Sean Nolon from Vermont Law School asked me to post the following RFP for the 3rd Annual Colloquium on Environmental Law.  From his email sent out to the ADR listserv: For those of you who are working on scholarship in the area of environmental dispute resolution, let me direct your attention to an upcoming event at Vermont … Continue reading THIRD ANNUAL COLLOQUIUM ON ENVIRONMENTAL SCHOLARSHIP →

As promised, here are more details about the upcoming Works-in-Progress Conference. If you attend the ABA Section on Dispute Resolution Conference next week, please stop by the Ohio State University Journal of Dispute Resolution to speak with our Symposium Editors about the conference. The Association of American Law Schools’ Section on Dispute Resolution’s Sixth Annual … Continue reading 2012 Works-in-Progress Conference at Ohio State — More Information! →

Indisputably contibutor Sarah Cole just sent out a message about the 2012 AALS ADR Section’s Works-in-Progress Conference, which was recently awarded to Ohio State.  The message, or should I say teaser, is below.  Save the date and we look forward to hearing more from her about the conference at the ABA DR Section meetings in DC next week.  See you … Continue reading Ohio State to Host 2012 AALS Works-in-Progress Conference →

With the occasional exception of Justice Kennedy, the Supreme Court’s Republican-appointed Justices are not conservative in any principled sense. They are radicals, willing to cast aside established doctrines and forge new ones in the service of various policy objectives. This tendency is particularly evident in the Court’s constitutional jurisprudence, where from hand guns to campaign … Continue reading Arbitration and the “Conservative” Court →

Before I joined academia, I brought my dog to work with me, and learned through first-hand experience how he lowered stress levels and made the work day more pleasant. For the results of a study finding dogs decrease stress at work and increase productivity see: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/03/30/scientific-study-recommends-bringing-dogs-to-the-workplace/ Dogs have also been brought into law schools to … Continue reading Should Mediation go to the Dogs? →

The 2012 Schwartz Lecture on Dispute Resolution will be given by Deborah M. Kolb, an internationally renowned expert on gender issues in negotiation and leadership. On April 4th at noon in the Moritz College of Law’s Saxbe Auditorium, she will speak on “Negotiating in the Shadow of Organizations: Doing Well by Doing Good.” Recent research … Continue reading Professor Deborah Kolb is Ohio State University Moritz College of Law’s Schwartz Lecturer on April 4th →

Courtesy of Tim Hedeen, we have a suggested new mediator orientation posted on the Georgia ADR Blog.  This mediator, shall we say, is a little more domineering.  I would take this suggestion with a bit of advance April Fool’s Day humor but I am sure that Tim would be happy to explain it in person next … Continue reading Mediatrix? →

In 5-4 decisions, the U.S. Supreme Court today decided there is a right to effective assistance of counseling in plea bargaining in the cases of Lafler v. Cooper and Missouri v. Frye. In Lafler, the defendant rejected the plea offer due to bad advice by his lawyer, who told the defendant that he could not … Continue reading Yes, there is a right to effective assistance of counsel in plea bargaining →