And you thought basketball is what put Loyola-Chicago on the map.  TFOI Teresa Frisbie provides this first-hand report about the World Mediation Congress, which Loyola recently hosted. The 300+ mediators, judges, attorneys and students at the International Academy of Dispute Resolution World Mediation Congress and 17th annual international mediation tournament held in March at Loyola … Continue reading Frisbie on the World Mediation Congress at Loyola Chicago →

For those of you who don’t follow the lawprof listserv, Ben Davis (Toledo) had an interesting link to an article describing the use of arbitration clauses in summer associate employment contracts.  In response to that message, Brian Farkas, one of Cardozo’s super adjuncts, had this response that I thought would be enlightening for our broader … Continue reading Arbitration Clauses in Summer Associate Contracts for Employment →

Every year at the ABA DR Section Spring Conference there are several awards that get a lot of attention – for example, this blog announced that Charlie Craver will deservedly receive the Outstanding Scholarly Work Award and the Divided Community Project at (the) Ohio State University, Moritz College of Law also will deservedly receive the … Continue reading ABA DR Section – Chair’s Awards →

Here they are, this year’s US News Rankings for dispute resolution programs.  Unlike the rankings for law schools, these are voted on by law school faculty – consider them reputational rankings.  Congratulations to all ! Rank School Name 1 Pepperdine University 2 Ohio State University (Moritz) 3 Harvard University 4 Mitchell Hamline School of Law 5 … Continue reading 2018 US News Rankings →

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 →