On Friday, the Carey Center for Dispute Resolution at St. John’s will host a program titled Reaching Acc[h]ord: Resolving Disputes over Music Downloading. The program will bring together several of the protagonists in the recent dramas over music downloading, including BU student Joel Tenenbaum (hit with a $600,000 judgment for illegal downloading—later reduced to $60,000) … Continue reading Resolving Disputes Over Music Downloading
Almost two decades ago, in what feels like a different lifetime, I did some work with folks who were focusing on questions of how best to teach productive conflict management skills to school-age children. I confess that some shiny object or another distracted me from that inquiry, and I haven’t spent much time thinking about … Continue reading ADR and Bullying
On November 1, 2010, the Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution and the JAMS Foundation will sponsor a symposium: “Energy and the Environment: Preventing and Resolving Conflicts.” It will be at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York. The event is divided into three main topics: Alternatives to Fossil Fuels, Natural Gas Drilling … Continue reading Symposium on Energy and Environmental Conflict Resolution
The news came out today that David Moora was appointed Director of the ABA Dispute Resolution Section. David has been a staff attorney for the section since 2006 and has a great working knowledge of the Section. Congratulations David !! The announcement from Section President Wayne Thorpe is below. And, I second his shout out to Gina Brown. … Continue reading David Moora – Director of the ABA Dispute Resolution Section
The Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association will be in San Francisco on June 2-5, 2011. Proposals are due on December 8, 2010. The Law and Society meeting always includes an interesting assortment of dispute resolution papers and panels. It is also a great opportunity to meet scholars from a number of disciplines … Continue reading Law and Society Call for Participation
This posting is courtesy of Richard Reuben: Colleagues, I want to make you aware of an arbitration amicus opportunity in the 2nd Circuit that presents both Stolt-Nielsen and Hall Street issues. In brief, the arbitrator in this case, before Stolt-Nielsen, decided that an arbitration clause that does not expressly address class arbitration “did not prohibit” the … Continue reading Amicus Brief in Second Circuit
Many thanks to Michael Moffitt, Jane Gordon, and especially to Jen Reynolds for putting on a first-class ADR Works-in-Progress Conference this weekend. They were terrific hosts and the scholarly exchange was dynamic. I personally learned a great deal. I’m particularly grateful to Ran Kuttner for reading and commenting on my very rough draft of Leverage … Continue reading Kudos to Oregon for WIP Conference
For those of you ADR scholars out there interested in an academic position, here is the announcement: The University of Maryland School of Law seeks applicants for a faculty position in the field of Alternative Dispute Resolution. The faculty member must have a sincere interest in and commitment to clinical teaching. The faculty member: 1) … Continue reading University of Maryland Law Hiring ADR Prof
An informal organization of former members of Congress, from both sides of the political aisle, has released a call for “a civil and productive 112th Congress.” They embrace the ideas of both partisanship and bipartisanship, but reject the politics of division and vilification. Available at www.fmocforcommonground.org, the open letter from these former members of Congress … Continue reading Former Members of Congress for Common Ground
E.O. Wilson is a Harvard biologist, two-time Pulitzer Prize winning author, and the world’s leading authority on ants. As this article explains, he believes that human civilizations and ant civilizations have much in common. In some respects, that’s encouraging. Ant civilizations are communitarian in some very positive ways. For example, ants who have had enough … Continue reading On Ants, Humans, and the Challenge of Conflict Resolution
