If you’re on the ADR prof listserv, you’ve seen some congratulatory remarks about the CPR Awards, which were announced yesterday. If you’re not familiar with the awards, the press release announcing them describes the awards as follows: The CPR Institute’s Annual Awards program honors outstanding scholarship and practical achievement in the field of alternative dispute … Continue reading 2024 CPR Award Winners Announced
The powerhouse team of Carrie Menkel-Meadow (UCIrvine) and Andrea Kupfer Schneider (Cardozo) have just published a new book, International Conflict Resolution Processes (Carolina Press 2025). The book will have a teachers’ manual and was developed based on their learning and experiences teaching in 25 countries. Nice cover and blurb below. Congrats ! The book explores … Continue reading International Conflict Resolution Processes – Menkel-Meadow and Schneider
Hi everyone. I am doing a research study entitled “Conceptions of Facilitative and Evaluative Mediation,” and I would REALLY APPRECIATE it if you would take about five minutes to respond to the short survey below. Informed Consent Disclosure You are not required to answer any of the questions if you don’t want to. Your participation … Continue reading Please Complete This Short Survey By Friday, February 14
I am pleased to share this announcement of a new writing competition co-sponsored by the North America Committee of the Campaign for Greener Arbitrations (CGA-NA) and the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University. We are seeking papers from anyone interested in the intersection of arbitration and environmental law, and papers should make a … Continue reading Call for Submissions – Writing Competition – Arbitration +Environmental Law
“The mediation failed.” This statement implies that reaching agreement is the only measure of success. It also implies that the mediation process failed, not that the parties made a legitimate decision not to settle during a mediation session. When you hear someone say that, does smoke come out of your ears? Do you get hot … Continue reading How You Can Speak Dispute Resolution Well
… I found this image on social media earlier today. And I think it can fairly substitute for pretty much an entire lecture I was going to give in a couple weeks. I will likely lecture a bit, anyway. But my students, having seen this image, will quite reasonably not listen carefully. MM
I was reminded earlier in the week that our email from Hein (SmartCilp) runs significantly behind actual publication when I saw that the Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution symposium issue on the Multidoor Criminal Courthouse had just come out on the index. Yet, if you follow us on LinkedIn, you’ll note that the journal is … Continue reading Latest Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution issues
On October 30, 2024, Debra Berman posted a message on the DRLE listserv encouraging colleagues to drop the word “alternative” from “ADR.” Her post quickly prompted 24 responses. As usual, people were respectful, appreciative, collaborative, and funny even as they expressed differing views. This was one of our best discussions, and I wish we had … Continue reading Choosing to Use Good Language in the “ADR” Field
Last week, University of the Pacific’s McGeorge School of Law named Michael T. Colatrella Jr. as its new dean effective July 1. Many of us know Michael, who hosted the AALS WIP conference last fall. He is the inaugural Tracy A. Eglet Chair in Alternative Dispute Resolution. He joined McGeorge in 2009 as an assistant … Continue reading Michael Colatrella Named Dean of McGeorge School of Law
You all know about the LA fires that have wreaked unprecedented destruction and devastation in the region. Everyone in LA has been affected somehow. Many have lost their homes, schools, and communities. Those of us who don’t fall into this category know and love people who do. Others of us are trapped in a living … Continue reading What can Los Angeles Learn from Seventeenth Century London?
