St. John's University Law Faculty Blog

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau released a congressionally-mandated study of arbitration today and devoted two pages to discussing “Whimsy Little Contracts” with Unexpected Consequences: An Empirical Analysis of Consumer Understanding of Arbitration Agreements, by Professors Jeff Sovern, Elayne E. Greenberg, Paul F. Kirgis, together with Yuxiang Liu. The St. John’s Arbitration Study was also mentioned in an American Bar Association publication, 21 Dispute Resolution Magazine, No. 2 at 2 (2015). In scholarly publications, the article is being cited at a rate of more than once for every month it has been available, as indicated by the following list of citations:

• Ann M. Lipton, Manufactured Consent: The Problem of Arbitration Clauses in Corporate Charters and Bylaws, Georgetown Law Journal n. 64 (Forthcoming) .
• Eyal Zamir and Yuval Farkash, Standard Form Contracts: Empirical Studies, Normative Implications, and the Fragmentation of Legal Scholarship, JERUSALEM REVIEW OF LEGAL STUDIES n. 142 (Forthcoming).
• Christopher P. Guzelian, Required Resolution: Enforcing Contracts Without Courts n. 26, Chapman NEXUS Law Journal (Forthcoming, 2015
• Jill I. Gross, Justice Scalia’s Hat Trick and the Supreme Court’s Flawed Understanding of Twenty-First Century Arbitration nn. 54, 141

Jeff Sovern

Elayne Greenberg

Paul Kirgis