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The Penn State Yearbook on Arbitration and Mediation presents its 2016 symposium, The Politics of Arbitration. The daylong event will feature leading alternative dispute resolution scholars and practitioners addressing the partisan ideologies that may underlie arbitration in practice.

The Yearbook believes that this symposium topic will provide a stimulating discussion and coincide with the forthcoming United States elections.

Examples of topics to be discussed by our confirmed panelists include:

• the effects of extreme religious liberty on mandatory arbitration agreements that discriminate in the selection and appointment of arbitrators;
• class action waivers under the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau;
• the miscommunication between the international business/arbitration community and the human rights community when it comes to investment arbitration;
• subverting arbitration; and
• the effects of the arbitration provisions in the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

Continuing Legal Education (CLE) credits will be offered free of charge to attorneys who register and attend the event.