John Lash recently posted a brief essay on the Juvenile Justice Information Exchange. It won’t take more than five minutes to read, and it’s well worth your time. The first sentence of the article (“In 1985, at the age of 18, I was sentenced to life in prison for murder.”) and the last sentence of … Continue reading Restorative Justice: An Interesting Perspective
Rick Bales (Northern Kentucky) at the Workplace Prof Blog, via a hat tip to the Law Librarian Blog, via the Chronicle of Higher Education (boy, that’s a lot of “vias”!) describes a lower court’s recent application of Concepcion to a motion to compel arbitration of a student’s claim against Westwood College for misrepresenting its tuition … Continue reading Concepcion Applied to Students’ Claims Against College
CPR, one of the leading ADR organizations in the country, just requested nominations for their annual awards program. Specifically the request states: The focus is on scholarship, which addresses the resolution, prevention or creative management of major disputes involving public or business institutions, such as those between corporations, between government and corporations, or among multiple … Continue reading CPR Awards – Request for Nominations
Over the past few weeks, I have attended two separate, equally fabulous conferences focusing on legal education pedagogy and practice (the Institute for Law Teaching and Learning conference at New York Law School entitled “Engaging and Assessing our Students” and the AALS Section on Clinical Legal Education Conference in Seattle entitled “Learning for Transfer”). I … Continue reading Teaching Problem-Solving
In the shameless art of self-promotion category, I am announcing that registration is open for PLI’s annual continuing legal education program on Securities Arbitration, which I am chairing. I am posting here the formal announcement: In the past year, FINRA sought SEC approval of major rule changes empowering customers to choose an all-public panel in … Continue reading Annual PLI Securities Arbitration Program
Mediation and arbitration have long served as lucrative retirement gigs for former judges. Today, the New York Times reports that Mel Weiss, the disgraced, disbarred, and finally incarcerated former securities class action overlord, has hung out his shingle as a mediator. Weiss can no longer practice law, so he has evidently decided his true calling … Continue reading The Ex-Con Mediator
Last year, UNCITRAL established a Working Group to develop a global online dispute resolution system for the resolution of low-value cross-border disputes, both B2B and B2C. (Former Indisputably blogger Nancy Welsh and my St. John’s colleague Elayne Greenberg have been participating and poked me on this one.) The Working Group published a set of draft … Continue reading UNCITRAL Cross-Border ODR Initiative
The Supreme Court has vacated a Second Circuit decision refusing to enforce an arbitration agreement that included a class action waiver, remanding the case for further consideration in light of AT&T v. Concepcion. In the case, Fensterstock v. Affiliated Computer Services, a law school graduate, Joshua Fensterstock, was the lead plaintiff in a class action … Continue reading Concepcion Fallout
About a year ago or so the Indisputably crew asked Paul Kirgis, Associate Dean at St.John’s University in New York City, if he wanted to join the crew and become a blogger. Wisely, he suggested acting as a stealth blogger to see if he’d like it or not. As regular readers know, his “stealth” posts were … Continue reading Paul Kirgis, Now an Official Indisputably Contributor
The Supreme Court has dismissed Stok & Assocs. v. Citibank, a routine step triggered by the settlement of the case. Stok had raised the issue of whether a party waives its right to compel arbitration of a dispute by participating in related litigation, even where no prejudice to the party resisting arbitration can be shown. … Continue reading Stok Dismissed After Settlement
