Press release from the ABA.  As always, thanks to everyone who helps to make this competition possible.  In particular, a thanks to Andrea Schneider, this year’s chair.

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Sarah Gonski, a student at Harvard Law School, is the winner of the 2013 Boskey Dispute Resolution Essay Competition. Ms. Gonski’s essay entitled “Easing Gridlock in the United States Congress Through Mediation: Letting Our Cities and States Teach Us Lessons On Getting Along,” was deemed the winner from among the essays submitted to the competition.

The Boskey Essay Competition is a project of the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution’s Law Schools Committee, which honors the memory of James B. Boskey, humanitarian, Seton Hall University law professor, and mediator. Professor Boskey was known and beloved world-over for his publication of The Alternative Newsletter, a resource guide on ADR published quarterly. The competition is chaired by incoming chair Professor Andrea Kupfer Schneider, Director, Dispute Resolution Program Marquette University Law School.

We would like to thank all of the students who submitted essays to the 2013 Boskey Competition. It was a highly competitive year and all of the participating students should be commended for their work in the dispute resolution field. We would also like to thank all of the law professors and practitioners who volunteered as judges for this year’s competition.

The current and past winning essays are available on the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution web site, http://www.abanet.org/dispute/essaycomp.html.