Profs. Doug Frenkel’s (UPenn) and Jim Stark’s (UConn) recent article Changing Minds: The Work of Mediators and Empirical Studies of Persuasion, 28 Ohio State J. Dispute Resol. 263-352 (2013), has been selected as the outstanding scholarly article of 2013 by the International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution (CPR).  CPR, an organization of executives and counsel from the … Continue reading Profs. Frenkel and Stark Win CPR Outstanding Scholarly Article Award →

I am very pleased to share that my colleague and co-author Nancy Hardin Rogers was honored with the prestigious James F. Henry Award from the International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution (CPR). As many of you know, the institute is an independent nonprofit organization comprised of global corporations, law firms, scholars, and public institutions … Continue reading Moritz College of Law Professor Nancy H. Rogers wins CPR’s James F. Henry Award for Distinguished Contribution to Dispute Resolution →

  I spent two days at the end of last week attending a conference at the Regent University School of Law on Promoting the Rule of Law in East Africa.  The conference was well organized and included an impressive list of thoughtful and thought provoking speakers (see here ).  The conference included a number of … Continue reading When children are being sacrificed, why is love a crime? →

I have a Dropbox account and use it to store a lot of my cloud-based documents. Dropbox emailed its users late last week, announcing changes to its Terms of Service, including the addition of an arbitration clause.  Notably, the clause included submission of disputes to the AAA for arbitration, a right to opt out within 30 … Continue reading Dropbox adds Arbitration Clause to its Terms of Service →

I’m not sure I’m surprised by the contents. Depends on how optimistic I was feeling before I read the draft.  Available at bit.ly/1ma8X3S TOTH: John Steele (@JohnSteele2225) via Twitter    

Colleagues — the University of Oregon School of Law is seeking a Program Director for our nationally ranked ADR Center. The position description is here. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you would like any additional information. And please forward to anyone you think might be interested. Thank you!

Have you been a law prof for less than 10 years?  Got a paper you’d like to have workshopped?  Want to enjoy some great Phoenix weather and catch a spring training ball game?  If you can answer three of those four questions in the affirmative, join in the fun at the 5th annual ASU Legal … Continue reading ASU Legal Scholars Conference – March 14 and 15, 2014 →

Sheila Purcell (Hastings) provides this synopsis of the Northern California ADR Faculty Conference which Hastings hosted on February 1st.  Sounds like it was a fantastic event. On February 1, 2014  the UC Hastings Center for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution and the Gould Center at Stanford Law School co-hosted the Northern California ADR Conference.  Faculty and … Continue reading Highlights of the Northern California ADR Faculty Conference →

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