If you have the chance to attend this year’s WIP conference at Harvard, I suggest that you do for a number of reasons. Of course, the primary reason is that the presentations look strong (list is below) and the presenters would love to hear your thoughts on their works. Also, believe it or not, this … Continue reading AALS ADR Section Works-in-Progress Conference – Harvard Law School Nov. 13th and 14th
The Ohio Supreme Court earlier this fall came out with an opinion in Hodesh v. Korelitz, 123 Ohio St.3d 72 (2009). For anyone wanting a springboard for teaching the basic differences between High-Low Agreements and Mary Carter Agreements, I think it’s a good case. It does not include every piece of detail one might reasonably … Continue reading Distinguishing Hi-Lo Agreements from Mary Carter Agreements
Yesterday the House Financial Services Committee voted to recommend that the full House vote on the Investor Protection Act of 2009, H.R. 3817. While the focus of the bill is to protect investors through enhanced regulations in the securities industry, one provision threatens to eliminate the mandatory arbitration of customer-broker disputes. Section 201 of the bill … Continue reading Investor Protection Act and Securities Arbitration
Following up to yesterday’s post on gender in different countries around the world, a student sent me a great article about how women in Mexico are dealing with the problem of their gendered context in which male cab drivers generally leer at and make comments about the women in their taxi. In the city of … Continue reading Pink Taxi Power
My last blog post about the conference in Istanbul is on gender. The first conference of this project was last May in Rome, resulting in a book, Rethinking Negotiation Teaching, and a set of articles for the Negotiation Journal. One of the purposes of these conferences is to encourage, if not mandate, cross-disciplinary author teams. So, … Continue reading Gender in the Mediterranean
I just returned from the Public Investors Arbitration Bar Association Annual Meeting in Carlsbad, CA, which featured four days of lively and informative panels and breakout sessions for securities arbitration practitioners. At the opening plenary session, representatives from PIABA, FINRA and NASAA (North American Securities Administrators Association) debated the relative merits of the only securities arbitration forum … Continue reading A Report from PIABA’s Annual Meeting
The Appalachia Journal of Law is looking for ADR-related articles for its Spring 2010 issue. If you wish to be considered, please forward your communications to Blaire Woods, the Articles Editor, at blairnwood@gmail.com. ASL has produced an ADR-dedicated issue since Spring 2006.
The next Law & Society Association Annual Meeting is in Chicago from May 27-May 30, 2010. Proposals for individual papers and panels are due on December 8, 2009. To learn more see: http://www.lawandsociety.org/ann_mtg/am10/call.htm The Law & Society Annual Meeting brings together a wonderfully diverse group of scholars from a variety of fields and countries. There are … Continue reading Law & Society Association Call for Papers
Consider this a reminder that proposals to host next year’s AALS ADR Section’s Works-in-Progress Conference are due tomorrow, October 31st. All of the details for submitting a proposal can be found here.
A good friend of mine is a journalist in Afghanistan who was in the Hotel Serna in Kabul this morning when it was hit by mortar. You can read her account at: http://www.globalpost.com/notebook/afghanistan/091028/the-unexpected-hazards-life-war-zone. The New York Times reported that attack and the deadly attack that same morning by the Taliban at a UN guest house … Continue reading Should we negotiate with the Taliban?
