James Surowiecki had an interesting piece in last week’s New Yorker describing the endowment effect and the status quo bias and applying them to the current health care debate. In looking at the endowment effect (when you own something you tend to overvalue it) Surowiecki states: “What [the endowment effect] suggests about health care is … Continue reading Can Bias Help President Obama in the Health Care Debate?
Earlier this week I criticized an article in the last month’s ABA Journal saying that there’s work to be had as an ADR neutral due to the economic downturn. You can see the post here. Since then a colleague brought an article that backs up my assertions about the difficulties of entering the profession and … Continue reading Where the Work Is – Cont’d
The International Ombudsman Association has announced its first student writing competition, inviting law students and other graduate students to submit articles arguing for a statutory privilege for organizational ombudsmen. More information can be found here. For a short preview, here’s the call of the question: For this article, assume that you are advising the legislature … Continue reading International Ombudsman Association Writing Competition
An article in the most recent ABA Journal entitled “Where the Work Is” (here) listed ADR as one of the subfields of law where there are likely to be jobs during the current economic downturn. The article states that legal services consumers are seeking to avoid litigation costs and concludes that has been a boon … Continue reading Where the Work Is
The AALS Placement Bulletin, which provides the hiring announcements for all the law schools across the country, is hot off the presses. Based on a quick review of the bulletin last night and requests I’ve received for names of candidates, the market for ADR law profs looks pretty good this year. If anyone knows of … Continue reading Which Law Schools are Looking to Hire ADR Profs ?
Andy Schepard of Hofstra Law School sent the following message to the ADR list-serv earlier this month. A pdf of the UCLA appears here. ——– Dear ADR colleagues: I hope everyone is having a wonderful summer. I am pleased to report that he Uniform Law Commission voted to adopt the Uniform Collaborative Law Act on … Continue reading Uniform Collaborative Law Act – Adoption and Upcoming Conference
As many readers of this blog already know, foreclosure mediation is booming across the country. Many states with judicial foreclosure procedures (as opposed to non-judicial foreclosure states) are requiring mediation before any hearings on the foreclosure process. Add Florida with its strong ADR practices to the list. The Florida Supreme Court’s residential-foreclosure task force is … Continue reading Mandatory Mediation in Florida Home Foreclosures
The Summer edition of Dispute Resolution Magazine runs an article by Diane Levin (a familiar name to those in the online ADR community because she is the brain behind adrblogs.com). Likening us to 18th century English coffehouses (where is my double-shot latte, by the way?), Diane thoughtfully describes the blog phenomenon in a way that … Continue reading ADR Blogging Makes an Appearance in Print
Geoff Sharp, whose Mediatorblahblah blog was one of the only things I read with regularity, announced a few days ago that he is bowing out. We as a field are poorer for his departure, but we should all be grateful to him for his thoughtful, self-confessedly “overly opinionated” contributions. With more than a thousands posts … Continue reading Geoff Sharp, Mediatorblahblah, “Bows Out” of blogging
Hofstra Law School will hold a conference on “Collaborative Law: Opportunities, Challenges and Questions for the Future” on November 19 and 20, 2009. The conference announcement states: “The conference will cover topics in Collaborative Law in the context of legal ethics and professional responsibility, mediation, arbitration and other ADR processes, access to justice and vulnerable … Continue reading Collaborative Law Conference and Call for Papers
