Our friends at St.Johns in NYC are hosting an interesting conference on the intersection of bankruptcy and dispute resolution entitled ADR Meets Bankruptcy: Cross-Purposes or Cross-Pollination?  There’s a good line-up of speakers, which should make the program worth your time if you can go.  In this economic climate, I expect there’s plenty of intersection of these two subjects. 

For more information go here, and here’s the conference blurb:

On October 2, 2009, the American Bankruptcy Institute Law Review, in conjunction with the Hugh L. Carey Center for Dispute Resolution and the Bankruptcy Policy Institute of St. John’s University School of Law, will host a conference exploring the relationship between alternative dispute resolution and bankruptcy entitled “ADR Meets Bankruptcy: Cross-Purposes or Cross-Pollination?”

This conference will bring together prominent scholars from the fields of ADR and bankruptcy to investigate the ways that mediation and arbitration intersect with bankruptcy. Drawing on the different perspectives that scholars from each field bring, the conference will provide an opportunity for discussion to stimulate new approaches in both ADR and bankruptcy.  The keynote address will be delivered by Andres Martinez of the World Bank Group, who will discuss global initiatives for using ADR to address the insolvency crisis in the developing world.