From Jean Sternlight: Yesterday the Supreme Court granted certiorari in what could be an extremely important case addressing the intersection of mandatory arbitration and class actions. AT & T Mobility v. Concepcion, 2010 WL 303962, Docked 09-893 (May 24, 2010) poses the following question: “Whether the Federal Arbitration Act preempts States from conditioning the enforcement … Continue reading Cert granted in AT & T Mobility v. Concepcion
From Jean Sternlight: I write to encourage you to have your students submit their good papers to the ABA Dispute Resolution Section Boskey Writing Competition. Named after James Boskey, a long-time leader in our field, the competition is open to all full and part-time J.D. students. To be eligible papers should address an aspect of … Continue reading Boskey Competition – Call for Papers and Judges
Yesterday, my Judge died. Ann Aldrich, the federal judge for whom I clerked when I got out of law school, was a Carter appointee. She was one of the first women to graduate from NYU’s law school. As a practitioner, she argued the United Church of Christ v FCC civil rights case that expanded the … Continue reading My Judge
Deborah Jones Merritt (Ohio State) has recently posted her article “Pedagogy, Progress, and Portfolios” to SSRN (link here). She presents thorough and intriguing visions of “Professional Learning Portfolios.” One piece of her article describes the implications for those of us who teach ADR, although frankly, I think the ideas have at least as much relevance … Continue reading Professional Learning Portfolios in law schools
The folks at the Werner Institute have launched adrhub.com, a portal focused on ADR. I’ve spent a little time there, and I plan to check back often in the next few weeks to see how it develops. Some of the materials and information it looks like they’re planning to make available would be great contributions. … Continue reading ADR portal “ADRhub” launched
Geoff Sharp, a mediator from New Zealand, is the mind behind Mediator blah…blah. I still have that blog site bookmarked, even though Geoff shut it down a long time ago. It was one of the best, smartest, most insightful mediation sites around, in my opinion. I miss it. If you didn’t catch it the first … Continue reading Geoff Sharp is back in the ADR blogosphere
I got an email earlier this week from Susan Raines at Kennesaw State University, with an announcement that their PhD program in International Conflict Management is accepting applicants. Program website here: http://phd.hss.kennesaw.edu/ I don’t know much about their program. And unless I’m mistaken, it’s new enough that I shouldn’t feel badly about that particular aspect … Continue reading PhD in International Conflict Management
I’m an Associate Dean. My life during this season is dominated by creating, defending, adjusting, and then defending again a complex academic calendar. The unworkable puzzle created by several dozen faculty members’ teaching preferences (not all of which are articulated until after they see something that fails to satisfy one or more of their interests) … Continue reading Course Scheduling as a Multi-Party Negotiation
From Ran Kuttner at Creighton: The Werner Institute for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution at Creighton University School of Law welcomes applications for a full-time faculty position in Conflict Resolution to begin August 2010. As Assistant Professor of Conflict Resolution, the successful candidate will teach graduate courses in Conflict Analysis and Dispute Resolution. The position will … Continue reading ADR Academic Job: Werner Institute
From Jean Sternlight: On March 12-13 of this year the Saltman Center for Conflict Resolution offered a conference entitled Conflict Resolution and the Economic Crisis. Including approximately 30 speakers from around the country the conference focused on a variety of ways in which conflict resolution tools can be used effectively to deal with consequences of … Continue reading UNLV Conference on Conflict Resolution & the Economic Crisis
