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
As you watch today’s March Madness action, you may see a university promo spot featuring one of your Indisputably contributors. Who of us has the celebrity status to merits video time with Mother Theresa and Desmond Tutu? Or, to ask it differently, who would be shameless enough to suck up to the university administration to be prominently placed … Continue reading Celebrity or Shameless Suck-Up?
Today started on a sad note when I woke up to NPR to hear that Alex Chilton, a music icon in my eyes, passed away. If my life were a movie, surely a couple of his songs would be on the soundtrack. Alex Chilton was a singer-songwriter who is most well known for the huge mid-1960s hit … Continue reading Alex Chilton, R.I.P.
It’s hard to believe that it’s been two months since the AALS Annual Meetings in New Orleans (was it cold there or what?). I had promised to give a report about the ADR Section’s program, and it’s taken me longer to get to this than anticipated to to it. Nevertheless, the program was first-rate and … Continue reading Overcoming the Difficulties of Teaching Negotiation Ethics – AALS ADR Section Program, Part 1
Sean Nolon from Vermont Law School would like to hear how your law school teaches dispute resolution. Several of you have received this, but we want to make sure we catch as many people as possible. This data collection project is a component of what Sean presented at this fall’s Works-in-Progress Conference. Dear colleagues (with apologies for cross-postings), … Continue reading Dispute Resolution in the Law School Curriculum – Your Help Requested
