If you’re interested in internation commercial arbitration and weren’t able to make it to the University of Missouri School of Law for their recent symposium, you’ll want to watch the video linked below of Gary Born, a leading international commercial arbitration figure. Here’s a blurb that Stacie Strong, the conference chair, sent my way. Happy … Continue reading International Arbitration Symposium at Mizzou
The judges of the Delaware Chancery Court have been sued in the US District Court for operating a private arbitration system. The case of Delaware Coaltion for Open Government v. The Honorable Leo E. Streine, Jr. was filed yesterday, October 25th. Several years ago the legislature passed a law authorizing the court to conduct private arbitrations entitled “Arbitration Proceedings for … Continue reading Delaware’s Arbitration System for Business Disputes – Unconstitutional?
The Kellogg School of Management and the Dispute Resolution Research Center (Northwestern’s B-School and Law School) are hosting their 6th Negotiation and Teamwork Teaching Workshop on Saturday Nov. 12, 2011. I went to this workshop several years ago and found it very much worth my time. In fact, it caused me to change how I teach several topics, most … Continue reading Negotiation Teaching Workshop – Northwestern University
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
