At the recent ABA DR Annual Meeting, we had our second installment of the “What I’m Reading” panel. I promised a reading list from panelists and participants; here it is: Americanah (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie) Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work (Matthew B. Crawford) Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred … Continue reading Booklist from the ABA DR Annual Meeting →

The Transnational Dispute Management Journal has issued a Call for Papers for its upcoming special issue on “Dispute Resolution from a Corporate Perspective.” Proposals due no later than July 31, 2014. Details here.

Cynthia Alkon (Texas A&M) has published “The U.S. Supreme Court’s Failure To Fix Plea Bargaining: The Impact of Lafler and Frye” in the Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly, available on SSRN here. The abstract: Virtually every criminal conviction in the United States is the result of a guilty plea, not a jury trial. Yet it was … Continue reading Alkon on the Supreme Court and Plea Bargaining →

The New York Times reported yesterday on a new trend among companies selling food products — the use of arbitration clauses. General Mills reportedly created an arbitration clause that would bind consumers who engaged in certain kinds of activity on their website, including downloading coupons or liking their products on Facebook. While such clauses may … Continue reading Should I Keep Eating Cheerios? Food Companies Using Arbitration →

  That is the title of an op-ed in yesterday’s New York Times written by Carrie Menkel-Meadow and Edwin Chemerinsky.  The op-ed cautions against rushing to fix legal education in ways that may do “more harm than good.”  The full op-ed can be read here .

David White (Seton Hall) was recently named Clinical Professor of the Year at Seton Hall (announcement here) and also accepted a civilian appointment to NYPD Police Commissioner Bill Bratton’s “Reengineering 2014” team.  The group will critically examine many facets of the NYPD’s day-to-day operations and offer recommendations for process re-design. Bravo David! MM

Have your students ever played an April Fool’s Day prank on you?  I’ve been lucky, but Stephen Barrows at Aquinas College, is not so lucky.  His students pulled one for the ages on him based on his class cell phone policy – if the phone rings you have to answer it on speaker phone.  This … Continue reading An Awesome April Fool’s Prank →