Saturns for Rickshaws: Lessons for Consumer Arbitration and Access to Justice

Authors

• Peter B. Rutledge, University of Georgia Law SchoolFollow

in Beyond Elite Law: Access to Civil Justice in America (Samuel Estreicher & Joy Radice, eds. 2016).

Abstract

Companies are increasingly requiring consumers to agree to arbitrate disputes they may have over the products or services they purchase. Pre-dispute arbitration agreements are controversial especially for consumer disputes, where, it is feared, consumers will not represent themselves and neither will lawyers come forward because of the small stakes involved in individual claims. Dean Rutledge addresses in this chapter whether consumer arbitration processes can be designed to provide greater access to justice for consumers.

Repository Citation

Peter B. Rutledge, Saturns for Rickshaws: Lessons for Consumer Arbitration and Access to Justice (2016),
Available at: https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/fac_artchop/1555