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?
Okay, I was drawn like a moth to a flame (or more like watching a car accident) to keep on NBC after the closing ceremonies and watch The Marriage Ref last night under the deluded hope that maybe this would be a tv show with dispute resolution in action. The tag line for this lovely … Continue reading The Marriage Ref?
I am happy to post the following call for proposals for next year’s AALS meeting: CALL FOR PROPOSALS AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF LAW SCHOOLS – 2011 Conference, Jan 5-9th A Joint Program of the Sections on Balance in Legal Education and Academic Support Co-Sponsored by the Section on Student Services Theme: “Beyond Humanizing: Can – and … Continue reading AALS Call for Papers–Happy Law Students?
As readers of this blog know, I lost my grandmother last fall. It was sad, but not tragic. After all, she was 99 and lived a long productive happy life. Last week, I (and my siblings) received a very formal letter from a lawyer with an enclosure—under Pennsylvania law, where my grandmother lived, beneficiaries of her … Continue reading Empathy Anyone?
The following post comes from Karen Halverson Cross at John Marshall Law School in Chicago. Karen participated in the Works in Progress Conference last fall and this is the very timely paper following from it. My paper, ”Letting the Arbitrator Decide? Unconscionability and the Allocation of Authority between Courts and Arbitrators,” addresses a topic that … Continue reading Letting the Arbitrator Decide Unconscionability
I am just returning from UNLV’s wonderful conference on Conflict Resolution in a time of Economic Crisis. We (myself & Natalie Fleury, our program manager for dispute resolution here at Marquette) were part of a panel talking about foreclosure mediation around the country. Speakers on our panel discussed Ohio, Florida, Nevada in addition to ours. … Continue reading Foreclosure Mediation Program Differences?
