Last Wednesday’s Legal Educators’ Colloquium of the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution Annual Spring Conference, this year in Las Vegas, featured some wonderful panels on all things “ADR Law Prof.” Besides reuniting in person with our fantastic community, I also spoke on a panel which focused on using ADR Skills as a law school leader. … Continue reading What About Us? Leading in Law School Using ADR Skills
From Tracey Frisch, Senior Counsel, AAA: Please join the AAA-ICDR Foundation and grantee Mediators Beyond Borders International for a special presentation by Ukrainian social psychologist, Dr. Iryna Eihelson. The talk will focus on the importance of trauma-informed practices when working with people affected by humanitarian crises. Dr. Eihelson’s observations are informed by her experience as … Continue reading AAA-ICDR Foundation Presents Trauma-Informed Peacebuilding, Lessons Learned from Ukraine, May 3rd 6-8pm
On Wednesday, March 1, at 12:45 PM (Eastern), Prof. Andrea Schneider (Cardozo) will deliver the 2023 Philip B. Blank Memorial Lecture on Attorney Ethics at Haub Law School (Pace). RSVP here to attend either in person or via Zoom. The title of her talk is “The Conflict in Arbitrator Conflict of Interest Disclosures: Public Judges … Continue reading Sign up to hear Andrea Schneider deliver Blank Lecture at Pace on Arbitrator Ethics
In honor of Valentine’s Day, our wonderful ADR community produced two wonderful sonnets about mediation and circulated them on the DRLE listserv. I am sharing both here, with permissions. From Kristen Blankley (Nebraska), who asked ChatGPT to write a sonnet about the benefits of mediation: I can’t imagine a better way to let go, Mediation … Continue reading Sonnets About Mediation
I am sharing the very sad news that Prof. David Lipsky of Cornell University, luminary in the world of labor and employment ADR and personal mentor to me earlier in my career, passed away last week at the age of 83. His obituary describes his many achievements both in our field and for Cornell University’s … Continue reading In memoriam: David Lipsky
From FOI Peter Reilly (Texas A&M), a round-up of recent scholarly projects from ADR profs: Ava Abramowitz (GW Law) and Ken Webb (Kenn Webb Consulting, LLC) Planned Research: Our research builds on Neil Rackham’s and John Carlisle’s 1978 paper “The Behaviour of Successful Negotiators” (which can be found here). We asked ourselves, can the same … Continue reading ADR Scholarship Projects (Jan. 2023 edition)
For those of you who are not sports/baseball fans, you may not have known (or cared) that Aaron Judge, who has played for the New York Yankees since 2016 and became a free agent after the 2022 season, had been negotiating his new contract. Drafted in 2013 and making his major league debut in 2016, … Continue reading Aaron Judge Contract Negotiations: A Case Study in Leveraging Power
Posted on behalf of Jill Engle, Academic Dean at Penn State Law (University Park): Penn State Law is seeking adjunct faculty for two arbitration courses. One is in our US Arbitration course. The other is in our International Litigation and Arbitration course. Both courses will be offered in the spring 2023 semester (January-May). We can … Continue reading Penn State Law seeking arbitration adjuncts
When I was in Croatia earlier this summer, I took a tour of the beautiful small island of Hvar off the coast of Split. Part of the tour included a stop at the Hvar Public Theater right at the port. When we walked by, I noticed a Latin inscription at the entrance, ANNO SECVNDO PACIS … Continue reading Early Integrative Bargaining in Croatia circa 1612
Earlier this week, President Biden signed the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act, a bill passed by both the House and Senate last month amending the Federal Arbitration Act to ban the enforcement of pre-dispute arbitration clauses for disputes relating to sexual assault and sexual harassment. For a thorough discussion of … Continue reading President Biden Signs into Law An Act Amending the FAA for Sexual Assault/Harassment Claims
