Last month I sent you Leading a Divided Campus: Ideas and Illustrations and a checklist for students to extend support to their friends. I write today about a resource just published — Joint Campus-Law Enforcement Preparation for Campus Demonstrations and Hate Incidents amid Violence in the Middle East: Ideas for an Agenda, https://go.osu.edu/dcpgle. We in … Continue reading Joint Campus-Law Enforcement Preparation for Campus Demonstrations and Hate Incidents amid Violence in the Middle East: Ideas for an Agenda →

In November, OSU’s Divided Community Project responded to a request from the AAA-ICDR Foundation to provide student- and campus-focused resources for campus leaders dealing with the effects of the violence in the Middle East.  The project’s first deliverable from their #CampusBridge initiative is a guide, Leading a Divided Campus: Ideas and Illustrations, accessible at https://go.osu.edu/dcpcampus. The … Continue reading New Divided Community Project Resources for Campus Leaders →

As we all know and appreciate, the war in the Middle East is affecting our students deeply, yet unevenly. The Divided Community Project has worked with students at Moritz to create a simple, relatable checklist that encourages students to extend support to other students. Please utilize this checklist, share it throughout your university, or to … Continue reading DCP at Moritz Offers Further Guidance for Universities during a Time of Conflict →

Moritz’s Divided Community Project posted a checklist to help Campus Leaders when divisive incidents, like the issues currently raging in the Middle East, arise. Please feel free to use and share widely: https://go.osu.edu/dcpclcl

Maria Volpe notes that a new publication from the Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, confuses arbitration and mediation. Sad to see this. From the handbook: Important Qualities for Arbitrators, Mediators, and Conciliators• Critical-thinking skills. Arbitrators, mediators, and conciliators must apply rules of law. They must remain neutral and not let their own personal … Continue reading Department of Labor Confuses Arbitration and Mediation →

In Wallrich, et al. v. Samsung, Case No. 22-CV-5506 (N.D. Ill. Sept. 12, 2023), federal district court judge Harry D. Leinenweber ordered Samsung to pay arbitration fees for almost 50,000 arbitration demands – and submit to arbitrating consumers’ claims that Samsung had committed violations of the Illinois privacy laws. Note that the court required this … Continue reading Hoisted By Their Own Petard: Samsung Must Pay Arbitration Fees in Mass Arbitration →

On Thursday September 28 (beginning at 12:10 eastern), Texas A&M Professor Cynthia Alkon will deliver The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law’s 2023 Lawrence Lecture on Dispute Resolution: “Negotiating for Justice in our Criminal Legal System.” Here is the description from OSU’s website. There is widespread and bipartisan agreement that the criminal legal system … Continue reading Cynthia Alkon to Deliver Moritz’s 2023 Lawrence Lecture →

Donna Shestowsky, the Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law at UC Davis School of Law, will deliver the 2023 Schwartz Lecture on Dispute Resolution on April 12, 2023 at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law.  Titled “Discussing Procedure”, the lecture will begin at 12:10 ET and conclude at or before 1:20.  If … Continue reading Donna Shestowsky to deliver Moritz’s Schwartz Lecture on April 12! →

From FOI, ADR Notable and Gary Doernhoefer: A few days spent on the campus of Grinnell College left me more hopeful about our society than I’ve felt in quite a while. Grinnell has a Peace and Conflict Studies concentration (PCS) – a set of courses that will be reflected in the student’s transcript along with … Continue reading We can help tomorrow’s peacemakers today →