Some recent scholarship contends that arbitration is failing in its attempts to compete with litigation. When arbitration does succeed in attracting customers, such as businesses including arbitration clauses in their consumer contracts, commentators assert that it does so illegitimately, such...

This article is written with the following goals: to provide useful suggestions for those who teach arbitration, to persuade some ADR teachers who only touch on arbitration to give serious thought to additional coverage, to persuade some teachers to include a bit of arbitration in their...

The litigation process in bankruptcy courts differs from the litigation process under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. And the bankruptcy litigation process differs from the Federal Rules in many of the same ways that the arbitration process tends to differ from the Federal Rules. This...

This overview of bankruptcy and other debtor-creditor law in the United States is designed for lawyers trained outside of the U.S. It summarizes federal and state law governing collection from debtors in bankruptcy and debtors outside of bankruptcy

Arbitration law in the United States is far more controversial when applied to individuals than to businesses. While enforcement of arbitration agreements between businesses sometimes raises legal issues that divide courts, those issues tend to interest only scholars, lawyers, and other...

“Private ordering” is an important concept and commonly-used phrase in legal scholarship. At least three “ordering” activities often performed by governments can be privatized: lawmaking, adjudication, and enforcement of adjudicators' decisions. Distinguishing among these activities and...

"The Politics of Arbitration Law and Centrist Proposals for Reform", 53 Harvard J. on Legislation 711 (2016), explained how issues surrounding consumer, and other adhesive, arbitration agreements became divisive along predictable political lines (progressive vs. conservative) and proposed an...

At the level of constitutional law, Williams-Yulee is a First Amendment case about judicial campaign fundraising. The First Amendment issues raised by judicial campaigns and money in politics are vital, and they are not the only issues implicated by Williams-Yulee. Williams-Yulee also implicates...

In The Politics of Arbitration Law and Centrist Proposals for Reform, I explained how issues surrounding consumer and other adhesive arbitration agreements became divisive along predictable political lines (progressives vs. conservatives) and proposed an intermediate (or centrist) position to...