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Exploring California’s Reputation: From Wild West to Arbitration Desination
California is well positioned as an arbitration venue, particularly for U.S. to Asia disputes, due to its geography, leading universities, experienced arbitrators, and capable judiciary.
1. California’s reputation and how to improve it. You have mentioned that California was, and in some quarters still is, viewed by Europeans as the wild, wild, West with out-of-control juries and courts, and insufficient appreciation for international arbitration. Later on, you add that nothing is forever, and geopolitical and global economic trends have a way of upending one’s assumptions. In the past year, have you seen the erosion of some of those negative assumptions? How could California improve its reputation?
Answer: This is a complicated question, involving some real and some mostly imaginary issues. The most important “real” issue, not unique to California, is…Read the full article here: