On November 6^th our friends at Fordham will be hosting their annual dispute resolution forum, this one on the intersection between culture and disputing processes.  Professor Oscar Chase from the NYU Law School will be the keynote speaker and will be followed by an excellent panel of discussants.  For more information, including registration information, go here.  This sounds very interesting, and if you’re in the NYC area, I suggest going.  An edited conference blurb is below.

Keynote speaker, Professor Oscar Chase of New York University Law School and author of Law, Culture, and Ritual: Disputing Systems in Cross-Cultural Context, will offer a cultural analysis of disputing processes based on both U.S. and non-western disputing procedures.  Professor Chase defines culture as the traditional ideas, norms, and values widely shared by a society and through which that society attaches meaning to existence.  He argues that these norms shape a society’s disputing processes, and in turn, the disputing processes produce and reproduce procedures that resonate effectively within the dominant culture.