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Helfland on Religion and Arbitration

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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 →

Call for Proposals – Collective Redress in the Cross-Border Context

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Stacie  Strong from Missouri is in the Netherlands this semester and is organizaing a conference on collective redresss of cross-border claims.  She sent out a call for papers on the topc recently the ADR list serv, and I’m posting it here in case you missed it.  If you’re interested in going to the Netherlands this summer, this is … Continue reading Call for Proposals – Collective Redress in the Cross-Border Context →

What do the Mets, Bernie Madoff, and Mario Cuomo have in Common?

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If you’ve been paying attention today’s news, you’ve probably heard that the owners of the New York Mets baseball team and Irving Pickard, the trustee for the Madoff vicitms, settled the Trustee’s claim for $1billion in damages for a reported $162million.  This article in the NYTimes gives some interesting information about the case generally and … Continue reading What do the Mets, Bernie Madoff, and Mario Cuomo have in Common? →

ABA DR Section Conference – Legal Educators’ Colloquium

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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 →

The Unfairness of Arbitration?

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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? →

Director, Center for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution – UC Hastings

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 →

Southwest Jr. Clinicians Conference – March 16, 2012 at Arizona State

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 →

Negotiation and Ethics – in the Palm of Your Hand?

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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? →