The RPS Coach homepage not only describes the AI tool, the values embedded in it, and the topics it covers. It also includes a publications section with practical guides and tools that people may freely use, distribute, and post on their own websites. I recently added several new resources that may be useful in legal … Continue reading New Resources for Law Students and Disputants
Back in April, following Marc Galanter’s passing, John Lande wrote a lovely post honoring Galanter’s life and work. John was the most appropriate of Indisputably’s contributors to write that tribute, given that he was one of Galanter’s grad students back in the day. I mention this because another tribute to Galanter crossed my desk today. … Continue reading Long Live Marc Galanter
With thanks for Peter Reilly (Texas A&M) for compiling this twice a year, listed below are our colleagues’ current scholarship projects: Gilat Juli Bachar (Temple Law) Against Overbroad Nondisclosures, 100 S. Cal. L. Rev. _ (forthcoming 2026/7): This paper addresses the overlooked problem of overbroad settlement non-disclosure agreements (NDAs). Although confidentiality is regarded as a cornerstone … Continue reading ADR Scholarship Projects (August 2026)
As many of you know via the list serv, Carrie Menkel-Meadow’s latest ADR text is out, Advanced Introduction to Alternative Dispute Resolution, and available for purchase. Here’s are the key features of this book as listed on the book’s webpage: Reviews the latest issues in multi-party, multi-issue international disputes Outlines adjudication, arbitration, mediation, negotiation and various … Continue reading Advanced Introduction to Alternative Dispute Resolution by Carrie Menkel-Meadow
Are you putting the finishing touches on your syllabi for the fall? If you’re teaching mediation, interviewing, counseling, and negotiation, an ADR survey course, or a related subject, you might consider including a fun new teaching resource in your course. What Happened? A Mediation Story Featuring RPS Coach is a plausible story that students can … Continue reading Teaching Mediation This Fall? Consider Starting with a Story
Earlier this week, the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit granted, in part, a broker-dealer’s request for review of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s denial of the firm’s petition for rulemaking related to FINRA arbitration. See Thrivent Financial for Lutherans v. Securities and Exchange Commission, __F. 4th __, 2026 WL 2095279 (D.C. Cir. July … Continue reading D.C. Circuit and Securities Arbitration
Some faculty are wary of using artificial intelligence (AI) in scholarship and teaching. Some are reluctant to use it because they worry that it may undermine thinking, writing, and teaching. Others worry about using AI in ways that effectively delegate too much intellectual work to the technology. There is another possibility. You can use AI … Continue reading How You Can Take Advantage of AI in Your Scholarship and Teaching
I want to let you know about a short story, What Happened? A Mediation Story Featuring RPS Coach. I bet you would enjoy spending an hour to read it. What Happened? tells the story of a promising business relationship that gradually unravels into a serious commercial dispute. As the implementation of a software system goes … Continue reading A Short Story about Mediation, Professional Judgment, and AI
A bit of exciting news from Santa Clara Law: our conflict resolution program is becoming the Daley Center for Conflict Resolution, thanks to a $5 million gift from alumna Dorian Daley that will endow the Center. For those of us who have been building the program since its founding in 2017, this is an especially … Continue reading Exciting News from Santa Clara Law Dispute Resolution Program
The Center for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution at the University of California College of Law, San Francisco (formerly UC Hastings) has launched a new Survey on Commercial Mediation in the U.S. The Survey has the support of AAA/ICDR, CPR Institute and DRS, and JAMS. A link to the survey instrument can be found below. Commercial mediation now … Continue reading Please Participate in UC Law SF’s Survey on Commercial Mediation
