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
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
