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
Just before the holidays the US Department of Justice Civil Rights Division concluded a 3 year investigation into America’s Toughest Sheriff, Maricopa County’s (the Phoenix metro) Sheriff Joe Arpaio. The investigation found discriminatory policing against Latinos, discriminatory jail practices against Latinos, a general culture of bias against Latinos in the Sheriff’s Office, and a practice of retaliatory … Continue reading Owen Fiss and Sherriff Joe Arpaio – “Against Settlement”
Friday’s scholarship roundtable at Wash U was great, and I hope you enjoyed the nearly live blogging. It’s always a good time to talk about good papers to help make them better, to catch up w/ folks in the field, and to meet some new people. I know that the comments I received will make … Continue reading New Directions in Negotiation and ADR – reflections
Finishing up on the Wash U ADR roundtable, here is the discussion surrounding John’s paper. Not surprisingly John states that our teaching goal is teach students to negotiate effectively. One criticism he has of the current method is that we tend to focus on negotiating w/ counterparts on the “ultimate” negotiation that is limited to … Continue reading John Lande (Missouri) – Teaching Students to Negotiate Like a Lawyer
This is out of context and in no particular order: Caucus is the refuge of cowards there are no ideological virgins I know we’re talking about author X’s paper, but I really want to comment about author Y’s paper instead Immediately afterwards from Author X – I want to comment on author Y’s paper too. … Continue reading Overheard at Wash U’s New Directions in ADR and Negotiation program
