The ABA Section of Dispute Resolution is sponsoring a Mediation Video Contest on YouTube. Details are here. The Section seeks “creative, thoughtful, original three-minute videos that demonstrate the mediation process and benefits of mediation. The goal of the competition is to further public understanding of mediation and to promote the use of mediation as a … Continue reading Mediation Video Contest
Lawrence E. Dubé of BNA’s Labor Relations Week reported on a post-Pyett discussion at a recent ABA meeting: “The U.S. Supreme Court ruled earlier this year that a collective bargaining agreement “clearly and unmistakably” requiring employees to arbitrate claims under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act is enforceable, but employers and unions still are uncertain … Continue reading ABA Discussion of Impact of Pyett on Union-Management Relations
With the 20th anniversary of the tearing down of the Berlin Wall yesterday, I have been reflecting a lot on divides. I was lucky enough to spend a year working in Germany, from August 1988 to May 1989, in Cologne for the year between college and law school. And, although it killed me not to get … Continue reading Take Down This Wall
Oregon hosted a conference over the past weekend at which Larry Susskind (MIT, PON, and the Consensus Building Institute) was the keynote speaker. I scribbled a bunch of notes on which I’ll blog at some point. But first, I have to confess that I had no idea that Larry Susskind has a blog at http://theconsensusbuildingapproach.blogspot.com/. … Continue reading Larry Susskind in the blogosphere
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
