On a more serious note this week concerning Belgium, the Prime Minister has tendered his resignation to King Albert II. To play out this scenario yourself, you can “Play the News” at Impact Games regarding Belgium. Whether the Belgians will face another 9 months of constitutional stalemate is an interesting dilemma. By the way, still … Continue reading Belgian Schism–Not so Funny
The Institute of Legal Reform, an arm of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, released a study today that offers further evidence that arbitration can be beneficial to consumers in their disputes with businesses. According to the report, at www.instituteforlegalreform.com/media/pressreleases/20080715.cfm, consumers fare better in arbitration than in litigation: “The new analysis, conducted by Navigant Consulting, looked … Continue reading Latest Empirical Study Supports Use of Consumer Arbitration
So I am linking to this clip from last night because it is hilarious–seriously crying funny. The pedagogical link would be that nationalism can show itself in many ways and, clearly for Colbert, the imminent purchase of Budweiser by a Belgian company was too much to take. On a more serious note, I wonder if … Continue reading Colbert on Belgium & Nationalism
Richard Shell has asked me to post this job opening at the Legal Studies department at Wharton. They remain very interested in hiring someone from the negotiation and DR community and have attracted law professors in the past. THE WHARTON SCHOOL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA FACULTY POSITION IN LAW The Legal Studies and Business … Continue reading Wharton Legal Studies Job
UC-Irvine is in the process of creating the first new public law school in California in several decades, and the formation of its faculty had been, for some time, the subject of considerable gossip within the legal academy. (If this doesn’t strike you as gossip-worthy, you obviously don’t spend your days inside the walls of … Continue reading UC-Irvine’s New Law Faculty
Have you written a will? Do you have a list (and pictures) of insurable items in your home? Probably not if you are typical. We don’t like to think about negative future events and so we avoid planning for them. Of course, that doesn’t actually solve the problem. Last weekend, I served on a panel … Continue reading Anticipating the Worst
Christopher Annunnziata, who blogs at ckamediation.com recently wrote a post entitled, “Is Court-Referred Mediation Fair?” My first instinct on reading any articles on fairness in court-connected mediation is to place them in this context of Nancy Welsh’s work and about Carrie Menkel-Meadow’s work. Nancy and Carrie have, to my mind, provided awfully thorough treatment of … Continue reading Fairness in court-affiliated mediation
Lela Love and Stawart Sterk recently published an article, Leaving More than Money: Mediation Clauses in Estate Planning Documents, 65 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 539 (2008). The abstract of their article reads: When probate disputes arise, an increasing number of courts have been referring those disputes to mediation. Estate planners, however, have been less … Continue reading Mediation, Probate, and Estate Planning
Art Hinshaw at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University announced the dates set for the next round of Works-in-Progress conference. It will be the weekend of October 24th and 25th. As Art said, “Join us and present your recent scholarship or works in progress, get feedback from colleagues, and learn … Continue reading Works-in-Progress Conference 2008
I read recently that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has voted to permit pilot projects aimed at developing alternative ways of processing EEO complaints. I have not read the details of the draft regulation. As I understand it, the principal motivation for the regulation is to encourage creativity and flexibility in the handling of these … Continue reading Alternatives to Alternatives: The EEOC’s Next Experiments
