A group of lawmakers led by Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren have recently expressed concerns over a proposed Trans-Pacific trade partnership between the United States and 11 other nations.

In the past few posts, we have been discussing how special masters can be part of making resolutions of disputes fair, just and efficient. Part IV focused on using special masters as hands-on managers to incentivize parties to avoid discovery disputes in the first place and to resolve discovery disputes quickly, fairly and with a minimum of expense when they do occur.

Texas’ Second District Court of Appeals in Fort Worth has ordered parties to a condominium sales contract to arbitrate their dispute despite that one purchaser failed to sign the agreement.

Andrea Kupfer Schneider, Professor of Law at Marquette University Law School, Jill Gross, James D. Hopkins Professor of Law and Director of Legal Skills at Pace Law School, and John Lande, Isidor Loeb Professor of Law at the University of Missouri School of Law have authored “Teaching Students to Be Problem-Solvers and Dispute-Resolvers,” Building on Best Practices: Transforming Legal Education in a Changing World (Deborah Maranville, Lisa Radtke Bliss, Carolyn Wilkes Kaas & Antoinette Sedillo Lopez eds., 2015); Marquette Law School Legal Studies Paper No. 15-04.