By now, you know that students are using AI. Some faculty express concern, and they hope that AI tools will just go away – or that students won’t use them. Not gonna happen. One recent study found that 86% of university students occasionally, frequently, or very frequently use general artificial intelligence tools. About 70% of … Continue reading What Do AI and Sex Have in Common?
For those who might be interested, I am passing along this Call for papers for a Special Issue of Transnational Dispute Management (TDM, ISSN 1875-4120) titled “One Century of Arbitration in the United States: The Federal Arbitration Act at Home and Abroad” edited by professors Björn Arp and Kiran Nasir Gore. The United States’ Federal Arbitration … Continue reading TDM Call for Papers for a Special Issue on “One Century of Arbitration in the United States: The Federal Arbitration Act at Home and Abroad”
UC Law SF is honored and thrilled to be able to host the 18th Annual AALS ADR Works-in-Progress Conference. Please join us on October 24-25 in the heart of San Francisco! This year’s conference will follow the typical format, starting with a reception with heavy hors d’oeuvres on Thursday October 23 from 5:30 p.m. to … Continue reading AALS ADR Works-in-Progress Conference (Registration deadline August 31)
Posted on behalf of FOI Kristen Blankley (Univ of Nebraska-Lincoln): The AALS DR Section is excited to announce the winner of the 2024 Best Scholarly Article Award: Rachel Wechsler (Missouri) for Intimate Partner Violence: Access to Protection Beyond the Pandemic, published in the Boston College Law Review (2024). You can access the article here. The … Continue reading Winner of AALS Section of DR 2024 Best Scholarly Article Award
This post introduces a new 27-minute video, How Faculty and Students Can Use AI Effectively, which outlines principles for using artificial intelligence in legal education and dispute resolution. It explains how to write effective prompts, assess AI responses, and use these tools responsibly. The video provides a general introduction to AI, including tips for using … Continue reading How Faculty and Students Can Use AI Effectively
I have been interested in the use of AI in legal education, as you may have noticed. Law schools up and down the US News hierarchy have undertaken initiatives to incorporate AI in a wide range of activities involving curriculum, research, policy, innovation, client service, and access to justice. This post highlights Case Western Reserve’s … Continue reading Case Western’s Model of AI Education in Law Schools
Thanks once again to Peter Reilly (Texas A&M) for compiling this edition of ADR Scholarship Projects, highlighting the many wonderful works our community is producing! Hal Abramson (Touro Law) I am pleased to report that my article entitled Time-Pressured Negotiations should be published this summer in the Harvard Negotiation Law Review. I also finished a short … Continue reading ADR Scholarship Projects – August 2025
Imagine you’re a mediator and someone tells you what’s troubling them. They’re deeply upset about a product they believe poses serious risks. They cite past harms, question whether it should ever have been introduced, and urge that it be removed from the market or tightly restricted. The product is already in widespread use, integrated into … Continue reading Thinking Like Mediators About the Future of AI
IAALS, the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System at the University of Denver, released a new report, Regulating AI in the Delivery of Consumer-Facing Legal Services: Unlocking Legal Regulation. The report outlines a framework for how the legal profession can respond to the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) tools already being used … Continue reading IAALS Publishes Report on AI for Consumer-Facing Legal Services
Critics warn that AI will undermine the value of education, eroding students’ critical thinking and writing skills. They might be right – if faculty ignore AI. You could respond to these warnings by not adopting an AI policy or simply prohibiting students from using it. If so, critics’ predictions are likely to become self-fulfilling prophecies. … Continue reading AI Critics Might Be Right – If Faculty Do Nothing
