For those of you in Arizona for an early spring break, come and join us this evening at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law as Kenneth Feinberg of 9/11 Victims’ Fund fame delivers the inaugural Bruce E. Meyerson Lecture in Dispute Resolution. For more information, go here.  [Click title of post to access link.] … Continue reading Bruce E. Meyerson Lecture at Arizona State →

Another well deserved award.  Congrats to Grande Lum and the entire Ohio State crew !  Text of the press release is below. The ABA’s Section of Dispute Resolution has named the Divided Community Project (DCP) at the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law the recipient of the 2018 institutional Lawyer as Problem Solver Award, … Continue reading Divided Community Project at Ohio State to Receive Lawyer as Problem Solver Award →

Well deserved !!  The text from the  press release is below. Professor Charles Craver of George Washington University Law School is the 2018 recipient of the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution’s Award for Outstanding Scholarly Work, which honors individuals whose scholarship has contributed significantly to the field of dispute resolution. Craver is the Freda H. … Continue reading Charlie Craver – 2018 Recipient of ABA DR Section’s Award for Outstanding Scholarly Work →

Indisputably ally Stacie Strong (Missouri) sends along the following request for survey participants who who have been arbitrators or judges in commercial disputes, both domestically and internationally. ———————— Those with experience serving as arbitrators or judges in national or international commercial disputes are invited to complete an anonymous electronic survey that is part of an international … Continue reading Survey on Legal Reasoning in Commercial Disputes →

The US District Court for the Western District of New York  pulled settlement week out of the dustbin to help clear some its back log in November 2017.  For those who aren’t familiar with settlement week, a court designates a week to bring civil litigants and mediators to the courthouse in an attempt to resolve … Continue reading Settlement Week in the Western District of New York →

Maureen Weston (Pepperdine) provides this intriguing post from the Ofer military base in Israel. The conflict over the sacred land in the West Bank, which includes East Jerusalem, in Israel is deeply rooted and profoundly intense.  This region has been under rule by the Turks in the Ottoman Empire (1517- 1917), Britain (1917-48), Jordan (1948-67), … Continue reading DR Faculty Seminar in Israel – Israel’s Military Courts: Adjudicating Alleged (Palestinian) Crime and Terror in the West Bank and Gaza →

This guest post comes from one of the blogs founders, Nancy Welsh (Texas A&M). Dr. Moshe Ma’oz is Professor Emeritus of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and was Director of the University’s Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace.  His presentation explored the complexity of Israel’s … Continue reading DR Faculty Seminar in Israel – I Don’t Recognize My Country Any More →

This guest post is authored by our good friend Michael T. Colatrella, Jr. (McGeorge). On the sixth day of our trip, we met with an Israeli security and negotiation expert Ron Schatzberg. Ron works for the Tel Aviv-based think tank, the Economic Cooperation Foundation (ECF), whose mission is to promote a stable, peaceful and prosperous … Continue reading DR Faculty Seminar in Israel – Welcome to the Mouth of the Volcano →

This afternoon we had the pleasure of meeting with Amos Hausner, the son of Gideon Hausner, the prosecutor in the Adolf Eichmann trial – what many believe to be the trial of the 20th century.                      Gideon Hausner                                       Adolf Eichmann For readers wondering who Eichmann was, he was a Nazi officer who … Continue reading DR Faculty Seminar in Israel – Revisiting the Eichmann Trial →

This guest blog post comes courtesy of Lydia Nussbaum (UNLV). This afternoon we visited the Ziv Medical Center in Zafet (aka Safed, Tzfat), a small hilltop town located on the hills above the Sea of Galilee. Although Zafet has a long history and is well known for being the center of Jewish mysticism (Kabbalah), our … Continue reading DR Faculty Seminar in Israel—“Medicine has no borders” at Ziv Hospital, Zafet →