In a very interesting decision by the Wisconsin Court of Appeals last week, the Court upheld an arbitration award against the large household goods store Menard’s for employment discrimination against, wait for it, its own in-house lawyer. As reported in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Menard Inc. must reinstate a woman it fired as vice president … Continue reading Wisconsin Court Affirms Arbitration Award of Reinstatement
Hi–I’ve copied the announcement for the ABA’s annual law student writing competition in Dispute Resolution. Please encourage all of your students to apply! James Boskey ADR Writing Competition First Prize: $1000 to the Competition winner and an invitation to publish in Penn State’s Dickinson School of Law’s Yearbook On Arbitration and Mediation The essay may … Continue reading Boskey Writing Competition
Congratulations to Faith Alejandro and Paul Falabella from the the University of Richmond School of Law for winning the National Championship in the ABA Representation in Mediation Competition. This year’s field of competitors at the National Round was outstanding and very closely matched, which was typified by the scoring of the judges in the final … Continue reading University of Richmond – National Champs !!
The New York Times ran an article about the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s agreement about the agreement that led to the return of disputed artifacts to Italy in exchange for a system of rotating pieces on loan. Yesterday came word through Reuters that the Getty will be receiving antiquities on loan from the National Archeological … Continue reading ADR and Art Disputes
As an exercise for my ethics class, I had each student write down their top ten commandments of billing in the hope that they would both learn and have these rules in a nice, easy place to find and print once they start practice. As the Ten Commandments was on this past weekend, it seems … Continue reading The Ten Commandments (of Billing)
The Chronicle today ran an article about restorative justice programs on campuses. I paste much of the text of it below. I wonder whether many state Bars have refined their fitness questions and standards to reflect changes in the ways that campuses deal with offenses. Perhaps a good research paper for a law student?… Michael … Continue reading Restorative Justice in the Chronicle of Higher Education
Our media files, including pictures and webcasts of the presentations, is now available. Click here for access to the pictures, videotapes, and podcasts. The written products of the conference will be in the fall issue of the Marquette Law Review.
This morning NPR’s Morning Edition show aired a story on the mediation of elder care issues. Like many such stories, it discusses the basics of mediation and mentions how to find mediators in one’s area for handle such issues. Audio and print versions of the story can be found at: www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=102972077
In 2006 American Board of Neutrals Association (ABNA) incorporated and started accepting applications for membership this January. The organization is geared towards those who have graduate degrees – masters, doctoral, LLM – in the field of Negotiations and Conflict/Alternative Dispute Resolution/Peace Studies. The ABNA’s web site indicates that it is quite an ambitious organization. … Continue reading Birth of a New ADR Organization
At our International Media & Conflict Conference in March, Professor Lisa Laplante discussed the use of blogs in tracking transitional justice efforts and, in particular, her blog on the Fujimori trial in Peru. The blog is a unique bilingual effort to keep the world apprised of this trial. Yesterday, the Peruvian court announced their guilty verdict–the … Continue reading Fujimori, Blogs, and Transitional Justice
