ASU will be hosting the 5th annual Aspiring Law Professors Conference on Saturday September 28, 2013. For anyone going onto the market this year and anyone thinking about taking the plunge into the legal academy, its well worth the time. The conference is free, and there are opportunities to do a mock interview and a mock job talk. Details … Continue reading 5th Annual Aspiring Law Professors Conference
The RFP for the Clinical Conference just hit the newsstands. This year’s theme is “becoming a better clinician” and will be explored along three tracks – learning theory and pedagogy, law school curricular reform, and community engagement and mindfulness. Proposals are due by September 27, 2013. Selections will be made and participants notified by October … Continue reading Request for Proposals – 2014 AALS Clinical Conference, April 27-30, Chicago
Jean Sternlight passes this along this call for papers for what looks like an interesting symposium. ——————————————————————– Forced Arbitration In The Workplace: A Symposium About the Symposium The Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law (BJELL) and The Employee Rights Advocacy Institute For Law & Policy (The Institute) will be holding a symposium on February 27, … Continue reading Call for Papers – Forced Arbitration in the Workplace
ADR law prof favorites Nancy Welsh (Penn State), Donna Stienstra (Federal Judicial Center), and Bobbi McAdoo (Hamline) have recently put a most interesting book chapter, The Application of Procedural Justice Research to Judicial Actions and Techniques in Settlement Sessions, up on SSRN (available here). The piece is a chapter in the recently released book The Multi-Tasking Judge: Comparative … Continue reading Procedural Justice in Judicial Settlement Conferences
Friend of Indisputably Hiro Aragaki (Loyola, Los Angeles) shares his thoughts on Imre Szalai’s (Loyola, New Orleans) new book Outsourcing Justice: The Rise of Modern Arbitration Laws in America. And don’t forget to follow Imre’s blog of the same name (outsourcingjustice.com) which most appropriately states “By reading this blog, you agree to arbitrate. (Just kidding)” … Continue reading Aragaki on Szalai’s Outsourcing Justice: The Rise of Modern Arbitration Laws in America
It seems so early for this announcement, but it is upon us. The ABA Section on Dispute Resolution is seeking proposals for the 2014 conference in Miami. The call is below and the conference proposal web page can be accessed here. ——————————————- The ABA Section of Dispute Resolution Spring Conference Planning Committee is now accepting proposals for … Continue reading Request for Proposals for the ABA DR Section Spring Conference
From Jean Sternlight via the list serv. ————————- University of Nevada Las Vegas William S. Boyd School of Law Saltman Center for Conflict Resolution Psychology and Lawyering: Coalescing the Field Friday, Feb. 21 and Saturday, Feb. 22, 2014 UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law Las Vegas, Nevada In recent years both academics and practitioners … Continue reading Call for Papers – Psychology and Lawyering: Coalescing the Field
Back in the day Kevin Underhill and I were young associates at large law firms in Kansas City and living the life that only single people with lots of disposable income can. Now he’s a big time lawyer in San Francisco and has the funniest legal blog there is – Lowering the Bar – and I’m simply … Continue reading If You’re Standing in Front of a Car, You Are In a Poor Negotiating Position
At the ABA Dispute Resolution Section meetings in Chicago the national rounds of the Representation in Mediation Competition were held. As always, we were very impressed with the competitors, especially the team from Faulkner University’s Thomas Jones Goode School of Law who won the championship. Congrats Faulkner and thanks to all of you who acted … Continue reading Congratulations to Faulkner University – National Champs !!
On Monday evening my ASU colleague Joe Feller was struck by a car and killed while jogging. Joe, a natural resources scholar who engaged in impact environmental litigation, was an ADR skeptic (at best) who thought collaborative processes were being used to subvert the protections offered by the country’s natural resource laws. He expressed his views … Continue reading Joe Feller – Rest in Peace
