As many of you know, Pace Law School, largely due to the extraordinary efforts of Pace Prof. Eric Bergsten, founded the Vis Moot competition more than 30 years ago. Prof. Bergsten passed away last summer at the age of 92. I am passing along the below call for tributes to Prof. Bergsten from Pace’s International … Continue reading Call for Tributes to Prof. Bergsten →

A few weeks ago, I had the privilege of attending the Vis Moot in Vienna, Austria on behalf of my law school and arbitrating a few sessions. I used some of my “down time” to visit the Jewish Museum in Vienna (mainly to learn more about the history of Jewish life and persecution in the … Continue reading Conceptions of Peace →

From FOI Tracy Frisch, Senior Counsel for AAA: I wanted to take a moment to bring this important development to your attention (and your inboxes!) Yesterday, the AAA-ICDR Foundation and the JAMS Foundation announced that they have partnered to create a joint grant of $750,000 to support the Ray Corollary Initiative (RCI, Inc.), and all … Continue reading AAA-ICDR and JAMS Foundations Support Ray Corollary Initiative →

Last month, I blogged here about an important rule change that the SEC approved for FINRA Dispute Resolution. After years of debate about the potential harm to investors by allowing non-attorneys to represent investors in securities arbitration and mediations, FINRA proposed barring them from its forum, if they are compensated. [See the prior post for … Continue reading SEC Stays Its Order Approving FINRA Rule Change Barring Compensated Non-Attorney Representation →

On January 11, 2024, the Securities and Exchange Commission approved a rule change to its Codes of Arbitration Procedure and Mediation Procedure — proposed by FINRA — to bar individuals who are not attorneys from representing parties in the FINRA Dispute Resolution forum. Before the rule change, FINRA banned non-attorney representation in its arbitration and … Continue reading Compensated Non-Attorney Representation Banned in FINRA Arbitrations and Mediations →

From BFOI Peter Reilly (Texas A&M): Let me open this edition with gratitude for Quinnipiac-Yale’s wonderful Works-in-Progress conference that took place in October…huge thanks again to Charlie Pillsbury, Carrie Kass, and Jen Brown for an excellent, fun, and productive conference!!! Ava Abramowitz (GW Law), Ken Webb (Kenn Webb Consulting, LLC) and Jennifer Shack (RSI) This is the fourth update on … Continue reading ADR Scholarship Projects (Jan. 2024) →

CPR’s (International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution) monthly newsletter, Alternatives, recently released its October edition. Here is the line-up of interesting articles: International ADR ‘This Train Still Runs’: The Railway Case that Defines Arbitration Legislation and Practice By Adam Samuel CPR News Waxman Will Depart CPR At the End of October By Russ Bleemer  … Continue reading Latest Edition of Alternatives →

From Deborah Eisenberg (Maryland): Dear Colleagues: On behalf of the AALS ADR Executive Committee, I am pleased to announce the winner of this year’s “best scholarly article” award:  Mitchell Zamoff & Leslie Bellwood, Proposed Arbitral Disclosure of Social Media Activity, 23 Cardozo J. of Conflict Resolution 1 (2022). The authors will present the paper at the … Continue reading AALS-ADR Best Article Award of 2023 →

From Maria Volpe (CUNY) Submission deadline: Friday, 1 December 2023 COVID 19 has had a global impact on virtually everything, including the work of conflict resolvers (Phillip-Jones, 2001). It is important that the lived experiences of those who were engaged in any conflict resolution work as practitioners, trainers, scholars, researchers and teachers be memorialized (Blake, … Continue reading CRQ Call for papers: Lived experiences of conflict resolvers during the COVID pandemic →