This Report to the Securities Industry Conference on Arbitration (SICA) documents the results of the authors' empirical …) fairness of the SRO arbitration process; (2) competence of arbitrators to resolve investors' disputes with their broker …-dealers; (3) fairness of SRO arbitration as compared to their perceptions of fairness in securities litigation in similar disputes …

Confidentiality in International Commercial Arbitration is important to parties dealing in commercially sensitive … internationally, with a particular focus on the comprehensive codification of the obligation in New Zealand under the Arbitration Act … 1996. The paper focuses in particular on confidentiality expectations in arbitration related court proceedings, which is …

investment treaty arbitration does not support fair and independent adjudication of the boundaries of sovereign authority and of …

Arbitration, though not totally devoid of some inherent legal issues, has come to be recognized as more effective than … substantial justice without being hampered by the legal technicalities which characterizes the traditional litigation system. In … arbitration, in particular, the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 to find out the extent to which the requirements of …

Most disputes between customers and their brokerage firms are resolved through arbitration as a result of the Supreme …: the Court's general pro-arbitration trend and its efforts to remove private securities fraud claims from federal court … of the current securities arbitration process from the perspective of an investor advocate. In my view, investors may …

laboratory free space or by self-regulation. It also shows that idiosyncratic national rules would result in legal fragmentation … and deprive the world of the benefit that digital services can provide.The paper suggests therefore that global standards … would be the most adequate solution for the regulation of global services. It proposes to re-conceptualize the FSB and to …

The aim of this study is to elucidate whether arbitration offers advantages compared to the patent litigation system … revocation proceedings. This account is followed by a comparison of arbitration and litigation in Germany in the light of the …

, particularly if the country’s judiciary is not able to effectively render justice since it lacks the necessary resources, if the … World Trade Organization (WTO) as well as arbitral tribunals which are established under the investor-state dispute …

As arbitration’s prominence grows in a wide variety of contracts, it is imperative to ensure fairness with respect to … its use and procedures. However, the proposed Arbitration Fairness Act (AFA) may be too rash in its blanket ban on pre …-dispute arbitration agreements in employment, consumer, franchise, and civil right claims contexts. Instead, a more measured approach is …