As I previously posted, the 9th Annual AALS Alternative Dispute Resolution Section’s Works-in-Progress Conference will be on October 23 & 34, 2015, at the Texas A&M University School of Law in Fort Worth, Texas. The deadline to register for the conference is Friday, Oct. 2nd which is at the end of this week! The link … Continue reading Deadline Fast Approaching!
Tis the season of the US News tournament, when our mailboxes fill with literature touting the achievements of law schools far and wide. Most of us think that this “game” is seriously flawed and wish our schools didn’t have play the game, but we generally feel compelled to do so because of the significant consequences. … Continue reading Missouri Scholarship Booklet
Here’s an announcement from my colleague, Carli Conklin. Greetings, colleagues! The Center for the Study of Dispute Resolution and the University of Missouri School of Law are hosting a Works-in-Progress Conference on the History of Dispute Resolution, to accompany our November 13, 2015 symposium on arbitration history. We’d love to have you take part! For … Continue reading Call for Proposals: Works-in-Progress Conference on History of Dispute Resolution
In light of the ongoing debate about the fairness of investor state arbitration (see my earlier blog post here), the European Commission has now proposed a new investor state court to replace the arbitrations under ICSID and UNCITRAL. (See the whole article here.) The court would operate apparently like the WTO with both a lower court … Continue reading Investor State Trade Court?
Money can’t buy me love. – Paul McCartney As a corollary to psychologist McCartney’s insight, money can’t buy lawyers (much) happiness. That’s one of the key findings of Lawrence Krieger and Kennon Sheldon’s impressive study, What Makes Lawyers Happy?: A Data-Driven Prescription to Redefine Professional Success. This post includes excerpts from this article, sans … Continue reading What Makes Lawyers Happy? – And How Can You Help?
An article in the New York Times, The Rationality of Rage, summarizes the findings of several studies about when expressing anger can be productive. Despite the catchy title of the article, expressing rage generally isn’t helpful. But expressing anger can be useful in some situations. The article distinguishes three types of negotiations – primarily cooperative … Continue reading Good Anger
My colleague S.I. Strong posted the following announcement: The application process for the US Supreme Court Fellowship is open until Friday, November 6, 2015. The Fellows program is open to both junior and mid-career applicants. An article describing the daily duties of a US Supreme Court Fellow and the application process was recently published in … Continue reading US Supreme Court Fellowship Application Deadline – Nov. 6
Last week’s New York Times had a great article illustrating the reality of how people use data to walk up the ladder of inference to make their argument. In an article about the Iran deal, the writers explained how both Dick Cheney and Hilary Clinton were using different parts of the story–different data–to reach their desired conclusion. To hear Dick … Continue reading The Ladder of Inference Applied to Iran
Professor Deborah Eisenberg, the Director of the Center for Dispute Resolution at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, has two new pieces: The first is about using restorative practices at the organizational/employer level for employment discrimination: “The Restorative Workplace: An Organizational Learning Approach to Discrimination.” The link is: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2654196. The second … Continue reading Two new articles
Yesterday the NY Times published an editorial recommending the use of restorative justice as one approach to handling sexual assault and other types of misconduct at universities. See the editorial here. I think there can be great advantages to using restorative justice processes in a variety of settings. My concern is that we have seen … Continue reading Restorative Justice to Handle Sexual Assault Cases at Universities?
