Christopher R. Drahozal, Associate Dean for Research & Faculty Development and John M. Rounds Professor of Law at the University of Kansas School of Law, has published “Confidentiality in Consumer and Employment Arbitration,” 7 Yearbook on Arbitration & Mediation, 2015.

Thomas Stipanowich, Academic Director at the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution, William H. Webster Chair in Dispute Resolution, and Professor of Law at Pepperdine University School of Law, has published “The International Evolution of Mediation: A Call for Dialogue and Deliberation,” 46 Victoria University of Wellington Law Review 1191 (2015); Pepperdine University Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2016/1.

Yesterday, the Supreme Court of the United States declined to review a challenge to a 2015 Texas Supreme Court ruling which held that Section 74.451 of the Texas Civil Practices and Remedies Code was preempted by the Federal Arbitration Act (“FAA”).

Professor Lee-Ford Tritt, Director of the Center for Estate Planning, Director of the Estates & Trusts Practice Certificate Program, and Associate Director of the Center on Children and Families at the University of Florida Levin College of Law, has written “Legislative Approaches to Trust Arbitration in the United States,” Arbitration of Internal Trust Disputes: Issues in National and International Law, Oxford University Press, S.I. Strong, ed., Forthcoming 2016.