Over the weekend Bob Bordone at Harvard sent out an email announcing that its Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program is accepting applications for a new Clinical Fellow and Lecturer on Law position.  The fellowship is a two year commitment beginning on July 1, 2010.  A job description as well as instructions for applying for the … Continue reading Clinical Fellow and Lecturer on Law – Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program →

I’ve been discussing ADR in bankruptcy, but I wanted to take a detour to mention the Securities Dispute Resolution Triathlon we’re holding at St. John’s this weekend.  Our Hugh Carey Center for Dispute Resolution is working in conjunction with FINRA to host the competition.  We’re pretty sure it’s the first competition to include negotiation, mediation, … Continue reading Securities Dispute Resolution Triathlon →

Last night Jon Stewart did a piece on the Daily Show about the Franken Amendment to the Job Arbitration Bill (reported by Sarah Cole on this blog on Oct. 9). It doesn’t show a strong understanding of arbitration…but it is funny. See http://www.thedailyshow.com/ (under “coming up” and “Rape Nuts”).

At the ADR Meets Bankruptcy conference at St. John’s, I sat on a panel with Steve Ware and Marianne Culhane that addressed the enforcement of pre-petition arbitration agreements in bankruptcy.  The panel was moderated by Alan Resnick, who had written on the topic a couple of years ago. Several interesting points came out of the … Continue reading ADR Meets Bankruptcy, Part 3 – Enforcing Arbitration Agreements →

Two recent announcements: Cases and Materials on Arbitration Law and Practice, Fifth Edition  (West) Thomas E. Carbonneau, Penn State ISBN 978-0-31491-142-1 Stone and Bales’ Arbitration Law, 2nd Edition (West) Katherine V.W. Stone; Richard A. Bales ISBN-13:    9781599416465 I’ve not yet given them a look, but given the recent developments in this area of the law, … Continue reading New Arbitration Books (or at least new editions of existing books) →

The RFP to host the AALS DR Section’s WIP Confernce in the fall of 2010 recently came out, and it appears in it’s entirety below.  Just an fyi, this year’s conference (at Harvard Nov. 13th and 14th) is shaping up quite nicely and we’ll have more information about it here shortly. * * * * * * * … Continue reading Request for Proposals – Hosting the AALS Alternative Dispute Resolution Works-in-Progress Conference →

In a nice shout-out for us, this blog was listed as one of the top 100 professor blogs by onlinecollege.  As they write, “Online students have a lot to learn online, and you can find great knowledge from professors’ blogs. Whether they’re about science or political science, you’ll find something interesting on each of these blogs. Read … Continue reading Top 100 Professor Blogs →

The University of Maryland School of Law will hold a symposium on November 6, 2009:   Problem Solving Courts: A Conversation with the Experts. The conference announcement states: Please join us for a conversation with a diverse array of Maryland practitioners and national experts about past, present and future role of problem solving courts in our judicial system. … Continue reading Problem Solving Courts Symposium in Maryland →

Not long ago, a federal court in Oregon gratned summary judgment for the defendants in a legal malpractice claim.  The case highlights the stakes involved in expansive mediation privileges.  Or put differently, the case highlights the tradeoffs of having limited exceptions to a mediation privilege.  For anyone looking for a good set of modern facts … Continue reading Mediation Confidentiality & Attorney Malpractice →

FINRA Dispute Resolution announced earlier this week that it is expanding the pilot program it launched in 2008 to provide investors with more choice in selecting arbitrators for customer cases heard by FINRA arbitrators.  Rather than being forced to select at least one industry arbitrator on all three-arbitrator panels, FINRA gave investors the right, in essence, to strike … Continue reading FINRA Expands Its Public Arbitrator Pilot Program →