If you’re a reader of this blog, you know that arbitation is a hot legal topic and that the Supremes have handed down several arbitration decisions over the last few years. Earlier today Sarah told us that cert was recently granted in the Rent-a-Center West case, and she gave us her take. Below, Professor Jean Sternlight from the … Continue reading Sternlight on Rent-a-Center West
The annual Empiricial Scholarshiop Workshop, a joint effort of Northwestern University Law School and Washington University Law School, will take place on May 24-26 at the Norwestern campus in downtown Chicago. If you’re wondering whether this conference is for you, here’s a short description. The Conducting Empirical Legal Scholarship workshop is for law school faculty interested in … Continue reading Empirical Scholarship Workshop
It was great seeing many of you at the AALS meetings in blistering cold New Orleans over the weekend. Yup, it was damn cold, and my tolerance for cold weather has dramatically dipped since my move to warm and sunny Arizona. I’ll be blogging later about the paneled discussion on negotiation ethics I participated in (thanks … Continue reading AALS redux
If you are heading to the AALS conference in New Orleans later this week, I want to bring your attention to the ADR Section’s panel on negotiation ethics on Friday afternoon from 4:00 to 5:45pm. The program is entitled, Overcoming the Difficulties of Teaching Negotiation Ethics, and a short description is below. This is going to be … Continue reading An AALS Panel You Won’t Want to Miss
When do mediation and boxing go together? Answer: in the strange case of scheduling a championship boxing match between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao. Yes, these two fighters have scheduled a mediation to help schedule a boxing match. Just to give a little bit of background, these two boxers are considered the best pound-for-pound fighters in the … Continue reading Mediation and Boxing
I’m heading back to Oklahoma to spend the holidays with my folks, and I won’t be on the blog while I’m away – as if I’ve been doing much posting since I’ve started grading (only 10 more papers left and I’m done – yay!). In the meantime I thought I’d leave you with some holiday cheer … Continue reading Happy Hollydays, er uh, Holidays
We have an interesting political issue here in Phoenix that touches on apologies, a topic of great interest to many in the ADR world. In a rather routine sentencing hearing at the Superior Court in the midst of defense counsel’s arguments to the court, a detention officer took a document out of the defense attorney’s … Continue reading Apology and Contempt
I am back in the office after attending the Fourth Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies this past weekend at the USC Gould School of Law, where I presented this draft of my paper on attorney negotiation ethics. Thanks to Russell Korobkin for thoughtful remarks as an official commenter on the paper and to those who … Continue reading Are ADR and Empirical Legal Studies Cousins ?
If you have the chance to attend this year’s WIP conference at Harvard, I suggest that you do for a number of reasons. Of course, the primary reason is that the presentations look strong (list is below) and the presenters would love to hear your thoughts on their works. Also, believe it or not, this … Continue reading AALS ADR Section Works-in-Progress Conference – Harvard Law School Nov. 13th and 14th
Consider this a reminder that proposals to host next year’s AALS ADR Section’s Works-in-Progress Conference are due tomorrow, October 31st. All of the details for submitting a proposal can be found here.
