A recent article in the New York Times described benefits of instructional methods that encourage high school students to take more control over their learning. Young adults say they feel woefully unprepared for life in the work force, and employers say they’re right. In a survey by Gallup and the Walton Family Foundation of more … Continue reading Promoting Law Students’ Agency
Please join me (Jill Gross – Haub Law/Pace) and Rick Bales (Ohio Northern) for the online book launch of THE FEDERAL ARBITRATION ACT: SUCCESSES, FAILURES, AND A ROADMAP FOR REFORM, on Wednesday, January 15, 2025 at 1:00 p.m. In honor of the 100th anniversary of the Federal Arbitration Act, this volume brings together a … Continue reading Register for Virtual Book Launch: The Federal Arbitration Act: Successes, Failures, and a Roadmap for Reform
Happy New Year everyone! Here is the latest installment of scholarship projects by ADR Profs and practitioners all around the country. Thanks again to Peter Reilly (Texas A&M) for compiling and circulating this impressive list. Hal Abramson (Touro Law) Time-Pressured Negotiations 30.2 Harv. Negot. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2025) This article considers how to negotiate when you … Continue reading ADR Scholarship Projects – January 2025
On behalf of the from The Center for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution (CNDR) at UC Law San Francisco (formerly UC Hastings), I am pleased to announce our annual ADR Speaker Series for the Spring. Our fabulous presenters include: Prof. Shahla Ali, Hong Kong University, on “The Dynamics of Infrastructure Dispute Mitigation” (Jan. 22) Prof. Carrie … Continue reading UC Law SF’s Spring 2025 ADR Speaker Series is here!
This year, I wrote a lot of blog posts and short SSRN articles about the Real Practice Systems (RPS) Project, particularly about attorneys’ real practice systems and legal education. The Project is designed to improve understanding about how dispute resolution practitioners think and act and to help practitioners act more consciously and intentionally. I updated … Continue reading Updates to Collections of Real Practice Systems Project Publications
My friend and colleague, Michael Moffitt, mused about my musings about law review reprints. Not one to let a good musing go to waste, I hereby muse on Michael’s musing. Michael savors others’ reprints. I savor Michael’s prose. In my prior musing, I identified some problems with printed reprints of law review articles but I … Continue reading Harmonizing with Michael
My friend and colleague John Lande just posted a musing about law review reprints. John notes that he misses law review reprints only because he now receives no personalized notes from reprints’ authors. John did not need to rehearse the reasons for reprints’ relatively recent demise. He didn’t need to. These reasons are well understood … Continue reading A Concurring Dissent, or a Dissenting Concurrence, on Law Review Reprints
As I was cleaning out my bookshelves to give some books to my school’s library, I encountered stacks of reprints of law review articles. In the olden days, sending reprints was a regular thing. We would order extra reprints of our articles and then send them postally (!) to colleagues, often with a short personal … Continue reading Ode to Reprints
If so, take a look at this Model Mediation Course Syllabus With Teaching Notes – even if you are teaching a dispute resolution course other than mediation. The model syllabus includes a menu of topics, readings, and simulations that can be incorporated in many DR courses. It includes links to short readings for students that … Continue reading Are You Preparing a Dispute Resolution Course Next Semester?
I learned yesterday of the passing of Tom Schaub. In a blog focused primarily on law professors and dispute resolution, it may seem expansive for me to call attention to Tom (who was neither a lawyer, nor particularly interested in the sometimes-narrow constraints of “disputes” as they are commonly conceived.) Tom worked in the field, … Continue reading In Memoriam: Tom Schaub
