Halting Military Trials in Guantanamo Bay: Can the President Call a Time-Out?

Article published in the Michigan State International Law Review

Cautionary Lessons from American Securities Arbitration: Litigation versus Arbitration

In the United States, it is now quite common for lawyers and others to bemoan what is often referred to as \u27the litigation crisis. \u27 No less an authority than former Chief Justice Warren Burger has long complained that American courts \u27have become overburdened\u27 by too may lawsuits... Similarly, the Report of the prestigious American Bar Association\u27s Commission on Professionalism recommends expanded use of arbitration in lieu of a norrnal trial before a judge and lay jury. There should be no rush to judgment favouring arbitration. In the first place, it is not at all clear that there is a litigation crisis in the United States