If you are a regular reader of this blog, you may have noticed a new name listed in the contributors column on the left hand portion of the screen.  My name is Art Hinshaw and I’m a Clinical Professor of Law at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University where I act … Continue reading An Introduction . . . . →

In line with Michael’s previous post on jobs, let me also link to Emily Menn’s list of Jobs in Dispute Resolution.  Emily, who is one of Marquette’s grads in Dispute Resolution and now the Director of Education and Professional Development for the New York State DR Association, runs a listserve for those interested in either posting … Continue reading More ADR Jobs →

I haven’t seen a copy of this year’s AALS Recruitment Bulletin, so I’m not sure how many law schools have specifically advertised that they are hiring in ADR this season. The University of Oregon School of Law is looking to add a tenure-track ADR faculty member this year.  (The official ad appears at the end … Continue reading Hiring New ADR Faculty ? →

The International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution (CPR Institute) has announced its Corporate Leadership prize for 2008, and it’s going to Microsoft and Brad Smith, Microsoft’s General Counsel.  The press release mentions Microsoft’s highly visible encounter with ADR in the context of the US v Microsoft antitrust litigation. I don’t have enough familiarity with … Continue reading CPR Prize to Microsoft →

Of course, headline writers invariably overstate what the subsequent article actually says.  The NYT Business Section ran an article by this title last week, and the headline-to-content mismatch is no more egregious than is probably typical for such articles. The newspaper article describes a soon-to-be published empirical study of settlement behavior, the conclusion of which, … Continue reading The New York Times: “Study Finds Settling is Better than Going to Trial” →

The Respondents in the Pyett v. 14 Penn Plaza case, to be argued in the United States Supreme Court this fall, filed their brief this week. http://www.adrworld.com/si.asp?id=2498 Pyett’s argument is based primarily on a belief that Gardner-Denver, is still good law. According to respondents, “This Court’s holding in Alexander v. Gardner-Denver-Co., 415 U.S. 36 (1974), … Continue reading Pyett Files Brief in Supreme Court Arbitration Case →

Richard Shell has asked me to post this job opening at the Legal Studies department at Wharton. They remain very interested in hiring someone from the negotiation and DR community and have attracted law professors in the past. THE WHARTON SCHOOL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA FACULTY POSITION IN LAW The Legal Studies and Business … Continue reading Wharton Legal Studies Job →

UC-Irvine is in the process of creating the first new public law school in California in several decades, and the formation of its faculty had been, for some time, the subject of considerable gossip within the legal academy.  (If this doesn’t strike you as gossip-worthy, you obviously don’t spend your days inside the walls of … Continue reading UC-Irvine’s New Law Faculty →

Have you written a will? Do you have a list (and pictures) of insurable items in your home? Probably not if you are typical. We don’t like to think about negative future events and so we avoid planning for them. Of course, that doesn’t actually solve the problem. Last weekend, I served on a panel … Continue reading Anticipating the Worst →

Art Hinshaw at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University announced the dates set for the next round of Works-in-Progress conference. It will be the weekend of October 24th and 25th. As Art said, “Join us and present your recent scholarship or works in progress, get feedback from colleagues, and learn … Continue reading Works-in-Progress Conference 2008 →