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Righting a Financial Wrong: Debt Settlement Services, Private Student Lenders, and Auto Lenders Use Forced Arbitration to Escape Accountability When They Harm Consumers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB, or "the Bureau") in December 2013 released preliminary results of a study called for in the 2010 Dodd -- Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act on financial services businesses' use of ...
Christine Hines
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Compulsory Arbitration - What Is It? [PDF]

open access: yes, 1961
The identification of arbitration as it is constituted in legal lore is not very difficult. There is a near consensus of judicial utterances and statutory provisions posing it as a process for hearing and deciding controversies of economic consequence ...
Sturges, Wesley A.
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Bargaining in the shadow of arbitration [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2013
Arbitration, as an alternative to litigation for contract disputes, reduces costs and time. While it has frequently been thought of as a substitute to pretrial bargaining and litigation, in fact, parties may be able to reach a settlement privately while engaged in the arbitration process.
Bryan C. McCannon   +3 more
openaire   +5 more sources

Life unsettled: debating abortion in the US Supreme Court and the Irish Citizens’ Assembly La vie en question : débats autour de l'avortement à la Cour suprême des États‐Unis et dans l'Assemblée citoyenne irlandaise

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article examines polyvalent uses of the word ‘life’ in the debate about abortion in the United States compared with Ireland. It takes two axiomatically liberal events as its ethnographic site of comparison: the US Supreme Court case Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, which overturned Roe v.
Natalie Morningstar
wiley   +1 more source

Arbitration Of Investors’ Claims Against Issuers: An Idea Whose Time Has Come? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Ever since the U.S. Supreme Court held that arbitration provisions contained in brokerage customers’ agreements were enforceable with respect to federal securities claims, proposals have been floated to include in an issuer’s governance documents a ...
Black, Barbara
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‘Expression is power’: Gender, residual culture and political aspiration at the Cumnock School of Oratory, 1870–1900

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article investigates the ways in which late‐nineteenth‐century students at Northwestern University's Cumnock School of Oratory mobilised elocution training and parlour performance to foster mixed‐gender public discourse. I use student publications to reconstruct parlour meetings in which women and men adapted traditions of conversational ...
Fiona Maxwell
wiley   +1 more source

Securities Arbitration After McMahon [PDF]

open access: yes, 1988
In Shearson/American Express, Inc. v. McMahon, the Supreme Court decided that federal securities claims under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (1934 Act or Exchange Act) are arbitrable.
Katsoris, Constantine N.
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Trends in Arbitrability [PDF]

open access: yesIALS Student Law Review, 2014
In this article Beata Kozubovska looks at the relationship between arbitrability and public policy in the international arbitration system.In rеcеnt yеаrs а trеnd tоwаrd еxpаnsiоn оf аrbitrаbility hаs bееn nоticеd. Each state may decide, in accordance with its own economic and social policy, which matters may be settled by arbitration and which may not.
openaire   +3 more sources

Arbitration – The new Arbitration Act 1996 [PDF]

open access: yesAmicus Curiae, 2012
Paul Ellington of Cameron McKenna describes the aims, provisions and likely impact of new Arbitration legislation in 1996. Article published in Amicus Curiae - Journal of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and its Society for Advanced Legal Studies.
openaire   +2 more sources

Cart before the Horse? BSH Hausgeräte v Electrolux and Exclusive Jurisdiction over Patent Validity

open access: yesThe Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
In a much‐anticipated judgment, the Grand Chamber of the CJEU in BSH Hausgeräte GmbH v Electrolux AP reshaped the landscape of cross‐border patent litigation in the EU. The case concerned the interpretation of Article 24(4) of Regulation 1215/2012 (Brussels Ia), under which the courts of the European Member State of deposit or registration have ...
Maxence Rivoire
wiley   +1 more source

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