2024 CPR Award Winners Announced

If you’re on the ADR prof listserv, you’ve seen some congratulatory remarks about the CPR Awards, which were announced yesterday. If you’re not familiar with the awards, the press release announcing them describes the awards as follows:

The CPR Institute’s Annual Awards program honors outstanding scholarship and practical achievement in the field of alternative dispute resolution. Award criteria focuses on scholarship which addresses the resolution, prevention or creative management of major disputes involving public or business institutions between corporations, between government and corporations, or among multiple parties. The review committee comprises judges and lawyers from leading corporations, top law firms, and academic institutions across the U.S.

Here are the academic winners:

Outstanding Book Award

Amy Schmitz (Ohio State) for The Arbitration Conversation: Insights and Wisdom from Experts in the Field (ABA 2024)

Outstanding Professional Article Award (tie)

Michael Z. Green (Texas A&M) for Expanding the Ban on Forced Arbitration to Race Claims,” 72 Kan. L. Rev. 455 (2024)
Roselle Wissler and Art Hinshaw (both Arizona State) for Comparing Joint Session and Caucus Outcomes: Factoring in Substantive Discussions and Case Characteristics, 25 Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution 491 (2024)

Outstanding Short Article Award

Melvin Loh for The Power of Stories: Advocating for Therapeutic Justice Through Mediation,” 2023 Asian Journal on Mediation 1 (December 2023)

Joseph T. McLaughlin Original Student Article or Paper

Samuel Cole (Univ. of Chicago) for Bargaining in the Shadow of the EFAA, which is to be published in the University of Missouri School of Law Journal on Dispute Resolution in 2025

Congratulations to all the winners, and congratulations to Sarah Cole, our wonderful Indisputably colleague, past CPR award winner, and Sam’s mom. Presumably they are the first parent-child CPR award winners.

For more details and quotes for these and other CPR awards, check out the press release in full.

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