FINRA's Dispute Resolution Pandemic Response

Dispute prevention and dispute resolution in networked health information technology

The United States has committed to promote Health Information Technology through Electronic Health Records that will be exchanged among participants in the healthcare enterprise. In anticipation of problems, legal remedies have been established to protect the rights of all participants, especially their rights to protect the privacy of their own information. However, there are certain to be sit...

Alternative dispute resolution and mediation.

Doctors and patients are not natural enemies. On the contrary, there is commonly a special relationship between them, with vulnerability and trust on one side and caring and professional expertise on the other. A medical dispute can create turmoil of that relationship, particularly if it is conducted in the traditional adversarial procedure. Depending on how it develops, the patient may see the...

Dispute Resolution for gTLD Conflicts

Efficient and equitable dispute resolution is key to avoiding systemic disturbance in the use and valorization of top level domain names (TLDs). Such dispute resolution is also important given the increasing number of clashes between TLD providers and managers and between trademark owners and generic (gTLD)-related registrants. ICANN policies/rules form the basis of gTLD-related second level do...

Dispute Resolution Institutions and Strategic Militarization

A central question in political science is how to best manage information asymmetries and commitment problems when disputes arise between states. We argue that existing work miss an important feature: dispute settlement institutions shape the incentives for entering disputes. Because war is the down-side risk from entering a dispute, institutions that reduce the chances of war-fighting may incr...

Book Review: Dispute Resolution and e-Discovery