Today on NPR’s Morning Edition StoryCore interview, the father of a victim of a school shooting (Greg Gibson) and the shooter who killed his son (Wayne Lo) talked about the event and their lives 25 years after the incident. Gibson wrote a book about the event and he talked to everyone – except for Lo. … Continue reading Restorative Justice and Apologies
Scholastica, the service many of us use to disseminate our articles to law reviews, recently interviewed Donna Shestowsky (UC-Davis) about her work on litigant awareness of court ADR programs. Here’s the interview in full. Imagine waiting a year or more to go to trial for a civil dispute that could have been resolved in less … Continue reading Scholastica interview with Shestowsky
If you didn’t see the blog or the listserv a little over a week ago, you missed the announcements of two major awards. Carol Izumi (UC-Hastings) received the William Pincus Award for outstanding service and commitment to clinical legal education, the highest award the AALS’s Clinical Section bestows. And, Carrie Menkel-Meadow (UC-Irvine) received the ABA … Continue reading Recent Major Law Faculty Awards
From Donna Erez-Navot at Cardozo. Dear Dispute Resolution Community:Dear Dispute Resolution Community: The Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution is very excited to announce that the 2017 Jed D. Melnick Symposium, Persistent Human Divides: Creative Initiatives for Communication, Collaboration, and Cohesion, will be available to live stream on November 13, 2017! Links to the live stream … Continue reading Live Stream Links: Melnick Symposium – Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution
FOI Alyson Carrel (Northwestern) sends this dispatch from the Stanford Law + Design Summit at Stanford last week. Last Friday, I had the opportunity to attend the Stanford Law + Design Summit hosted by their Legal Design Lab. Although I was invited to attend because of my new role at the law school in legal technology, … Continue reading Carrel on the Stanford Law + Design Summit
I recently posted about the Equifax Fiasco, and am still having problems getting everything straightened out with them. I’m resigned to thinking that when 143 million people try to do something at once, there will always be bottlenecks. FOI Jean Sternlight (UNLV) had a recent op-ed in Law360 discussing how the Equifax Fiasco relates to … Continue reading Sternlight on the Equifax Fiasco
By now you’ve probably heard that Equifax was hacked and the personal data for approximately half the country has been compromised. Naturally, you should check to see if you were affected here. I’m proud to say that I’m potentially affected and scheduled to work with them on Wednesday – yay! On Friday evening on the … Continue reading The Equifax Fiasco and Dispute Resolution – updated
Throughout the year I do my best to keep track of faculty moves and the like and post them here to help spread the news. This year’s list is pretty light compared to the last few years, but some big things were afoot – like you weren’t paying attention. If you know of any moves, … Continue reading Comings and Goings – 2017 edition
Registration for the 11th Annual Works-in-Progress Conference at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law is open for 10 more days. The conference is scheduled on Friday and Saturday, October 20th and 21st, with a welcome dinner on Thursday evening October 19th. Come to share current research, obtain feedback, exchange ideas, connect with colleagues, and … Continue reading Just 10 Days Left . . .
Today is the day that registration opens for the 11th Annual AALS ADR Section WIP Conference to be held at Arizona State on Oct. 20th and 21st, with an opening dinner reception on Thurs. Oct. 19th. Not only does registration open today, but today also marks the first day applications for the travel grants for … Continue reading 11th Annual AALS ADR Section Works-in-Progress Conference – Registration Open !!
