Our friends at Pepperdine will be hosting a conference entitled Teaching Law School ADR Classes: Mediation, Negotiation, Arbitration and the ADR Overview Course on June 21-22, 2011. The conference line up looks great with heavyweights like Carrie Menkel–Meadow, Len Riskin, and Nancy Rogers (to name a few), and the programming is both comprehensive and in-depth. This may … Continue reading Teaching Law School ADR Classes
In light of all of the arbitration opinions coming out of the US Supreme Court the last several years, not to mention the Court’s recent decision to grant cert in CompuCredit v. Greenwood, the AALS ADR Section has issued a call for papers for its upcoming program at the AALS Conference in January 2012. The explanatory … Continue reading Call for Papers: The Supreme Court and the Future of Arbitration
The Oregon Law Review is doing a call for papers for a special ADR-themed issue — “ADR for the Masses” — that addresses some of the challenges and issues inherent in using appropriate/alternative dispute resolution processes in large-scale contexts, including mass torts, mass settlements, collaborative governance, and organizational DSD (not an exhaustive list). The call for … Continue reading Call for Papers – ADR and the Masses
As one would expect, it’s a big day at Indisputably when the Supreme Court issues another arbitration opinion. UNLV law prof and FOI (Friend of Indisputably) Jean Sternlight adds to the analysis. – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – I mostly agree with Paul Kirgis’ explication of the … Continue reading Sternlight on AT&T v. Concepcion
As Jill mentioned last week, the Indisputably crew was assembled in Denver for the ABA DR Section meetings last week. It was good, as always, to hang out w/ the crew – and rumor has it that there are some incriminating photos that may make it on the blog. Luckily they’re all family friendly. Readers know that we’re … Continue reading Temple Grandin and the ABA DR Section Meetings in Denver
If you’ve been following the blog posts related to the Marquette-ASU Israel trip, you’ll recall the awful time we had getting back to the US. Ben Traver didn’t have to endure this problem as he scheduled a couple of extra days in Israel to travel on his own. Having a true sense of adventure and a natural … Continue reading Israel Reflections – A Close Call
After much fanfare in the mediation community when it premiered, including plenty on this blog, there’s been little mention of it. I caught up with more Fairly Legal episodes over the weekend and realized why. Mediation provides a nice setting for the show, but there little mediation going on. Like many other tv shows it manufactures false … Continue reading Reflections on Fairly Legal
As the federal government shutdown is almost an hour away, I’m hard-pressed to give either political party kudos in their negotiation strategy or in their public postering. However, in the Oregon state house Representative Jefferson Smith has been able to do the seemingly impossible – get Republicans and Democrats to work together on an impressive undertaking. … Continue reading An Example of Civil Discourse?
Susan Franck (Washington & Lee, currently visiting at Vanderbilt) recently posted her latest paper, Rationalizing Costs in Investment Treaty Arbitration, on SSRN. The piece continues her empirical work in an important area of international finance, this time focusing on the hot button issue of costs. Noting that several countries have left the investment treaty arbitration world … Continue reading Rationalizing Costs in Investment Treaty Arbitration
This is a deep and serious philosophical question that we ask juries and others who award monetary damages to answer all the time. This weekend I finished Kenneth Feinberg’s book What is Life Worth? describing his work with the 9/11 Compensation Fund. It’s an interesting read that details the working s of the team of … Continue reading What is Life Worth?
