At the ABA SDR conference this year, Cynthia Alkon, Noam Ebner, Lydia Nussbaum and I did a session at the Legal Educators Colloquium entitled Preparing Students for the Future of Dispute Resolution: Skating to “Where the Puck Is Going, Not Where It’s Been.” The title of our session was based on a quote by hockey … Continue reading Where the “Puck” is Going – And What Faculty Should Do to Help Students Get There
Thanks to Kim Wright, at Cutting Edge Law, I learned about a wonderful TED talk that David Hoffman gave: Lawyers as Peacemakers. Really?!? Yes, Really. It describes his personal journey from a hippie seeking social justice to lawyer who sometimes litigated to full-time peacemaker practicing mediation and collaborative law (CL). It is an inspiring talk, … Continue reading Fabulous TED Talk by David Hoffman on Lawyers as Peacemakers
If you haven’t already received the RFP for the ABA DR Section’s Spring Conference via email (from the ABA itself or on the list serv from Erin Archerd), you can now access it here. The due date is August 3rd at 5pm ET. The conference will be in San Francisco on April 20-23, 2017. From … Continue reading RFP for the ABA DR Section’s Spring Conference
Yesterday the South Texas College of Law announced that it was renaming itself the Houston College of Law. According to the Chronicle of Higher Education: Board Chairman J. Ken Johnson said in a statement the name was changed in part to create a stronger association with the 93-year-old law school and the nation’s fourth-largest city. … Continue reading University of Houston Law Center v. Houston College of Law (formerly known as the South Texas College of Law))
Our friends at the Harvard Negotiation & Mediation Clinical Program are working with the White House and the Department of Education on an exciting initiative to help community college students become more effective negotiators. From the press release: Negotiation training can be critical in helping workers of any age secure a good job, salary and … Continue reading HNMCP at the White House
Reposting from DRLE: If you teach a simulation course, how do you satisfy the new “direct supervision” requirement under ABA Standard 304(a)? Quick background on this question: Two years ago, I sent an email to those of you on the DRLE listserv asking whether your law school would consider Negotiation and Mediation “simulation courses” under … Continue reading Thinking through ABA 304(a)
Every summer University of Chicago Law Prof Brian Leiter posts lists of the most cited scholars in various disciplines at his blog Brian Leiter’s Law School Reports. Today he posted his Most Cited Faculty in Law and Social Science Rankings which are based on the Gregory Sisk’s and colleagues’ scholarly productivity rankings of law school … Continue reading Leiter: Most Cited Law and Social Science Scholars (Plus)
It’s summer, which means time for camps! Here in the Pacific Northwest and elsewhere, survival camps are quite popular with kids and adults. Offerings run from the standard, such as archery and foraging, to the more exotic, such as “hiding in the woods” (my kids took that one) to “processing a goat” (my husband wants … Continue reading ADR as a Survival Skill
From this morning’s National Law Journal article (available here) reporting on the 9th circuit’s consideration of the appeal from a N.D.CA court’s finding that Uber’s arbitration clause was unenforceable for reasons of unconscionability: According to Uber, Chen’s rulings refused to follow the Ninth Circuit’s 2013 en banc decision in Kilgore v. KeyBank, which held that an … Continue reading 9th Circuit on Uber Arbitration
Hi everyone–as I’ve already posted, we are delighted to host the 10th Annual AALS Works-in-Progress conference at Marquette. The conference will start Thursday night, September 22nd and end after lunch on Saturday, September 24th. The webpage is located here. As many of the readers on this blog know, the AALS Works-in-Progress is a wonderful opportunity for dispute … Continue reading Works in Progress Registration is Open!!!
