Creeping Mandatory Arbitration: Is it Just?
@article{Sternlight2007CreepingMA, title={Creeping Mandatory Arbitration: Is it Just?}, author={Jean R. Sternlight}, journal={Stanford Law Review}, year={2007}, volume={57}, pages={1631-1675} }
This Article examines the phenomenon of mandatory binding arbitration, imposed on consumers and employees, and considers whether this type of dispute resolution serves or instead undermines justice. It is fairly easy to attack binding arbitration as unfair, for example pointing to the fact that it undermines rights to jury trial and to proceed in class actions. However, this Article seeks to examine the phenomenon of mandatory binding arbitration from a broader perspective, recognizing that it…
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