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?
If you’re not a regular reader of Prawfsblog, you’ve missed out on some excellent guest blogging by Michael Helfland (Pepperdine). Helfland’s primary interest areas are arbitration and the intersection between law and religion and, not surprisigly, his Prawfs posts of interests focus on those two themes. In the first post he uses a case out Florida involving the Church of … Continue reading Helfland on Religion and Arbitration
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
Stacie Strong from Missouri is in the Netherlands this semester and is organizaing a conference on collective redresss of cross-border claims. She sent out a call for papers on the topc recently the ADR list serv, and I’m posting it here in case you missed it. If you’re interested in going to the Netherlands this summer, this is … Continue reading Call for Proposals – Collective Redress in the Cross-Border Context
If you’ve been paying attention today’s news, you’ve probably heard that the owners of the New York Mets baseball team and Irving Pickard, the trustee for the Madoff vicitms, settled the Trustee’s claim for $1billion in damages for a reported $162million. This article in the NYTimes gives some interesting information about the case generally and … Continue reading What do the Mets, Bernie Madoff, and Mario Cuomo have in Common?
As the annual ABA DR Section Conference quickly approaches, I want to encourage everyone to attend the Legal Educators’ Colloquium on Saturday April 21st. The LEC always promises great programming and this year’s schedule is fantastic. And I don’t say that simply because 6 of the 8 contributors to this blog will be presenting. More … Continue reading ABA DR Section Conference – Legal Educators’ Colloquium
Love ’em or hate ’em, the US News rankings are out. As is well documented, the overall rankings are subject to lots of criticism, and rightfully so. The specialty rankings are purely peer assessment rankings, which makes them more legit, although I’m sure we can quibble about them too if we want to. That said, … Continue reading US News ADR Rankings
As expected, the NLRB’s decision in D.A. Horton limiting arbitral class waivers in employment agreements has been appealed to the Fifth Circuit. As I suggested in this post, the case pits the Supreme Court’s interpretation of the FAA against the NLRB’s interpretation of “concerted action” in the labor laws, raising questions about Supreme Court deference … Continue reading NLRB Decision Limiting Class Waivers Appealed
