If you’re on the listserv, you’ve seen some discussion of this great conference at Fordham last week. FOI Jackie Nolan-Haley was kind enough to forward this short summary of the conference.
Marathon weekend in New York City began with a marathon discussion of access to justice at Fordham Law School’s Symposium ADR and Access to Justice that was held on November 1. An engaging group of experts shared their thoughts and wisdom on such important questions as: Has ADR caused justice to increase, decrease or neither? What do we mean by justice? What do we mean by access? The day-long conversation was infused with thought-provoking topics ranging from data analytics to pop culture. The collective thinking of the panelists will be published by the Fordham Law Review in spring 2020. For an advance peek into what is coming, here is a list of the excellent panelists and their topics.
| Kristin | Blankley | Online Dispute Resolution, Access to Justice, and Family Cases – Opportunities and Pitfalls |
| Wayne | Brazil | What Does Justice Mean? |
| Ben | Davis | A Has-Been’s Thoughts About American Diversity in International Arbitration |
| Ellen | Deason | Revisiting the Role of Law in Justice through Settlement |
| Howard | Erichson | Access to Justice in Mass Disputes: Mediation as Opportunity and Threat |
| Gonstead | Mariana | What Can Our Interconnected World Learn from Venezuela about Dispute and Shared System Design? |
| Green | Bruce | Restorative Justice and Prosecutorial Discretion |
| Green | Michael | Arbitrarily Selecting Diverse Arbitrators |
| Gross | Jill | Arbitration Archetypes for Achieving Justice |
| Macfarlane | Julie | How Self-Represented Litigants Change Everything |
| Nussbaum | Lydia | Correcting Injustice? A Foreclosure Mediation Case Study |
| Reynolds | Jen | How Popular Culture Can Improve Access to Justice |
| Schmitz | Amy | Measuring “Access to Justice” in the Rush to Digitize |
| Singh | Sukhsimranjit | Access to Justice and Diversity |
| Waldman | Ellen | Access to Justice: When Ethical Mandates Get in the Way |
| Welsh | Nancy | Bringing Transparency, Accountability–and Competition Perhaps? –to Court-Connected Dispute Resolution |
I am so excited to see the potential for making change happen in the ADR world. If any of those publishing articles are interested in seeing their ideas and/or work as a webinar or podcast through the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution, I would welcome a conversation about how to connect you to the committees within the Section working on developing ideas and programming.
I look forward to hearing from most of you!