I participated earlier this week in a fabulous conference at Washington & Lee discussing the current system of investment arbitration and ways that this system could be improved. In an earlier post, I described how this conference was billed as a mix of pracitioners and academics and the panels were just that. On my panel, … Continue reading Designing New Processes for Investment Disputes?
The following is a post from Natalie Fleury, the dispute program manager here at Marquette about an incident last weekend: I was the victim of a walk by insult last weekend, and I’ve been trying to process my thoughts and feelings about it. After church on Sunday (I’ll discuss the church part in a minute), … Continue reading Walk By Insults & Political Discourse
I am linking here to an article last week discussing how mediation is more and more prevalent in dealing with elder law issues. Lovely to see this discussed in the Wall Street Journal and explained quite well. Hat tip to my assistant Carrie for sending me the article!
Earlier this week, the New York Times had an article about how citizens of the Georgia (the country) were in a panic over a fake news broadcast that stated Russia was invading Georgia. Although the television show was intended as political satire, it was apparently so real (and close to home) that citizens believed the … Continue reading International Media and Conflict Resolution
Last weekend on the Harvard Law School Forum for Corporate Governance, partner Rachelle Silverberg from Wachtell Lipton posted the following blog: New rules took effect February in Delaware governing the arbitration of business disputes in the Delaware Court of Chancery. The rules implement amendments to Delaware law, adopted last year, granting the Chancery Court jurisdiction to … Continue reading Judges as Arbitrators? See Delaware…
I am linking here to a blog post from a practitioner fed up with standard clauses and standard problems. As he writes: Today’s issue of the New York Law Journal contains my article “The AAA Standard Arbitration Clause: Room for Improvement.” Click here to go to a pdf copy. (It’s also available here if you … Continue reading AAA Standard Arbitration Clause redraft
In a wonderful example of academia working with practitioners, I am delighted to announce this conference: On March 29, 2010, Washington and Lee School of Law will host a Joint Symposium with the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) to explore the prevention and efficient management of investment treaty disputes. The event will … Continue reading Washington & Lee and the United Nations Host a Joint Symposium on International Investment and ADR
Last week, I saw a great piece in a newsletter from business coach Deborah Grayson Riegel about how focusing closely can really help you make progress. U.S. Olympic bobsled pilot Steven Holcomb had been piloting his four-man sled virtually blind due to an eye disease when he decided to have surgery to restore his vision. … Continue reading Gold Medal Lawyering–Mindfulness at Work
Last weekend I was reading an article with a the great title, “The Glass Ceiling is Kind of a Bummer”: Women’s Reflections on a Gender Development Course talking about how undergraduate women often, even as they are in women’s studies courses, deny the impact that sexism has had or will potentially have on their career. … Continue reading What Queen Esther Knew
In my ongoing effort to publicize efforts from the Works-in-Progress conference, I am linking here to Aaron Bruhl’s blog post from last week about Rent-A-Center v. Jackson, the upcoming case on whether courts or arbitrators decide unconscionability. Aaron tells me that this paper grew out of his presentation at the Works-in-Progress conference several years ago at … Continue reading Who gets to Decide Unconscionability?
