As I posted earlier this week, I am in Kosovo for a few weeks at the invitation of the American Bar Association to do an assessment of legal education in the country. As part of that process I had meetings outside of Pristina so we set out for a full day road trip. It is … Continue reading Road Trip, Kosovo style
I am in Kosovo for a few weeks at the invitation of the American Bar Association to conduct an assessment of legal education in the country. Kosovo is a country whose history has been determined by conflict. There are therefore no shortage of dispute resolution issues and topics here and I will try to write … Continue reading Greetings from Kosovo
Last summer I posted a blog entry about the case of U.S. Journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling who were sentenced to twelve years in a labor camp after their brief illegal entry into North Korea. This summer Laura Ling and her sister, journalist Lisa Ling, have published their memoir of those events: “Somewhere Inside: One … Continue reading A Good Summer Read about North Korea
National Public Radio’s All Things Considered reported today on the growth of problem solving courts specifically for veterans. These courts, like drug courts, use a “carrot and stick” approach to provide help to vets who have committed crimes. The story reported that there are currently over 24 such courts and that eligibility is not limited … Continue reading Problem Solving Courts for Vets
One of the many interesting events that I attended in San Francisco at the ABA Dispute Resolution Conference was a session during the Annual Symposium on Dispute Resolution and the Courts devoted to the “Latest Innovations in ADR Programs for Self-Represented Litigants.” This session talked about a number of approaches to educate self-represented litigants in … Continue reading Educating self-represented litigants
The Virginia Legislature did not pass the restorative justice bill, SB 679, during this legislative session. As I reported on Indisputably in January, the bill would have given formal structure to restorative justice programs in Virginia and would have specifically allowed a judge to order an offender into a restorative justice program. The story of … Continue reading Next Year in Virginia?
On April 20, 2010, the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and the New York County Lawyers Association are co-sponsoring a symposium in New York entitled: Problem Solving Courts Symposium: The Pros and Cons of Treatment in the Criminal Justice System. In the symposium “interested groups will debate the various functions of problem-solving courts, including … Continue reading Problem Solving Courts Symposium in NY
Virginia State Senator Emmet Hanger recently introduced a bill in the Virginia Senate which would give formal structure to restorative justice programs in Virginia by specifically recognizing that a court can order an offender into a “court-approved restorative justice program.” The direct link to the bill is: http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?101+ful+SB679 The bill also specifically recognizes that victim … Continue reading Restorative Justice Bill Introduced in Virginia’s Senate
The Center for the Study of Dispute Resolution at the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law won the International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution (CPR) 2009 “Problem Solving in Law School Award.” To read more about the award see http://law.missouri.edu/news/#csdr-011410. In addition, University of Missouri-Columbia Professor S.I. Strong is the co-recipient of the CPR’s … Continue reading Congrats to Mizzou!
The only thing these two movies have in common is that I recently saw each movie. Both of these movies also have some interesting and vastly different views of dispute resolution. Avatar is the classic tale of corporate/colonial greed at the expense of a native population. Some of the humans take the form of avatars … Continue reading Avatar and Invictus
