I’ve been highlighting the academic winners of the CPR Awards with short summaries of the each award winner (past entries here, here, and here (link) Today, it’s the winner of the Joseph T. McLaughlin Original Student Article or Paper, which goes to an article or paper written by a student. This year’s winner is Samuel Rudolph … Continue reading CPR Awards – Abstract – Bargaining in the Shadow of the EFAA
I’ve been highlighting the academic winners of the CPR Awards with short summaries of the each award winner (past entries summary here and here Today, it’s the winner of the Book Award, The Arbitration Conversation: Insights and Wisdom from Experts in the Field (ABA 2024) by Amy Schmitz (Ohio State). Her summary is below along with … Continue reading CPR Awards – Summary – The Arbitration Conversation: Insights and Wisdom from Experts in the Field
Last week I started a short series highlighting the academic winners of the CPR Awards with a short summary of one of the co-winners of the 2025 Professional Article Award. Today, it’s the other co-winner of this award, Expanding the Ban on Forced Arbitration to Race Claims by Michael Z. Green (Texas A&M) which appeared … Continue reading CPR Awards – Abstract – Expanding the Ban on Forced Arbitration to Race Claims
If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you know that the 2024 CPR Awards were announced last week. I’ve asked the academic winners to send me an abstract or summary of their award winning works to be posted here, which I will be doing over the next couple of weeks. As you might expect, … Continue reading CPR Awards – Article Summary – Comparing Joint Session and Caucus Outcomes: Factoring in Substantive Discussions and Case Characteristics
If you’re on the ADR prof listserv, you’ve seen some congratulatory remarks about the CPR Awards, which were announced yesterday. If you’re not familiar with the awards, the press release announcing them describes the awards as follows: The CPR Institute’s Annual Awards program honors outstanding scholarship and practical achievement in the field of alternative dispute … Continue reading 2024 CPR Award Winners Announced
The powerhouse team of Carrie Menkel-Meadow (UCIrvine) and Andrea Kupfer Schneider (Cardozo) have just published a new book, International Conflict Resolution Processes (Carolina Press 2025). The book will have a teachers’ manual and was developed based on their learning and experiences teaching in 25 countries. Nice cover and blurb below. Congrats ! The book explores … Continue reading International Conflict Resolution Processes – Menkel-Meadow and Schneider
Regular readers will remember that a little over a year ago Carrie Menkel-Meadow (UC-Irvine) warned us that the Negotiation Journal was in crisis, and its demise was a real possibility. Today she announced that it survived and has come out on the other side. It is now an open access journal hosted by MIT and … Continue reading The Negotiation Journal’s Rebirth
Indisputably’s own Jen Reynolds has been named the Interim Dean at Oregon Law starting April 15th – over 10 days ago! Here’s the university’s announcement with more details. We wish her nothing but the best during this new adventure !
It is the time of year for law schools’ yearly genuflecting to the USNews Rankings, and this year is no different – even for those of us in the Dispute Resolution community. With that in mind, here are the 2025 USNews rankings for law school Dispute Resolution Programs. Drumroll please. . . . . Ohio … Continue reading 2025 USNews ADR Specialty Rankings
Empirical researchers Jessica Bregant (Houston), Jennifer Robbennolt (Illinois), and Verity Winship (Illinois) have a new article about lay opinions of settlement. Lots of interesting information here, including that a considerable majority of respondents thought that in an ideal world at least 75% of disputes would be resolved by settlement, with 100% being the most common … Continue reading Settlementality by Bregant, Robbennolt, and Winship
