If you have the chance to attend this year’s WIP conference at Harvard, I suggest that you do for a number of reasons. Of course, the primary reason is that the presentations look strong (list is below) and the presenters would love to hear your thoughts on their works. Also, believe it or not, this is a great way to network and get to know others in the field and find those people who can give you comments on your upcoming articles. And finally, this conference helps me recognize the health of the ADR field generally, and more specifically, in academia. We have very good academics in our field and they’re at their best at this conference.
To those of you who will be presenting, good luck and my apologies for not being able to make it this year. But do say hello to co-bloggers Andrea Schneider and Michael Moffitt (at least if he makes it). Don’t forget to thank Bob Mnookin and the folks at Harvard for hosting this year’s event. For more information, go here.
Here’s the presentation schedule with my abbreviation of the presentation’s title or my understanding of the presentation’s subject matter based on the submitted abstract:
Friday Nov. 13th
9:00 Jonathan Cohen – A Child’s Death and a Successful DR Process – a case study
9:45 Dwight Golann – Abandoned Medical Malpractice Claims
Break
11:00 Scott Hughes – Foreclosure Mediation
11:45Ann Marie Liu – China’s Environmental Mediation
Lunch
1:30 Jamie Moffitt – Interpreting Section 7 of the Clayton Act Through Negotiation
2:15 Gregory Jones and Doug Yarn – Toward a Natural History of Conflict Resolution
Break
3:30 Stacie I. Strong – Class Arbitration Outside the US
4:15 Sean Nolon – How Law Schools Teach ADR Courses
Saturday Nov. 14th
9:00 Michael Green – Employment Discrimination after the Sup.Ct.’s 2009 Term
9:45 Kristen Blankley – Jurisdiction in Interlocutory Awards in Class Action Arbitration
Break
10:45 Mark Weidemaier – Arbitral Precedent: A Theoretical and Empirical Inquiry
11:30 Paul Krivis – Arbitration, Bankruptcy, and Public Policy
12:15 Karen Halverson Cross – Unconscionability – Courts and Arbitrators
