On September 7, 2012 the Second Circuit struck a blow for all of those consumers that have been fooled by data pass marketing programs, especially those that contain an arbitration clause hidden within its terms. In the case of Schnabel v. Trilegiant Corp. the court examined the enforceability...

Commercial arbitration is growing, both in the realm of small generic transactions such as credit card debt, to large complex billion dollar sophisticated commercial transactions, as well as every type of commercial transaction in between. With this growth in commercial arbitration there has...

For most of the twentieth century, international courts and tribunals rarely enjoyed blanket jurisdiction over foreign nationals. This has changed with the advent of ‘investment treaty arbitrations.’ Investment treaty arbitration is a treaty-based regime that uses rules and structures of...