This year’s AALS ADR Section Works-in-Progress Conference will be taking place two weeks from today at Creighton Law School. The folks at the Werner Institute have put together a wonderful program that promises to please. The conference web site is here, the abstracts of the papers to be presented are here (btw – that’s a great … Continue reading 5th Annual AALS ADR Section WIP Conference, Nov. 4th and 5th
Occasionally I’ll see a message on a list-serv that captures my attention, and that most recently occurred with a recent message sent by Hiro Aragaki (Loyola – LA). I asked if I could post it here, and he agreed. If you’re not familiar w/ Aragaki’s work, he’s quite good at viewing issues from a different vantage point, … Continue reading Aragaki on The Age Myth in Mediation
There’s been plenty of euologies written about Steve Jobs, but this one pulls no punches. http://www.theonion.com/articles/last-american-who-knew-what-the-fuck-he-was-doing,26268/
Just a reminder that nominations for the various awards to be handed out at the ABA Dispute Resolution Section meetings are due soon. The awards are the D’Alemberte-Raven Award, for outstanding service in dispute resolution, the Lawyer as Problem-Solver Award, which recognizes individuals and organizations that use problem solving skills to forge creative solutions, and the … Continue reading ABA DR Section Awards – Nomination Reminder
As with every year, many ADR profs have changed locations. The list is below, and if we’ve missed someone please include the information in a comment. New to Academia (Entry Level) Hiro Aragaki – Loyola (Los Angeles) (from Fordham B-School) Carli Conklin – Missouri Deborah Thompson Eisenberg – Maryland Urska Velikonja – Maryland (former ASU O’Connor … Continue reading Faculty Roster Changes
Last week my good friend Greg Scott, a reading and writing instructor at the University of Missouri, collapsed as he was walking to class and passed away a short while later. Greg’s true love in life was teaching. Not everyone can make Legal Research and Writing somebody’s favorite law school class, but he did time and … Continue reading Gregory J. Scott, 1957-2011
FOI (Friend of Indisputably) John Lande (Missouri) provides this guest blog post to shed light on some recent Collaborative Law Developments. There were two recent decisions involving Collaborative Law that have larger implications about parties’ autonomy in choosing dispute resolution processes generally. In my view, this is a good news-bad news story as one of the decisions recognized parties’ … Continue reading Party Autonomy in Choosing Dispute Resolution Processes
From Jen Reynolds (Oregon) and Gina Brown (ABA DR Section). This is the once-a-year reminder we send out about the online directory the American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolution and the University of Oregon School of Law have been working together for several years to maintain. The directory appears at: http://adr.uoregon.edu/aba/ We hope that … Continue reading Online Directory of Law School ADR Programs
This isn’t quite like the reenactment of the OK Corral shootout I saw when visiting Tombstone, but the point is well taken.
As every reader of this blog should know, Yale Professor Owen Fiss wrote a seminal article entitled Against Settlement, which gave several policy reasons as to why he was (shockingly) against settlement. When he sees this judicial order, he’s bound to add several more. hat tip: Above the Law
