A few weeks ago, Marquette Law School hosted the groundbreaking on a new law school building (in the slideshow, note the really cute picture of our DR program manager Natalie Fleury with her two kids!). I have been working with the architects as part of faculty committees and the technology committee to really think about … Continue reading Law School Building of the Future? →

We, at the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, are both proud and sad to announce today that a major leader in the ADR movement, our dean, Nancy Rogers, will serve as interim attorney general. She is still a member of our faculty, though, and has taken a leave from the university to serve … Continue reading Nancy Rogers, Dean at Moritz College of Law to be Ohio Interim Attorney General →

John Gradwohl of the University of Nebraska is conducting research about “peer” arbitrations — which he defines as “situations where the parties themselves want to have a system in which their participants make a binding determination of a dispute rather than bring in a third party decider.” He recently posted a request for information on … Continue reading “Peer” Arbitration – Request for Information →

Andrew Daughety and Jennifer Reinganum, two economists from Vanderbilt, recently posted an article on SSRN titled, simply, “Settlement.” I don’t know how it works in the economics literature.  In many areas of the law, insanely short article titles are typically reserved either for those who are unspeakably preeminent or who are the first to a … Continue reading What Economists Say to Each Other about Settlement →

I have a good way to avoid grading exams on dispute resolution and, instead, have fun playing with disputes. Let me explain: a few weeks ago at the ABA Section on Dispute Resolution meeting, I participated in a panel on the use of videogames and dispute resolution with Professor Jean Sternlight and Kathleen Goodrich. I … Continue reading Play the News →

Divided We Fall is the title of Nick Kristof’s op-ed piece in the New York Times this past Thursday using the political debates as a lovely example of how we all like to view the world from our own little belltower. For those of us who have taught ladder of inference, partisan perceptions, and the … Continue reading Divided We Fall →

Interesting and informative post on Pyett v. 14 Penn Plaza from Rick Bales at Workplace Prof Blog. Rick and I participated on a panel on recently decided and to be decided Supreme Court cases at the ABA Section on Dispute Resolution Conference during the first week of April. His post can be found at http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/laborprof_blog/2008/04/pyett-and-arbit.html … Continue reading Rick Bales on Pyett; Commentary by Cole →

As the Chair-Elect of the Alternative Dispute Resolution Section of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS), I’m responsible for organizing the Section’s workshop for its annual meeting in January, 2009. I’ve had the good fortune to work with a wonderful group of colleagues (including my fellow bloggers) on this project. We’ve decided on a … Continue reading Dispute Resolution in the Year 2050 (Or Maybe Just 2025) →

Although I am not a big believer in the US News ranking system, today, US News released the Dispute Resolution Program rankings, along with their overall law school rankings. You can find the dispute resolution rankings here: http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/grad/law/dispute. The rankings are as follows: 1. Pepperdine 2. Harvard, University of Missouri-Columbia 4. Hamline 5. Ohio State … Continue reading US News Ranks Law School Dispute Resolution Programs →