This has been a dramatic week to say the least. Very few people expected the outcome of the presidential election. The country is starkly divided with one major candidate receiving more electoral votes while the other major candidate received more popular votes. Although the two candidates received a similar number of popular votes, the exit … Continue reading How Can We Build Common Ground Between Bubbles? – Part 1
I’m happy to post the call for proposals on this closely related topic to our own teaching. CALL FOR PRESENTATION PROPOSALS Institute for Law Teaching and Learning—Summer 2017 Conference Teaching Cultural Competency and Other Professional Skills Suggested by ABA Standard 302 July 7-8, 2017 University of Arkansas at Little Rock William H. Bowen School of … Continue reading Call for Presentation Proposals–Cultural Competency and Other Stuff We Teach!
This week I gave a talk by skype to EFOI Elayne Greenberg’s Dispute System Design Seminar through St. John’s Hon. Hugh L. Carey Center for Dispute Resolution. This year-long honors seminar is described as follows. “The 3L Carey Center Fellows in the seminar use a textbook, and explore real-life examples, that introduce the core elements … Continue reading Presentation at St. John’s DSD Seminar on Overcoming Barriers to Implementation of PEDR Systems
Last week Amy Schmitz (Missouri) sent out a message on this topic on the list serv and I asked if she could morph it into a blog post, which she has kindly done. On October 28, the Department of Education issued final regulations intended to protect student loan borrowers against school closures and fraud. To … Continue reading Schmitz on Student Loans, Arbitration, and Class Waivers
The law school formerly known as the South Texas School of Law changed its name over the summer to the Houston College of Law and was promptly sued by the University of Houston for trademark infringement. The University of Houston won a preliminary restraining order, and the Houston College of Law agreed to give up … Continue reading the School with no name, is now named; it’s a lot like the old name
In the category of “did we really need to litigate this all the way to an appellate court,” last Friday the Ninth Circuit vacated a FINRA arbitration award where the parties learned four years after the hearing that the Chairperson of the panel was impersonating a lawyer. In Move Inc. v. Citigroup Global Markets, Inc., … Continue reading Ninth Circuit Disapproves of Imposter Arbitrators
Jonathan Cohen (Florida) has published “A Genesis of Conflict: The Zero-Sum Mindset” in the Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution, available here. The abstract: Parties in conflict often operate under the assumption that for one party to win, the other party must lose. This concept, known as the “zero-sum mindset,” can lead to undesirable results, both … Continue reading Cohen on Genesis and Conflict
Tim Hedeen (Kennesaw State) has co-published (with Heather Pincock) “Where the Rubber Meets the Clouds: Anticipated Developments in Conflict and Conflict Resolution Theory” in the Ohio State Journal of Dispute Resolution. From the Introduction: The study of conflict transcends disciplinary boundaries and nearly defies categorization. Theories abound to explain the sources or conditions that give … Continue reading Hedeen on the Future of Conflict Theory
Kristen Blankley (Nebraska) recently published “The Ethics and Practice of Drafting Pre-Dispute Resolution Clauses” in the Creighton Law Review, available here. The abstract: The audience for the topic of dispute resolution usually consists of neutrals and litigation professionals. This Article, by contrast, is written for the transactional attorney. Transactional attorneys have an important role in … Continue reading Blankley on Pre-Dispute Resolution Clauses
As you may or may not know, the University of Houston School of Law sued the Houston College of Law, which changed its name from the South Texas School of Law over the summer, for trademark infringement. The Houston College of Law lost a TRO hearing on the matter, and has agreed to change it’s … Continue reading The Law School with No Name – for this week, at least
