As part of our long-running tradition of posting ADR conference summaries, below is a summary of the Second Annual Schiefelbein Global Dispute Resolution Conference at Arizona State. Mark your calendar now for next year’s conference, scheduled on Friday January 15, 2021. As always, we are happy to post ADR conference summaries on the blog. Send … Continue reading Schiefelbein Global Dispute Resolution Conference – recap
As many of you know, last week was arbitration week in NYC. FOI Jackie Nolan-Haley was kind enough to write a short post detailing Fordham’s contribution, the annual International Arbitration Conference. On Friday, November 22, Fordham Law School sponsored its 14th Annual International Arbitration and Mediation Conference. This year’s conference was held in conjunction with … Continue reading Fordham Law School International Arbitration Conference
If you’re on the listserv, you’ve seen some discussion of this great conference at Fordham last week. FOI Jackie Nolan-Haley was kind enough to forward this short summary of the conference. Marathon weekend in New York City began with a marathon discussion of access to justice at Fordham Law School’s Symposium ADR and Access to … Continue reading Fordham Law School Access to Justice and ADR Symposium
Forwarding in case anyone is interested. ————– The Nominating Committee for the AALS Balance in Legal Education Section is requesting nominations to serve as Executive Committee Board Member beginning January 1, 2020. We’d love to have your nomination! The Balance in Legal Education Section seeks to make law school a more humane experience and to better prepare law students to … Continue reading AALS Balance in Legal Education Section – Nominations for Exec. Committee Bd. Member
As you are likely aware, the US and China are embroiled in a trade war levying tariffs on an assortment of goods that travel between the two countries. Today Bloomberg reports that one of the major barriers to resolving this agreement is President’s Trump’s reputation. After a weekend of confusing signals, Trump’s credibility has become … Continue reading Reputation Matters – the Real World Edition
Every year I do my best to keep track of faculty moves and the like and post them here to spread the news. We’re light on moves again this year, but we have several interesting interim appointments. As I say every year, it’s entirely possible that I’m missing something that should be on the list. … Continue reading Comings, Goings, and Other Milestones – 2019 edition
At the ABA Meeting the team of Deb Eisenberg, Carol Izumi, Lydia Nussbaum, and Ellen Waldman put together a great program on trigger warnings as a part of the Legal Educators’ Colloquium. After hearing their discussion of students having difficulties coping with some of the issue brought up during in simulations, I was a bit … Continue reading Trigger Warnings Needed Here? (Updated 8/9/19)
I’ve been meaning for some time to highlight ADR articles that are published in mainline law reviews where blog readers might not see them as easily as they otherwise might. So here’s the first go around, and this will probably be more monthly than article by article. Bradford, C. Steven. Online arbitration as a remedy … Continue reading Recent ADR Scholarship in non-ADR Law Reviews
We want you to remind about an important and highly interactive international dispute resolution conference taking place on June 18-19, 2019 in Malibu, California. The conference is entitled “Appreciating Our Legacy and Engaging the Future.” It is particularly designed for dispute resolution practitioners, faculty, and leaders to address current issues and to learn from each … Continue reading Appreciating Our Legacy and Engaging the Future – Pepperdine School of Law, June 18 and 19
Amy Cohen (Ohio State), a talented polymath, shared with us the following discussion, first appearing on the Law and Political Economy blog, about how restorative justice is being adopted by penal system reformers on both sides of the political divide. She was kind enough to send it our way for cross-posting. Today, groups of left … Continue reading Cohen on Restorative Justice and Moral Neoliberalism
