This year’s rankings have been released, with Ohio State leading the way once again. Looking at the rankings, the schools in the top 10 look pretty familiar and there are a lot of ties. Some schools made huge jumps – like Stetson (up 33 spots), Miami (up 22 spots), Houston (up 19 spots), and Pace … Continue reading 2025 USNews ADR Rankings
Watching the dismantling of much of what I have understood the United States to be and to stand for has left me questioning a lot of things, like it has with most everyone. The one I want to noodle on here is what it means for us as a field. Is this an existential crisis … Continue reading An Existential Crisis for the Field?
I’ve been highlighting the academic winners of the CPR Awards with short summaries of the each award winner (past entries here, here, here, and here , and this is the final post of this series.* Today I’m highlighting one of the recipients of the Outstanding Contribution to Diversity Award, an award that typically does not go … Continue reading Final CPR Award Summary – Simpson, Outstanding Contribution to Diversity Award
Yesterday the ADR Prof list serv lit up with the news that Jen Reynolds, one of Indisputably’s regular contributors, has been appointed Dean of the University of Oregon’s Law School. Yay !! From the university’s press release: The feedback we received during the extensive search process repeatedly returned to the idea that Jen will bring … Continue reading Jennifer Reynolds named Dean at Oregon
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
