On Saturday Sept. 27th the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University will be hosting the 6th Annual Aspiring Law Professors Conference. The conference is valuable for anyone considering a career as a law professor, but it is specifically designed for those who plan to go on the academic teaching market. Attendees … Continue reading Aspiring Law Professors Conference – Sept. 27th
Consider this a friendly reminder that the deadline for proposals for the ABA DR Section Spring Conference is September 5th. The conference itself will take place on April 15-18, 2015 at the Westin hotel in Seattle, Washington. According to a recent ABA DR Section email: The Section of Dispute Resolution seeks proposals for cutting-edge, timely … Continue reading Reminder – ABA DR Section Annual Conference Proposals
FOI Jean Sternlight (UNLV) provides us with this guest post on the President’s recent actions on employment arbitration. President Obama today signed a new Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces Executive Order refusing to grant government contracts of over a million dollars to companies who mandate their employees arbitrate disputes involving discrimination, accusations of sexual assault, … Continue reading Sternlight – New Executive Order Blocks Mandatory Employment Arbitration
Lisa Blomgren Amsler (Indiana) sends alog this call for papers from Conflict Resolution Quarterly. ———————- Conflict Resolution Quarterly publishes scholarship on relationships between theory, research, and practice in the conflict management and dispute resolution fields to promote more effective professional applications. Conflict Resolution Quarterly is sponsored by the Association for Conflict Resolution. This call for … Continue reading Call for Papers – Elder Dispute Resolution
Remember when we used to lament the fact that there were no mediation tv shows? Well we had Fairly Legal which was farcically formulaic and often a bit silly. Now we have Untying the Knot, a new reality series on the Bravo network. The show follows New Jersey divorce attorney-mediator Vikki Ziegler as she “mediates” … Continue reading Reality TV Discovers Mediation
From FOI Jackie Nolan-Haley The Ninth Annual Fordham Law School Conference on International Arbitration and Mediation will be held in New York City at Fordham Law School on June 12 and 13. The conference will bring together leading arbitrators, mediators, practitioners and scholars to discuss contemporary issues in international arbitration and mediation. Topics include investor-state … Continue reading Fordham hosting the Ninth Annual Fordham Law School Conference on International Arbitration and Mediation
On Monday, the 9th Circuit handed down its decision in the Wilcox v. Apraio case, a case arising out of the Maricopa County wars – former County Attorney and now gubernatorial candidate Andrew Thomas, with the help of Sheriff Joe Arpaio, indicted several sitting Superior Court judges and several members of the County’s Board of … Continue reading Wilcox v. Apraio – the 9th Circuit Sidesteps Mediation Confidentiality Questions
Stacie Strong (Missouri) sends this dispatch from the recent Institute of Transnational Arbitration – American Society of International Law (aka ITA-ASIL) conference in Washington D.C. ———————————— The last few years have seen a significant number of judicial opinions concerning class arbitration in the United States, both from the U.S. Supreme Court (American Express Co. v. … Continue reading Strong on Class, Mass, and Collective Arbitration discussed at ITA-ASIL Conference
Recently I had the pleasure of having former US Senator Jon Kyl as a guest speaker in my Negotiation course. Time magazine recognized Kyl as one of the world’s most influential people in 2010 (along with Lady Gaga, as he is quick to point out) and as one of the 10 best senators in 2006. … Continue reading Senator Jon Kyl’s 10 Negotiation Lessons
Have your students ever played an April Fool’s Day prank on you? I’ve been lucky, but Stephen Barrows at Aquinas College, is not so lucky. His students pulled one for the ages on him based on his class cell phone policy – if the phone rings you have to answer it on speaker phone. This … Continue reading An Awesome April Fool’s Prank
