When Erie Goes International
Donald Earl Childress III argues that courts should question this mechanistic application of the Erie doctrine to transnational cases.
Features
NCAA Sanctions:
Assigning Blame Where it Belongs
Weston asserts that NCAA sanction powers can be too narrow in that they extend only to member institutions and can be too broad in that they negatively impact current student-athletes.
Limiting Article III to Standing “Accidental” Plaintiffs:
Lessons from Environmental and Animal Law Cases
Pushaw argues that the court should revise its standing doctrine to better reflect the original meaning of Article III and to promote greater clarity.
The Emerging Oversimplifications of the Government Speech Doctrine:
From Substantive Content to a "Jurisprudence of Labels"
In his article, McDonald discusses the development of the government speech doctrine.
FCC Regulation Versus Antitrust:
How Net Neutrality is Defining the Boundaries
Boliek’s article places the current crisis squarely in the context of the long- standing jurisdictional struggle between regulation and antitrust law.
Religious Arbitration and the New Multiculturalism:
Negotiating Conflicting Legal Orders
This article reconsiders how courts might use arbitration law to respond to contemporary debates over the role of religious law and religious tribunals under U.S. law.
The Third Arbitration Trilogy
Stolt-Nielsen, Rent-a-Center, Conception, and the Future of American Arbitration
The debate surrounding enforcement of predispute arbitration agreements in standardized consumer and employment contracts has reached fever pitch with the publication of three Supreme Court cases.
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