I spent two days at the end of last week attending a conference at the Regent University School of Law on Promoting the Rule of Law in East Africa.  The conference was well organized and included an impressive list of thoughtful and thought provoking speakers (see here ).  The conference included a number of … Continue reading When children are being sacrificed, why is love a crime? →

I have a Dropbox account and use it to store a lot of my cloud-based documents. Dropbox emailed its users late last week, announcing changes to its Terms of Service, including the addition of an arbitration clause.  Notably, the clause included submission of disputes to the AAA for arbitration, a right to opt out within 30 … Continue reading Dropbox adds Arbitration Clause to its Terms of Service →

I’m not sure I’m surprised by the contents. Depends on how optimistic I was feeling before I read the draft.  Available at bit.ly/1ma8X3S TOTH: John Steele (@JohnSteele2225) via Twitter    

Colleagues — the University of Oregon School of Law is seeking a Program Director for our nationally ranked ADR Center. The position description is here. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you would like any additional information. And please forward to anyone you think might be interested. Thank you!

Have you been a law prof for less than 10 years?  Got a paper you’d like to have workshopped?  Want to enjoy some great Phoenix weather and catch a spring training ball game?  If you can answer three of those four questions in the affirmative, join in the fun at the 5th annual ASU Legal … Continue reading ASU Legal Scholars Conference – March 14 and 15, 2014 →

Sheila Purcell (Hastings) provides this synopsis of the Northern California ADR Faculty Conference which Hastings hosted on February 1st.  Sounds like it was a fantastic event. On February 1, 2014  the UC Hastings Center for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution and the Gould Center at Stanford Law School co-hosted the Northern California ADR Conference.  Faculty and … Continue reading Highlights of the Northern California ADR Faculty Conference →

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The Transnational Dispute Management (TDM) Journal announces its new volume, Reform of Investor-State Dispute Settlement: In Search of a Roadmap. From the TDM publisher: TDM focuses on the forms, methods, strategies and implications of transnational dispute management: commercial and investment arbitration, mediation, negotiation, including the culture of arbitration, economic analysis and organisational and managerial techniques. … Continue reading Check out the Transnational Dispute Management Journal →

Hi all–as many of you know, the ABA Section on Dispute Resolution conducted a survey last year of its lawyer members and the results are in!  The report by Gina Brown and myself can be found here.  Our abstract is below: This report to the ABA Section on Dispute Resolution outlines the results of a … Continue reading ABA DR Section Survey on Gender Differences →

Request for Proposals Hosting the AALS Alternative Dispute Resolution Section 2014 Works-in-Progress Conference  The AALS Alternative Dispute Resolution Section is seeking a host for the 8th Annual Works-in-Progress Conference to take place in the fall of 2014.  The WIP Conference has become one of the “must attends” in the ADR academic field.  Previous hosts include … Continue reading Call for Proposals – 2014 Works in Progress Conference →