[1] My grandfather, born in 1900, witnessed the birth of electricity, saw the first automobile roll off an assembly line [2] and stood awestruck in a cornfield as one of mankind’s first airplanes took flight. [3]  Although we've progressed from bi-planes to jets and rockets (some of which may someday be green) we still fly balloons of the type first launched in 1783 -- both Goodyear Blimps and the backyard variety, covered this week by Legal Blog Watch as Law and… [read post]

The Third Arbitration Trilogy: Stolt-Nielsen, Rent-A-Center, Concepcion and the Future of American Arbitration American Review of International Arbitration, 2012Thomas Stipanowich Pepperdine University School of Law Abstract: For the third time in the modern era, a triad of key Supreme Court decisions represents a milestone in American arbitration. [read post]