Rishi Batra (Whittier) has just published Providing Dispute Resolution Expertise to the Community in the Winter 2013 issue of Dispute Resolution Magazine. From the introduction: As schools and other public institutions struggle for funding, law schools and their students have new opportunities to fill unmet needs by providing consulting expertise in facilitation and dispute resolution. … Continue reading Batra on Providing DR Expertise to the Community →

Much as I did in 2011, I will be posting some of the student reflections on the trip to Israel as the best way to reflect on the conflict.  I could brag about the students–what the students have learned, how being actually there is so important, how proud they made me with their insight and … Continue reading Israel Reflections 2013–Introduction to the Old City →

Article by that title in the National Law Journal about a week ago.  Available here.  Excerpted below. MM — Budget woes claim ADR program in Los Angeles By Amanda Bronstad   The National Law Journal March 13, 2013 To address an “extreme budget shortfall,” Los Angeles County, Calif., Superior Court plans to close its alternative dispute resolution … Continue reading “Budget Woes Claim ADR Program in Los Angeles” →

As many of our readers know, the Legal Education, ADR and Practical Problem-Solving Project (LEAPS) of the ABA Section on Dispute Resolution Law Schools Committee was launched in 2010 to promote the teaching of practical problem-solving in law school so as to improve legal education.  I am on the Executive Committee, along with Deborah Eisenberg, … Continue reading Update on LEAPS →

Rishi Batra, currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at Whittier Law, and soon to be an Assistant Professor at Texas Tech Unveristy School of Law (congratulations Rishi!), has a new article that is being published by the Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution: Lafler and Fry:  A New Constitutional Standard For Negotiation, available here . The abstract is: … Continue reading New article on Negotiation and Plea Bargaining →

So without the amazing Professor Hinshaw along on my Israel trip this past week, there was no live blogging.  Now that I am back, having survived traveling with 32 law students to Israel last week (just in time to lay the groundwork for the President’s visit this week!), I plan on blogging about the trip … Continue reading Not-Quite-Live Israel Blog 2013–Conflict Sells →

Today, the Columbia Law School Blue Sky Law Blog published a blog posting that I co-authored with Prof. Barbara Black (Cincinatti) with that question as the title.  Click here to read our answer.

As regular readers of this blog will know, our friends Lisa Bingham and Terry Amsler were in a serious accident in London resulting in their hospitalization.   Naturally the people at the Indiana University have the most up to date information on their respective conditions, and here’s the latest from Dean David Reingold of Indiana’s School of Public and Environmental Affairs: As we return from … Continue reading Lisa Bingham and Terry Amsler Update →

Speaking of the WIP, Cynthia Alkon (Texas Wesleyan) has published a paper she presented at the Oregon WIP in 2013, The Flawed U.S. Approach to Rule of Law Development in the Penn State Law Review. The abstract: The key flaw to the United States’ approach to rule of law development is routinely including the “standard … Continue reading Alkon on the Flawed U.S. Approach to Rule of Law Development →

Update: November 7-9 are the dates for this year’s AALS ADR Section Works-in-Progress Conference, hosted by Cardozo Law. Check out the flyer for details.