As many of our readers know, the Legal Education, ADR and Practical Problem-Solving Project (LEAPS) of the ABA Section on Dispute Resolution Law Schools Committee was launched in 2010 to promote the teaching of practical problem-solving in law school so as to improve legal education. I am on the Executive Committee, along with Deborah Eisenberg, … Continue reading Update on LEAPS
Rishi Batra, currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at Whittier Law, and soon to be an Assistant Professor at Texas Tech Unveristy School of Law (congratulations Rishi!), has a new article that is being published by the Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution: Lafler and Fry: A New Constitutional Standard For Negotiation, available here . The abstract is: … Continue reading New article on Negotiation and Plea Bargaining
So without the amazing Professor Hinshaw along on my Israel trip this past week, there was no live blogging. Now that I am back, having survived traveling with 32 law students to Israel last week (just in time to lay the groundwork for the President’s visit this week!), I plan on blogging about the trip … Continue reading Not-Quite-Live Israel Blog 2013–Conflict Sells
At the 2012 AALS meetings Ron Aronovsky (Southwestern) organized the ADR Section’s program entitled The Supreme Court and the Future of Arbitration. Here’s a short blurb describing the program. Over the past twenty five years, the range of disputes subject to binding arbitration – particularly as a result of pre-dispute arbitration agreements — has grown … Continue reading The Supreme Court and the Future of Arbitration
Today, the Columbia Law School Blue Sky Law Blog published a blog posting that I co-authored with Prof. Barbara Black (Cincinatti) with that question as the title. Click here to read our answer.
As regular readers of this blog will know, our friends Lisa Bingham and Terry Amsler were in a serious accident in London resulting in their hospitalization. Naturally the people at the Indiana University have the most up to date information on their respective conditions, and here’s the latest from Dean David Reingold of Indiana’s School of Public and Environmental Affairs: As we return from … Continue reading Lisa Bingham and Terry Amsler Update
Speaking of the WIP, Cynthia Alkon (Texas Wesleyan) has published a paper she presented at the Oregon WIP in 2013, The Flawed U.S. Approach to Rule of Law Development in the Penn State Law Review. The abstract: The key flaw to the United States’ approach to rule of law development is routinely including the “standard … Continue reading Alkon on the Flawed U.S. Approach to Rule of Law Development
Update: November 7-9 are the dates for this year’s AALS ADR Section Works-in-Progress Conference, hosted by Cardozo Law. Check out the flyer for details.
Love ‘em or hate ‘em, the USNews rankings came out today. Here’s the rankings of law school dispute resolution programs. Pepperdine Harvard Missouri Hamline Ohio State Yeshiva (Cardozo) Oregon Marquette UC Hastings Willamette UNLV 14 schools were ranked, and once I get past the paywall, I’ll update this post w/ the remaining 3 schools. Congratulations … Continue reading US News Law School Dispute Resolution Program Rankings (updated)
The New York Times reported here yesterday that the judge in the Martha Stewart-JC Penny-Macy’s contract dispute ordered the parties into mediation. This is after three weeks of testimony in a bench trial that consolidated two law suits. According to the NY Times this will be the first mediation in this case. Apparently, previously, JC Penny … Continue reading Martha Stewart Ordered into Mediation
