Earlier this week I attended a wonderful conference at Pepperdine Law School attended by 150 ADR legal educators and professionals, where we explored the legacy of the field of ADR and predicted its future. Co-sponsored by the Aggie (Texas A&M) DR Program as well as numerous other law school DR programs), the conference featured panels … Continue reading Conference on past, present and future of ADR at Pepperdine Law School
Coming off a wonderful conference at Pepperdine, I wanted to put down in writing some of the stimulating conversation that we had over the course of the two days there. I imagine that there will be other posts to come! One of our sessions was about Access to Justice and how (or if) ADR could … Continue reading Access to Justice & ADR–What Does This Even Mean?
From GFOI Jackie Font-Guzmán: In October 2018, Creighton’s 2040 Initiative and Negotiation and Conflict Resolution (NCR) Program hosted the conversation “Disrupting Law, Reclaiming Justice” with a focus on Rules for a Flat World, Dr. Gillian Hadfield’s timely and important book offering a critique of current law and legal infrastructure. Law and lawyers, according to Hadfield, … Continue reading Special Issue of Creighton Journal of Interdisciplinary Leadership
From my colleague, S.I. Strong: Young OGEMID will start its next virtual (all-email) symposium on June 24. You might want to let your students know in case they want to sign up . The listserv is, as I’ve noted before, free. Those of you who are pre-tenure are eligible to join as well. The topic … Continue reading Virtual Symposium on International Commercial Mediation
From FFOI Elayne Greenberg: The Hugh L. Carey Center for Dispute Resolution at St. John’s School of Law and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) invite you to participate in the eleventh annual Securities Dispute Resolution Triathlon, a competition of competence in the dispute resolution field. The Triathlon is the first and only competition to include negotiation, … Continue reading 11th Annual Securities Dispute Resolution Triathlon
From FOI Lydia Nussbaum (UNLV): Join us for the 13th Annual AALS ADR Section Works-in-Progress Conference in Las Vegas, NV! The conference takes place from October 3-5, 2019, at the UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law & the Saltman Center for Conflict Resolution. Click here for the conference website and registration information. Important Dates … Continue reading Register Now for the WIP
At the upcoming Pepperdine Past-and-Future Conference, much of the discussion will be about engaging the real world of dispute resolution. This post recommends that to help do this, we develop a common language of dispute resolution and increasingly use qualitative research methods. We Should Set a Top Priority to Develop Clearer Common Language of DR … Continue reading Understanding Actual DR Practice and Communicating Clearly About It
Do you suffer from the imposter syndrome too? I have been in our field for decades and I know only a teeny tiny fraction of our body of knowledge. I feel like Lucille Ball in the chocolate factory as we constantly churn out ever more stuff and I can’t keep up. I generally try to … Continue reading Recent Dispute Resolution Scholarship
At the Pepperdine Past-and-Future Conference, I will be on a panel with Doug Frenkel, Michaela Keet, and Donna Stienstra entitled, “Research and Scholarship with a Real-World Focus Studying What Practitioners Actually Do.” We will not only discuss research about private neutrals, but also lawyers, judges, and disputants. Most of the session will be a conversation … Continue reading Pepperdine Program Discussing Scholarship About Actual Practice
I’ve been meaning for some time to highlight ADR articles that are published in mainline law reviews where blog readers might not see them as easily as they otherwise might. So here’s the first go around, and this will probably be more monthly than article by article. Bradford, C. Steven. Online arbitration as a remedy … Continue reading Recent ADR Scholarship in non-ADR Law Reviews
Delighted to be interviewed yesterday by the Washington Post and quoted today (at the end of the story) about his foreign policy. As I note, Trump only appears to have a hammer and assumes that even with repeat players, he will be able to bully his way through foreign policy. I (and many others) opine … Continue reading Trump’s Only Negotiation Tool
What was the best moment of your life, when it comes to ADR? I just read this collection in the Guardian of the best moment of people’s lives and felt inspired to think about happy times. For me, one of the best ADR moments of my life happened when I was mediating a business dispute. … Continue reading The Best Moment of Your (ADR) Life