This analysis of the Public Citizen report and evidence collected in California and elsewhere reveals different and positive conclusions about the state of consumer arbitration.

The dispute over Iran’s controversial nuclear program has reached crisis point. Despite increasing foreign sanctions in recent months, Tehran is continuing its nuclear work, refusing to cooperate, and has indeed tripled its monthly production of higher-grade enriched uranium.

One of the main goals of the new World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute settlement system, established during the Uruguay Round, was to diminish the power disparities between large developed economies and smaller developing ones by giving the less developed countries a more accessible forum to air their trade grievances.

There are two dangerous flaws in the new dispute settlement system: the promise of a binding decision in each case and the inability to overturn a decision of a WTO panel once it is rendered.

The United States and the European Union are victims of too much substantive success in multilateral trade negotiations, combined with overreaching in the area of dispute resolution.

Some people dispute that science fiction predicts reality. Those people should be referred to the recent changes in the debate over climate change.

The U.S. is more active on trade policy than it has been in years.  President Obama is meeting with Canada and Mexico about new agreements, Congress will hold hearings on changing decades-old trade law, and the federal government will more broadly be bringing several cases before the WTO.

Yet, in constructing...

What exactly was gained at the talks with Iran last Saturday? Catherine Ashton, EU foreign policy honcho, pronounced the talks “constructive and useful.