Very sad news today, from my perspective. ADRWorld will no longer be publishing its very useful subscription service. Announcement here: It is with regret that we announce that effective September 1, 2009, ADRWorld.com will be discontinued. Letters containing important refund information are now being sent to subscribers; please watch for this notification with the red … Continue reading ADRWorld Discontinued
A group of Holocaust survivors and Bank Leumi have agreed to arbitrate their four-year old dispute regarding the bank’s holding of funds deposited by its Jewish clients before World War II. See article here.
From Ken Cloke: The Copenhagen Climate Change Conference: What You Can Do In December 2009, delegates from around the world will meet in Copenhagen, Denmark for the 15th Conference of the Parties (COP 15) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Copenhagen will provide a critical opportunity for the world’s nations to … Continue reading Copenhangen Climate Change Conference Needs ADR Input
Many of us who attended the ABA Dispute Resolution Conference in New York this past April were lucky enough to see an excellent movie about women and the peace movement in Liberia: Pray the Devil Back to Hell (http://www.praythedevilbacktohell.com/v3/). This past week the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) released its report. The recommendation getting … Continue reading Facing the past in Liberia
Professor Susan Franck at Washington and Lee has an interesting new paper about investment treaty arbitration that just hit SSRN. The paper disputes assertions of certain governments (like Bolivia and Ecuador) that suggest the investment treaty process is unfairly tilted against the developing world. In addition it makes a case for using ADR and Dispute … Continue reading Development and Outcomes of Investment Treaty Arbitration
At our International Media & Conflict Conference in March, Professor Lisa Laplante discussed the use of blogs in tracking transitional justice efforts and, in particular, her blog on the Fujimori trial in Peru. The blog is a unique bilingual effort to keep the world apprised of this trial. Yesterday, the Peruvian court announced their guilty verdict–the … Continue reading Fujimori, Blogs, and Transitional Justice
Last weekend, we hosted a truly special gathering of scholars and practitioners in the area of media, journalism, international relations, communications, psychology, law and dispute resolution. I will be blogging a few more times about the conference, abstracts, and upcoming Marquette Law Review on the symposium but wanted, for now, to post a couple responses … Continue reading International Media & Conflict Resolution Conference
Earlier this month, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Sudan’s president, Omar Hassan al-Bashir, for crimes against humanity and war crimes connected with Darfur. The warrant raises again the timeless question of peace versus justice. (See articles by Marquette visiting professor Lisa Laplante on outlawing amnesty and me on balancing … Continue reading Using Indictment as a Negotiation Tactic
I am delighted to post here a guest blog from Carrie Menkel-Meadow: On the eve of the Israeli bombing of Hamas sites in Gaza, I returned from the most recent of two trips to Israel and the West Bank. My mission, as a conflict resolution expert, practitioner and teacher, is to facilitate learning about conflict. My work … Continue reading When Will They Every Learn? by Carrie Menkel-Meadow
I attended a conference at NYU two weeks ago as part of NYU’s Journal of International Law & Politics symposium on the “Normalization of Adjudication in Complex International Governance Regimes.” Invited to bring a little dispute resolution to this otherwise complete adjudicatory focus, it was very interesting to think about what the “normalization” of international courts and … Continue reading Dispute Resolution and the Normalization of International Adjudication
