On November 6th our friends at Fordham will be hosting their annual dispute resolution forum, this one on the intersection between culture and disputing processes. Professor Oscar Chase from the NYU Law School will be the keynote speaker and will be followed by an excellent panel of discussants. For more information, including registration information, go … Continue reading The Relationship between Culture and Disputing Processes
The winners of the ABA’s 2009 Boskey Dispute Resolution Essay Competition for Law Students were recently announced, and awards the winners are [drum roll please]: First prize went to Andrea Yang from the Georgetown University Law Center for her paper entitled Ethics Codes for Mediator Conduct: Necessary But Still Insufficient. Honorable Mention was awarded to … Continue reading Boeskey Competition Winners Announced
Our friends at St.Johns in NYC are hosting an interesting conference on the intersection of bankruptcy and dispute resolution entitled ADR Meets Bankruptcy: Cross-Purposes or Cross-Pollination? There’s a good line-up of speakers, which should make the program worth your time if you can go. In this economic climate, I expect there’s plenty of intersection of … Continue reading ADR Meets Bankruptcy: Cross-Purposes or Cross-Pollination?
Since I’ve been posting about hiring in the legal academic market this year, I’d be remiss if I failed to plug the Aspiring Law Professors Conference that we’re hosting here at Arizona State on Saturday October 17th. The conference is designed for those who are going on the teaching market and will focus on issues … Continue reading Aspiring Law Professors Conference
I’ve been a subscriber to the National Arbitration Forum’s ADR Law & Policy Update for a couple of years now, and I have to say that I miss my weekly (or so) emails. I’m guessing that the Update is a casualty of the NAF’s difficult summer (see here and here among other places), and that’s … Continue reading ADR Law & Policy Update – Where Have You Gone?
Earlier this week I criticized an article in the last month’s ABA Journal saying that there’s work to be had as an ADR neutral due to the economic downturn. You can see the post here. Since then a colleague brought an article that backs up my assertions about the difficulties of entering the profession and … Continue reading Where the Work Is – Cont’d
The International Ombudsman Association has announced its first student writing competition, inviting law students and other graduate students to submit articles arguing for a statutory privilege for organizational ombudsmen. More information can be found here. For a short preview, here’s the call of the question: For this article, assume that you are advising the legislature … Continue reading International Ombudsman Association Writing Competition
An article in the most recent ABA Journal entitled “Where the Work Is” (here) listed ADR as one of the subfields of law where there are likely to be jobs during the current economic downturn. The article states that legal services consumers are seeking to avoid litigation costs and concludes that has been a boon … Continue reading Where the Work Is
The AALS Placement Bulletin, which provides the hiring announcements for all the law schools across the country, is hot off the presses. Based on a quick review of the bulletin last night and requests I’ve received for names of candidates, the market for ADR law profs looks pretty good this year. If anyone knows of … Continue reading Which Law Schools are Looking to Hire ADR Profs ?
As many readers of this blog already know, foreclosure mediation is booming across the country. Many states with judicial foreclosure procedures (as opposed to non-judicial foreclosure states) are requiring mediation before any hearings on the foreclosure process. Add Florida with its strong ADR practices to the list. The Florida Supreme Court’s residential-foreclosure task force is … Continue reading Mandatory Mediation in Florida Home Foreclosures
