Judicial Intervention in Arbitration: Unresolved Jurisdictional Issues Concerning Arbitrator Appointments in Nigeria

Jurisdictional Issues in Global Transmissions

INTRODUCTION In the information age where teleconferences replace in-person meetings, where telecommuting replaces going to the office, and where international networks facilitate global transmissions with the apparent ease of calling one’s next-door neighbor, valuable assets change ownership at the speed of light. Louis Jionet, Secretary-General of the French Commission on Data Processing and ...

Arbitration using the closest offer principle of arbitrator behavior

In this paper we introduce a model of arbitration decision making which generalizes several previous models of both conventional arbitration and final offer arbitration. We derive the equilibrium offers that risk neutral disputants would propose, and show how these offers would vary under different arbitration procedures. In particular, we show that optimal offers made under conventional arbitr...

The Influence of Arbitrator Background and Representation on Arbitration Outcomes

Judicial intervention in pregnancy.

The authors postulate that judicial intervention in pregnancy is one of the means by which control is legally exercised on women's bodies and lives. Despite the recommendations of the Royal Commission on New Reproductive Technologies, which rejected proposals for intervention, and the fact that the movement to recognize fetal "rights" has been stronger in the United States than in Canada, the a...

An introduction to jurisdictional issues in cyberspace

Imagine a state proclaiming that it will claim jurisdiction l over, and apply its laws to, any website that can be accessed from a computer located in its taritory. The response would per/taps be outrage from some. Others would point to the ineffective nature of such a rule, and yet others would perhaps view the model as infeasible. Indeed, when the Advoeate-General's office of Minnesota in the...