The Fordham Law Dispute Resolution Society is holding its Sixth Annual Alternative Dispute Resolution Symposium entitled: Judicial Review of ADR Processes: What Makes Sense? It will be on November 4, 2011 at Fordham Law School in New York. The keynote speaker will be Professor Nancy Welsh from Pennsylvania State University, Dickinson School of Law. The … Continue reading Fordham ADR Symposium
This year’s AALS ADR Section Works-in-Progress Conference will be taking place two weeks from today at Creighton Law School. The folks at the Werner Institute have put together a wonderful program that promises to please. The conference web site is here, the abstracts of the papers to be presented are here (btw – that’s a great … Continue reading 5th Annual AALS ADR Section WIP Conference, Nov. 4th and 5th
So I have been working on a book chapter stemming from the Beijing conference on Rethinking Negotiation last May concerning differences in negotiation behavior that we observed between Chinese law students and U.S. law students. I’m not ready to post on the chapter yet (!), but I did recently come across two different quotes and … Continue reading Lincoln v. Confucius: Shedding Light on Cross-Cultural Ethics?
From the Chair of the Section of Dispute Resolution, Debbie Masucci: Please join us in celebrating ABA Mediation Week October 16-22. “Civility and Civil Public Discourse” is the theme. This year Mediation Week is truly a global event. Through the efforts of our Mediation Committee over 25 events will be held. The Mediation Committee also … Continue reading ABA Mediation Week
From Deborah Masucci, Chair of the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution: Cyberweek, hosted by the Werner Institute at Creighton University via www.adrhub.com, is an innovative, virtual conference to discuss various facets of the world of Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) processes. Participation in this conference, as always, is free and is facilitated via discussion forums, webinars, … Continue reading Cyberweek Ethical Dilemma Essay Contest
Today is Mediation Settlement Day. This annual event is sponsored by FINRA Dispute Resolution, the New York State Unified Court System and a coalition of over 100 alternative dispute resolution programs, bar associations, community based programs, schools, public and non-profit organizations concentrated in the New York City area, and extending beyond to upstate New York, … Continue reading Happy Mediation Settlement Day!
Last week, we had wonderful talk entitled Blowing the Whistle on Whistleblowing Laws. Attorney Charles L. (Chuck) Howard is one of the few attorneys in the U.S. with extensive expertise in the legal issues of ombudsmen. Howard has a national practice in representing organizational ombudsmen at universities, multinational corporations, and research institutions. His new book, entitled The Organizational … Continue reading Ombuds Perspective on Whistleblowing Laws
Bob Mnookin (Harvard) published this op-ed in this past Monday’s Wall Street Journal. The opening: It’s hard to think straight when negotiating with an adversary you claim is evil, and Israel proved it last week. The usual problem is a refusal to negotiate at all. Here the Israelis made what seems to be a crazy … Continue reading Mnookin on Israel’s Deals with the Devil
A column in today’s L.A. Times mentions last week’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on the proposed Arbitration Fairness Act (S. 987), and voices generally the consumer’s views against mandatory arbitration. The consumer columnist, David Lazarus, notes that the bill’s chance of emerging from the Republican-controlled House are “slim to none at the moment.”
The Hugh Carey Center for Dispute Resolution at St. John’s hosted the third annual Securities Dispute Resolution Triathlon in Manhattan this weekend. Twenty-four student teams from law schools around the country participated in the competition, which requires them to negotiate, then mediate, then arbitrate a realistic securities dispute. FINRA neutrals serve as mediators, arbitrators, and … Continue reading Congratulations Dispute Resolution Triathlon Winners
