I haven’t seen a copy of this year’s AALS Recruitment Bulletin, so I’m not sure how many law schools have specifically advertised that they are hiring in ADR this season. The University of Oregon School of Law is looking to add a tenure-track ADR faculty member this year. (The official ad appears at the end … Continue reading Hiring New ADR Faculty ?
Apparently, law students at NYU were negotiating this fall–using Starbucks, money, and cookies–to get into certain law school classes. Clearly, this is a fantasy for law professors “My class is so popular that one student baked 3 dozen brownies to get in!” but a nightmare for students. As the New York Post wrote, NYU operated without a waitlist … Continue reading Negotiating for Law School Classes
On SSRN, Chris Drahozal and Quentin Wittrock posted an article analyzing whether franchisors are moving away from mandatory arbitration. Their abstract states: Reports of dissatisfaction with arbitration are increasingly frequent. A recent article by Eisenberg and Miller suggests that businesses are fleeing arbitration, while [a]necdotal evidence suggests that franchisors are either abandoning arbitration altogether or … Continue reading Is there a flight from arbitration?
I just commented on a case from an Ohio Appellate Court where, according to adrworld.com, “the court ruled that a party’s consent to arbitrate an employment discrimination claim through the filing of a counterclaim that was later dismissed did not constitute a waiver of that party’s right to bring the same action in court where … Continue reading Cercone v. Merrill Lynch (Ohio Appellate Court)
The International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution (CPR Institute) has announced its Corporate Leadership prize for 2008, and it’s going to Microsoft and Brad Smith, Microsoft’s General Counsel. The press release mentions Microsoft’s highly visible encounter with ADR in the context of the US v Microsoft antitrust litigation. I don’t have enough familiarity with … Continue reading CPR Prize to Microsoft
Of course, headline writers invariably overstate what the subsequent article actually says. The NYT Business Section ran an article by this title last week, and the headline-to-content mismatch is no more egregious than is probably typical for such articles. The newspaper article describes a soon-to-be published empirical study of settlement behavior, the conclusion of which, … Continue reading The New York Times: “Study Finds Settling is Better than Going to Trial”
As my friend Avi Schneebalg emailed me last month to let me know and the ABA Section on Dispute Resolution newsletter just posted, the EU passed a new mediation directive at the end of April. Here’s the summary from the ABA: “On April 23, 2008 the European Parliament formally approved a Directive to promote the … Continue reading EU Passes New Mediation Directive
The Respondents in the Pyett v. 14 Penn Plaza case, to be argued in the United States Supreme Court this fall, filed their brief this week. http://www.adrworld.com/si.asp?id=2498 Pyett’s argument is based primarily on a belief that Gardner-Denver, is still good law. According to respondents, “This Court’s holding in Alexander v. Gardner-Denver-Co., 415 U.S. 36 (1974), … Continue reading Pyett Files Brief in Supreme Court Arbitration Case
Daniel Schwarcz of the University of Minnesota recently posted an article to SSRN entitled, “Toward a New Approach to Resolving Consumer Insurance Disputes.” Schwarcz’s background is entirely in Insurance Law, and he is a self-confessed newcomer to ADR. He asked that I post a link to his article, with the hopes that he’ll receive feedback … Continue reading ADR in Insurance Claims – Possible Lesson from the UK?
I am linking here to a terrific post by Amos Guiora and Martha Minow about the exchange that happened last week between Israel and Hizbollah. They note two very important negotiation issues ongoing in the exchange of five convicted–and live terrorists–for two bodies of Israeli soldiers. One is the ongoing Israeli commitment to leave no Israeli soldier … Continue reading Negotiating with Terrorists–What is the Correct Exchange Rate?
