Mr. Wise's Industrial Arbitration Act

Medical Malpractice Arbitration Act: Michigan's experience with arbitration.

In the 1970's, Michigan and other states were confronted with a medical malpractice crisis of astronomical proportions. The escalating number of medical malpractice lawsuits and concomitant increase in malpractice premiums for health care providers fostered a divisive climate among doctors, lawyers and patients. In response to this crisis, the Michigan legislature enacted the Medical Malpractic...

Fixing the Mandatory Arbitration Problem: We Need the Arbitration Fairness Act of 2009

The Arbitration Fairness Act: It Need Not and Should Not Be an All or Nothing Proposition

Specification and Verification of the PowerScaleTM Bus Arbitration Protocol: An Industrial Experiment with LOTOS

This paper presents the results of an industrial case-study concerning the use of formal methods for the validation of hardware design. The case-study focuses on PowerScale TM , a multi-processor architecture based on PowerPC TM microprocessors and used in Bull's Escala TM series of servers and workstations x. The speciication language Lotos (Iso International Standard 8807) was used to describ...

Mediation, arbitration and negotiation

We compare three common dispute resolution processes — negotiation, mediation, and arbitration — in the framework of Crawford and Sobel (1982). Under negotiation, the two parties engage in (possibly arbitrarily long) face-to-face cheap talk. Under mediation, the parties communicate with a neutral third party who makes a non-binding recommendation. Under arbitration, the two parties commit to co...