As the annual ABA DR Section Conference quickly approaches, I want to encourage everyone to attend the Legal Educators’ Colloquium on Saturday April 21st. The LEC always promises great programming and this year’s schedule is fantastic. And I don’t say that simply because 6 of the 8 contributors to this blog will be presenting. More … Continue reading ABA DR Section Conference – Legal Educators’ Colloquium
Love ’em or hate ’em, the US News rankings are out. As is well documented, the overall rankings are subject to lots of criticism, and rightfully so. The specialty rankings are purely peer assessment rankings, which makes them more legit, although I’m sure we can quibble about them too if we want to. That said, … Continue reading US News ADR Rankings
In today’s New York Times, Stanford Law Prof. Amalia Kessler has an interesting op-ed about consumer arbitration. The interesting thing about this piece is not its arguments against consumer arbitration but its historical take on arbitration that looks back past the FAA. That said, it hints at an argument I’ve heard many times about the high percentage of arbitration cases … Continue reading The Unfairness of Arbitration?
Last week (or so) Melissa Nelken at UC Hastings announced that Grande Lum has been nominated to a post at the Department of Justice and has resigned as CNDR’s Director. Excerpts from the job posting are below. And just in case you weren’t sure, this is a great gig. Under the administrative direction of the … Continue reading Director, Center for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution – UC Hastings
I know this is an ADR board, but ADR programs have clinics too. If you know any clinicians (or non-clinicians) who might be interested our upcoming program, please forward the announcement for the Southwest Jr. Clinicians Conference below. Have you been a clinician for less than ten years? If so come and join us at … Continue reading Southwest Jr. Clinicians Conference – March 16, 2012 at Arizona State
Friend of Indisputably, Kristen Blankley, provides this guest post on an two new cell phone apps to keep important information at your fingertips. Who says that the answers to complicated questions arising from negotiation strategy and legal ethics cannot be answered at the tip of your fingers? Thanks to two recently developed apps, they can. The first … Continue reading Negotiation and Ethics – in the Palm of Your Hand?
The annual CPR awards for the best ADR papers, books, and projects were recently announced. Kudos to my friend and ASU colleague Roselle Wissler for winning the Professional Article category with her article Court-Connected Settlement Procedures: Mediation and Judicial Settlement Conferences, 26 Ohio St. J. on D.R. 23 (2011) . Kudos are also due to Mizzou law prof … Continue reading CPR Award Winners Announced !!!
After being part of the panel at the AALS meeting that declared class arbitration dead, Jean Sternlight from UNLV contributes a guest post about the NLRB’s declaration that “they’re not dead yet.” In all seriousness, the discussion on the future of arbitration was fantastic. Thanks to Jean and all of the other presenters, and congratulations to Jen … Continue reading NLRB Bars Class Action Waivers in Labor and Employment Cases
Sometimes adjectives that can be used just about anywhere don’t always work. To be clear, the F-Bomb is featured prominently in the link, so if that’s a problem at your office, hit the link from home. Hat tip: Gawker
Below is a reminder from AALS ADR Section Chair-Elect Ron Aronovsky to attend the section’s program at the AALS meetings in DC later this week. Thanks to Ron for putting together a great program and for prompting this post. On Saturday, January 7, 2012, the AALS ADR Section will host a program at the AALS Annual Meeting … Continue reading AALS Conference – See You in DC
