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
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
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?
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
