With most schools starting last week or this week, it is time to take note of significant moves and other personnel events.  While I try to keep track of things as they’re announced, I may not have captured everything.   If you have information that should be on this list, please send me an email so … Continue reading Comings and Goings 2016-17 edition →

U.S. Magistrate Judge Sallie Kim was recently interviewed in the Recorder (the legal newspaper in the Bay Area) about various aspects of being a Magistrate Judge, including hosting judicial settlement conferences.  I’ve been spending some time thinking about the real differences between judicial settlement conferences and mediations (most in the Phoenix legal community call them … Continue reading U.S. Magistrate Judge Sallie Kim (N.D. Cal.) talks about settlement conferences →

In the wake of the acquittals of several police officers charged in the death of Freddy Gray in Baltimore,  Vann R. Newkirk II has a piece in the Atlantic suggesting restorative justice instead of using the criminal or civil trial processes (link here).  It’s an interesting read, with among other things a comparison of Baltimore’s … Continue reading Restorative Justice in the Atlantic →

Today the University of Houston filed a trademark infringement suit against the South Texas College of Law to keep the former from changing its name to the Houston College of Law.  Specifically the complaint states: South Texas College of Law (STCL) recently announced a name change to “Houston College of Law,” a name strikingly similar … Continue reading University of Houston Files Trademark Infringement Suit Against Houston College of Law (fka South Texas) →

If you haven’t already received the RFP for the ABA DR Section’s Spring Conference via email (from the ABA itself or on the list serv from Erin Archerd), you can now access it here.  The due date is August 3rd at 5pm ET.  The conference will be in San Francisco on April 20-23, 2017. From … Continue reading RFP for the ABA DR Section’s Spring Conference →

Yesterday the South Texas College of Law announced that it was renaming itself the Houston College of Law.  According to the Chronicle of Higher Education: Board Chairman J. Ken Johnson said in a statement the name was changed in part to create a stronger association with the 93-year-old law school and the nation’s fourth-largest city.  … Continue reading University of Houston Law Center v. Houston College of Law (formerly known as the South Texas College of Law)) →

Every summer University of Chicago Law Prof Brian Leiter posts lists of the most cited scholars in various disciplines at his blog Brian Leiter’s Law School Reports.  Today he posted his  Most Cited Faculty in Law and Social Science Rankings which are based on the Gregory Sisk’s and colleagues’ scholarly productivity rankings of law school … Continue reading Leiter: Most Cited Law and Social Science Scholars (Plus) →

FOI Rishi Batra (Texas Tech) is kind enough to give us the key take-away information from a panel at the ABA DR Section Spring Conference last week discussing various podcasts that intersect w/ our field.  Enjoy and thanks Rishi. ————————————————– Thank you to those of you who came to our panel Heard Not Seen: Internet … Continue reading Batra – Heard Not Seen: Internet Radio for the ADR Minded →

Carrie Menkel-Meadow (UC-Irvine) received an honorary doctorate from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (aka KU Leuven) in Belgium in conjunction with a two-day conference to “Beyond Mediation – Building Blocks of Constructive Conflict Management.”  Here is a great video of the event and her remarks.  The local press had this to say about Carrie and the … Continue reading Menkel-Meadow Awarded Honorary Doctorate →