Here they are, and congrats to all. Best Law Schools Specialty Rankings: Dispute Resolution Ranked in 2010  1. Pepperdine 2. Hamline / Missouri (tie) 4. Harvard 5. Ohio State 6. Marquette 7. Oregon 8. Fordham / Cardozo (tie) 10. UNLV 11. Penn State 12. Northwestern / UC Hastings (tie) 14. Columbia  15. Arizona State / … Continue reading US News dispute resolution rankings in their entirety →

Following up on an interesting session on “Teaching the ADR Survey Class” at the ABA meeting last weekend in San Francisco, I wanted to post a couple links for people more interested in using videotapes and other interactive media in teaching their class.  First, courtesy of Vivian Hilder at Manitoba, I link here to a … Continue reading Videos and Other Ideas for the ADR Survey Class →

While the subject of cilantro has virtually no connection to alternative dispute resolution, I am thrilled that the New York Times has recognized (here) that it is not my fault that cilantro tastes like hazardous waste to me.  I have spent many a meal arguing (ahh, there is the ADR connection) with fellow diners about my … Continue reading The Great Cilantro Debate →

Love them or hate them, the always controversial US News rankings have surfaced (top 50, next 50).   As always, we at Indisputably are interested in the specialty rankings because they rank dispute resolution programs among others.  The purported top 10 are below, which include a big jump from 4 to 2 for Hamline.  Once I have a complete list, I’ll … Continue reading US News Rankings . . . . →

One of the many interesting events that I attended in San Francisco at the ABA Dispute Resolution Conference was a session during the Annual Symposium on Dispute Resolution and the Courts devoted to the “Latest Innovations in ADR Programs for Self-Represented Litigants.”  This session talked about a number of approaches to educate self-represented litigants in … Continue reading Educating self-represented litigants →

I am writing from the Spring Conference of the ABA Section on Dispute Resolution in sunny and pleasant San Francisco, CA.  Highlights for me so far have included helping organize, judge and watch the ABA Representation in Mediation Competition, won by the University of Maryland School of Law (students Jeffrey Lillien and David Pantzer, coached by Toby Guerin).  Following … Continue reading Greetings from San Francisco… →

The folks at the Werner Institute have launched adrhub.com, a portal focused on ADR.  I’ve spent a little time there, and I plan to check back often in the next few weeks to see how it develops.  Some of the materials and information it looks like they’re planning to make available would be great contributions. … Continue reading ADR portal “ADRhub” launched →

Geoff Sharp, a mediator from New Zealand, is the mind behind Mediator blah…blah.  I still have that blog site bookmarked, even though Geoff shut it down a long time ago.  It was one of the best, smartest, most insightful mediation sites around, in my opinion.  I miss it.  If you didn’t catch it the first … Continue reading Geoff Sharp is back in the ADR blogosphere →

Just a short note that most of the contributors to this blog will be in San Francisco for the ABA Dispute Resolution Conference the rest of the week.  Our blog may be a little slow this week, but once we get back many of us will comment on the various sessions that we think were interesting.  … Continue reading See you in San Francisco →

John Lande, one of the panelists on the first shoptalk session during the Legal Educators’ Colloquium, sent this preview via the AALS ADR Section list-serv this morning.  I post it here for those ADR Prawfs who have yet to sign up for the list-serv.   Michael Moffitt, Jean Sternlight, Nancy Welsh and I want to give a preview of … Continue reading Talkin’ Shop at the ABA DR Section Conference →