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F. Peter Phillips on August 8, 2019
TOPICS: Courts, International, Mediation
The Swiss Chambers' Arbitration Institution (SCAI) has revised its Rules of Mediation, effective July 1, 2019. The text of the new Rules is available here. The new Rules revise those that have been in effect since 2007.
Of particular interest are Articles 16 and 17, which provide for the...
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F. Peter Phillips on July 9, 2019
TOPICS: Arbitration
Prof. David Horton of the University of California, Davis, School of Law has posted a provocative article scheduled to be published by the University of Pennsylvania Law Review. Titled "Infinite Arbitration Clauses," it collects and comments upon purported arbitration "agreements" pursuant to which one party seeks to obligate another...
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F. Peter Phillips on March 21, 2019
TOPICS: Courts, Mediation, Negotiation
New Jersey Governor Murphy has signed into law P.L.2019, c.39, which declares unenforceable any "provision in any... settlement agreement which has the purpose or effect of concealing the details relating to a claim of discrimination, retaliation, or harassment."
Moreover, the new law provides that every settlement agreement addressing such claims...
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