While mediation is common in the legal system, the public is not very familiar with mediation and what happens in the process. This lack of familiarity is not helped by mediation on the big or little screens (see Wedding Crashers or Fairly Legal) or by the confidentiality protections that keep people from discussing their mediations … Continue reading Publicizing Mediation Successes
After my blogging absence for most of May, I’ve got quite a bit to catch up on. There’s more from the ABA DR Section Conference and more about journaling, Sheriff Joe and the DOJ, ASU’s new legal venture, and the disbarment of the former Maricopa County Prosecuting Attorney (a special for those who also teach PR). In … Continue reading Faculty Hiring at Arizona State
In March I posted a call for papers sent by Stacie Strong (Missouri) who has been visiting in the Netherlands and organizing the Henry G. Schermers workshop. The theme for this year’s workshop is “Collective Redress in the Cross-Border Context: Arbitration, Litigation and Beyond.” Now that program is set, Stacie has asked me to post some info about … Continue reading The Henry G. Schermers Workshop in the Netherlands
Fellow Indisputably contributor Jen Reynolds scored several accolades at the University of Oregon’s recent graduation. Besides being selected by the student body to be a commencement marshal, she received both the Hollis Award, the law school’s highest teaching honor, and the University’s Ersted Award for Distinguished Teaching , for faculty early in their teaching careers. … Continue reading Kudos to Jen Reynolds
Friend of Indisputably Jean Sternlight (UNLV) recently sent a reminder on the ADR law prof list serv about the ABA Dispute Resolution Section’s Boskey Writing Competition. Just to make sure we get the message as widely distributed as possible, her message is below. If your students wrote good dispute resolution papers there is still time to suggest … Continue reading Boskey ADR Writing Competition
Friend of Indisputably Kristen Blankely (Nebraska) was kind enough to jot down her thoughts about journaling while preparing her for her panel on integrating writing skills into ADR courses. A personal note – I’ve cut way back on the journaling over the years, but I was crazy enough to require 9 journals the first time … Continue reading Why I Assign Journaling
This may be first joke posted on Indisputably. What’s the difference between a terrorist and a mother-in-law? You can negotiate with a terrorist. Moty Cristal – Israeli crisis negotiator during his keynote address.
Sean Nolon from Vermont Law School asked me to post the following RFP for the 3rd Annual Colloquium on Environmental Law. From his email sent out to the ADR listserv: For those of you who are working on scholarship in the area of environmental dispute resolution, let me direct your attention to an upcoming event at Vermont … Continue reading THIRD ANNUAL COLLOQUIUM ON ENVIRONMENTAL SCHOLARSHIP
Indisputably contibutor Sarah Cole just sent out a message about the 2012 AALS ADR Section’s Works-in-Progress Conference, which was recently awarded to Ohio State. The message, or should I say teaser, is below. Save the date and we look forward to hearing more from her about the conference at the ABA DR Section meetings in DC next week. See you … Continue reading Ohio State to Host 2012 AALS Works-in-Progress Conference
If you’re not a regular reader of Prawfsblog, you’ve missed out on some excellent guest blogging by Michael Helfland (Pepperdine). Helfland’s primary interest areas are arbitration and the intersection between law and religion and, not surprisigly, his Prawfs posts of interests focus on those two themes. In the first post he uses a case out Florida involving the Church of … Continue reading Helfland on Religion and Arbitration
