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?
This past weekend I facilitated a meeting of the Arizona Foreclosure Mediation Task Force, and I have to admit that I did not understand the extent of the foreclosure crisis in Arizona and across the country. One thing that struck me is that this problem is so big in scope. For example, someone threw out … Continue reading Foreclosure Mediation – How Helpful Is It?
As I wrote about last week, I was at a negotiation conference in Istanbul where we were given assignments to actually negotiate in the Spice Market. Melissa Manwaring, who used to work with the Program on Negotiation and is now a professor at Babson College, came up with the great idea of each person from her group of … Continue reading Does the Ayres Study Work in Istanbul?
