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CCA Congratulates and Welcomes the New Fellows Class of 2021!
CCA welcomes 12 new Fellows for the Class of 2021. Read More
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CCA Blogs
American Bar Association Endorses Commercial Arbitration
As a commercial arbitrator, I am sometimes asked by folks—including many lawyers– whether there really are any advantages to resolving disputes through arbitration. I hear, “is it really any better than litigating in court?”… Read More
Articles by Fellows
Arbitration Cases (I Wish I Had Mediated), Mediation Cases (I Wish I Had Arbitrated) and Applying Arbitral Skills in Mediation
(This article first appeared in the April 2021 issue of the Pennsylvania Bar Association ADR Newsletter).Justice may be blind, but it is not always just. An order in a child custody battle may not… Read More
CCA Blogs
Root, Hog or Die: Arbitration Adaption in a Pandemic
In our last Blog entry, the Author wrote of the necessity of arbitrators, lawyers, arbitral institutions — indeed, the entirety of the arbitration profession — to adapt to the new day that has… Read More
Articles by Fellows
Wait, What Happened? Recent Developments Affecting Commercial Arbitration You May Have Missed
We all try to stay on top of developments in the commercial arbitration field. Most can confidently recite the holdings from recent key Supreme Court decisions and a sprinkling of other notable or notorious rulings. Read More
Articles by Fellows
Commercial Arbitration Is Alive and Well
Commercial arbitration is flourishing in New York because parties voluntarily agree that arbitration is the preferred method for addressing and resolving disputes that may arise from their contractual relationships. For a wide range of reasons, the freedom of contracting parties to make that choice is a good thing. Read More
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CollArb – CCA’s New Post-Nominal Letter Set
At the request of several of our Fellows who practice internationally, the Executive Committee set out several years ago to try to find a set of post-nominal letters for Fellows to use to indicate their… Read More
Articles by Fellows
Arbitrating Disputes Involving Blockchains, Smart Contracts, and Smart Legal Contracts
Blockchain-based distributed (shared) ledgers (“Blockchain Ledgers”) provide an immutable, secure, and tamper-evident alternative to conventional transactional modalities,1 one which also yields enhanced accountability, traceability, and transparency. (Published in the AAA Dispute Resolution Journal, October 2020, Vol. 74, No. 4.) Read More
Articles by Fellows
Private Arbitration for Business Disputes in the Time of COVID
What are the benefits of private arbitration, and have they only been enhanced in the time of COVID? The benefits have only grown. Here is what I have observed that is new. Read More
Articles by Fellows
Technology Arbitration Revisited
Technology arbitration has undergone rapid growth and evolutionary development in the past decade. In 2010, the words “technology” and “arbitration” were rarely found together in the same sentence. Today, in 2020, technology arbitration is… Read More
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