Texas’ Fifth District Court of Appeals in Dallas has reversed a lower court’s decision to vacate an arbitration award.

University of Kansas School of Law Professor Stephen J. Ware has published Is Adjudication a Public Good? ‘Overcrowded Courts’ and the Private Sector Alternative of Arbitration, 14 Cardozo J. Conflict Resol. 899 (2013).

The Southern District of New York has confirmed an arbitrator’s $5 million award in a beauty pageant dispute. In Miss Universe, LP, LLLP v. Sheena Monnin, No. 12 Civ. 9174 (JPO), the newly selected 2012 Miss Pennsylvania, Sheena Monnin, signed three contracts related to her title.

Janet Martinez, Senior Lecturer in Law and Director of the Gould Negotiation and Mediation Program at Stanford Law School, Sheila Purcell, Director and Clinical Professor of the Center for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution at the University of California Hastings College of the Law, Hagit Shaked-Gvili, and Justice Mohan Mehta, have authored a thoughtful research paper that compares alternative dispute resolution mechanisms in three very different legal systems.