Jonathan Cohen (Florida) has published two articles this summer: The Path Between Sebastian’s Hospitals: Fostering Reconciliation After a Tragedy and Conflicts as Inner Trials: Transitions for Clients, Ideas for Lawyers. Professor Cohen writes: “The Path Between Sebastian’s Hospitals: Fostering Reconciliation after a Tragedy” is a multi-year case study of a tragic event – the death … Continue reading Cohen on Fostering Reconciliation and Conflicts as Inner Trials →

Carrie Menkel-Meadow (Georgetown, UCI) has published Introduction & Coda, Multi-Party Dispute Resolution,Democracy and Decision Making: Vol. Il of Complex Dispute Resolution. The first part is on SSRN and the rest is coming soon. The abstract: The Complex Dispute Resolution series collects essays on the development of foundational dispute resolution theory and practice and its application … Continue reading Menkel-Meadow on Multi-Party Dispute Resolution, Democracy, and Decision Making →

Jennifer Schulz (Manitoba) has published Settlement and Mediation in Canadian Legal Television in the Journal of Arbitration and Mediation. The abstract: This article is a close cultural legal analysis of The Associates, a Canadian legal television program. It describes what The Associates reveals about popular understandings of settlement and mediation in Canada. The show portrays … Continue reading Schulz on Settlement and Mediation in Canadian Legal Television →

Just a reminder to send me your recent publications — we are happy to post! Along those lines, available now on SSRN is my essay, “The Lawyer with the ADR Tattoo,” forthcoming in the Winter 2013 issue of the Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution. Your feedback, thoughts, criticism, etc. welcome. The abstract: Should you hide … Continue reading Reynolds on the ADR Tattoo →

For those of you who have not been reading novelist Lee Child’s Jack Reacher series, Jack Reacher is an ex-Army MP who drifts around the country trying to live anonymously and alone but instead inevitably–once per novel, in fact–getting involved in some local power struggle that requires him to take matters into his own hands … Continue reading ADR Students and Jack Reacher →

From FOI Kristen Blankley (Nebraska): What I Did on My Sumer Vacation . . . . or . . . . Everything I Need To Know About Negotiation, I Learned From Pre-Schoolers? Having spent quite a bit of time over the summer around pre-schoolers, “Aunt Kristen” has learned quite a bit about negotiation in the … Continue reading Blankley on “What I did on my summer vacation” →

From FOI Kristen Blankley (Nebraska): “Don’t put yourself in a bad situation.” This phrase was one of my dad’s favorite pieces of advice for me growing up (and still is to this day). What he meant was: “Don’t go to that party with underage drinking,” or “Don’t be alone with that boy in his dorm … Continue reading On Contribution and Blame →

Bobby Harges (Loyola New Orleans) has published The Handbook on Louisiana Alternative Dispute Resolution Laws, available here. Professor Harges’s description: This book is intended to serve as a handbook that presents a broad overview of the laws governing the assorted Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) processes as they are used in Louisiana. The main objective of … Continue reading Harges on Louisiana ADR Laws →

Stacie Strong (Missouri) has published three articles on the arbitration of internal trust disputes: “Arbitration of Trust Disputes: Two Bodies of Law Collide” (abstract) “Mandatory Arbitration of Internal Trust Disputes: Improving Arbitrability and Enforceability Through Proper Procedural Choices” (abstract) “Empowering Settlors: How Proper Language Can Increase the Enforceability of a Mandatory Arbitration Provision in a … Continue reading Strong on the Arbitration of Internal Trust Disputes →

Environmental Conflict Resolution (ECR) is a next-generation dispute resolution field that brings together environmental/natural resources/energy law, public policy, multilateral bargaining, ADR, and litigation. In January 2013, the AALS Section on ADR will present a panel discussion: “Environmental Conflict Resolution (ECR): A Report Card.” We have a star panel: Larry Susskind (MIT), Irma Russell (Montana), Sean … Continue reading Call for Papers — AALS 2013 →