The call for papers for this year’s Conference on Empirical Legal Studies has hit. This conference is one of the most prestigious conferences, and this year’s conference will be at Yale Law School. Good luck with your submissions. ———————– CALL FOR PAPERS FIFTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON EMPIRICAL LEGAL STUDIES at YALE LAW SCHOOL November … Continue reading Conference on Empirical Legal Studies – Call for Papers
Among all of the great ideas that came up at the ABA DR Section meetings in San Francisco, the idea of creating a group to provide technical advice on integrating ADR concepts into non-ADR courses may have the most impact. This proposal comes from the one of the shoptalk sessions from the Legal Educators Colloquium on … Continue reading Getting Involved – Call for Volunteers to Assist with the ADR Technical Advisory Project
Jean Sternlight from UNLV recently sent this email out via the AALS ADR Section list serv. Her contact information is below. The Boyd Law School at U. Nevada Las Vegas may be hiring someone to teach two dispute resolution courses next winter/spring semester. We are flexible re: which courses. I guarantee good weather, good colleagues, … Continue reading Thinking about visiting? How does Vegas sound?
Here they are, and congrats to all. Best Law Schools Specialty Rankings: Dispute Resolution Ranked in 2010 1. Pepperdine 2. Hamline / Missouri (tie) 4. Harvard 5. Ohio State 6. Marquette 7. Oregon 8. Fordham / Cardozo (tie) 10. UNLV 11. Penn State 12. Northwestern / UC Hastings (tie) 14. Columbia 15. Arizona State / … Continue reading US News dispute resolution rankings in their entirety
Love them or hate them, the always controversial US News rankings have surfaced (top 50, next 50). As always, we at Indisputably are interested in the specialty rankings because they rank dispute resolution programs among others. The purported top 10 are below, which include a big jump from 4 to 2 for Hamline. Once I have a complete list, I’ll … Continue reading US News Rankings . . . .
Just a short note that most of the contributors to this blog will be in San Francisco for the ABA Dispute Resolution Conference the rest of the week. Our blog may be a little slow this week, but once we get back many of us will comment on the various sessions that we think were interesting. … Continue reading See you in San Francisco
John Lande, one of the panelists on the first shoptalk session during the Legal Educators’ Colloquium, sent this preview via the AALS ADR Section list-serv this morning. I post it here for those ADR Prawfs who have yet to sign up for the list-serv. Michael Moffitt, Jean Sternlight, Nancy Welsh and I want to give a preview of … Continue reading Talkin’ Shop at the ABA DR Section Conference
Consider this story an “Instant Classic” in the Emotional Intelligence annals. According to American’s Finest News Source (aka the Onion) Tulane scientists have made a major breakthrough. Enjoy. hat tip – The Faculty Lounge
For those of you heading to the ABA DR Section Conference in San Francisco next week, I encourage you to participate in the Legal Educators Colloquium (LEC) – the portion of the conference specifically dedicated to ADR Profs. The entire lineup of presentations is available here. You can’t go wrong with any of them. I also … Continue reading Legal Educators Colloquium – ABA DR Section Conference
The ubiquitous Bob Mnookin was interviewed on NPR’s the Diane Rehm Show this morning. Go here for the show and scroll down to the 11am heading for the link to listen. For those of you who aren’t familiar with the show, it’s an hour long interview with emails and calls during the last 15 minutes or so. Naturally he’s discussing … Continue reading Mnookin interviewed on the Diane Rehm Show
