Taylor Carroll | July 10, 2017 | Consumer Contracts
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has issued a final rule “governing the use of pre-dispute arbitration agreements by providers of consumer financial products and services.” From the CFPB Pursuant to section 1028(b) of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and...
Catherine A. Rogers, Christopher R. Drahozal, George A. Bermann and Jack J. Cole | May 11, 2017 | International Commercial and Investor-State Arbitration
This post is a presentation of information found in Tentative Draft No. 5 of the International Commercial Arbitration project. This will be presented at the 2017 Annual Meeting. § 5-1. Legal Framework Governing the Judicial Role in Investor–State Arbitration (a) The...
Taylor Carroll | May 9, 2017 | American Indian Law
The issue as to whether Comanche Nation waived its sovereign immunity with respect to a binding arbitration clause contained in gaming machine vendor agreements signed by the Tribal Chairman on behalf of the tribe was brought before the Court of Indian Appeals for the...
Catherine A. Rogers, Christopher R. Drahozal, George A. Bermann and Jack J. Cole | April 12, 2017 | International Commercial and Investor-State Arbitration
At this year’s Annual Meeting, Chapter 5 (Investor-State Arbitration) of the International Commercial Arbitration project will be presented in Tentative Draft No. 5. Chapter 5 begins with an Introductory Note, depicting the landscape of investor–State arbitration as...
Lord Peter Goldsmith QC, PC, Aimee-Jane Lee and Boxun Yin | March 16, 2017 | International Commercial and Investor-State Arbitration
The English Court of Appeal in Michael Wilson & Partners v. Sinclair [2017] EWCA Civ 3 has clarified that a subsequent litigation is not an abuse of process for being a collateral attack against a previous arbitral award, where the respondent to the litigation was...
