner Andrew von Eschenbach have…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Top-5 Employment SSRN Downloads
Richard A. Bales & Jason N.W. Plowman, Compulsory Arbitration as Part of a Broader Employment Dispute Resolution Process: The Anheuser-Busch Example (198).Nathan B. Oman (photo above), Specific Performance and the…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Bales and Plowman on Compulsory Arbitration as Part of a Broader Employment Dispute Resolution Process
Rick Bales (Chase-N. Ky.) (left) and Jason Plowman (Wash. U. St. Louis student) (right) have posted on SSRN their forthcoming article in the Hofstra Labor & Employment Law Journal: Compulsory…
The Contingency
Does Banning Compulsory Arbitration Promote Lawsuits?
The WSJ opines today that bills in Congress would support "more class-action lawsuits" by banning arbitration clauses in consumer contracts. Sorry, but Blawgletter just doesn't see the argument. Lawyers who…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Recently-Published Scholarship
ArticlesRichard L. Barnes (top row, left), Buckeye, Bull's-Eye, or Moving Target: The FAA, Complusory Arbitration, and Common-Law Contract, 31 Vermont L. Rev. 141 (2006).W. Melvin Haas III (top row, second),…