What’s sex education got to do with dispute resolution? If you have to ask, maybe you should go back to high school. Wait, that’s a terrible idea. Instead, you might watch the Sex Education series on Netflix, which just dropped its third season. The premise is that an unlikely duo of high school students set … Continue reading Sex Education
Yesterday TaxProf blog posted the 68 Most-Cited Law Faculties according to the Sisk, Catlin, Anderson, and Gunderson study titled Scholarly Impact of Law School Faculties in 2021. According to the list, here are the DR faculty among the top 10 most-cited faculty the top 68 most-cited law schools: 6. Stanford – D. Hensler 9. Vanderbilt … Continue reading Dispute Resolution Faculty among the Top 10 Cited faculty at the 68 Most Cited Law Schools (updated)
Law professors regularly are asked how does one become a law prof? It’s a good question, and one that almost all of us asked when we were in your shoes. If you are interested in the answer or simply curious, the Transforming the Legal Academy online conference is for you. And if you’re not sure, … Continue reading Interested in a Law Faculty Position and Don’t Know How to Get There?
Our friend Joan Sterns Johnsen (Florida) sends this message as a follow up to a similar announcement on the listserv. The University of Florida Levin College of Law is hiring. We are looking for three clinical positions including a Mediation Clinic. There is some flexibility as to the type of Mediation Clinic. The other two … Continue reading Florida is Hiring – Mediation Clinic
Early coal mines didn’t have good ventilation, and miners were at risk from dangerous gases in the mines. So miners would bring canaries into the mines because they were sensitive to the gases and provided a warning of danger. The canaries would sing until they died from the gases. When they stopped singing, miners knew … Continue reading Canaries in the Litigation Coal Mine
Updated w/ new info (as promised) . . . . As legal education appears to be making a comeback, movement among people in the dispute resolution field is on the uptick. And, here’s hoping the upcoming year(s) we’re able to find some talented folks to fill the shoes of our retiring colleagues. And if I’ve … Continue reading Comings and Goings – 2021 edition (updated)
Law school teaches students that law is a seamless web of rules emanating from authorities like statutes and cases which they must memorize and finely parse in hypothetical cases. In real life, practitioners generally think of law in terms of Oliver Wendell Holmes’s famous definition: “prophecies of what the courts will do in fact.” Of … Continue reading The Role of Law in Legal Disputes
On Monday September 13, 2021 (beginning at 12:10 eastern), Alexandra Carter will deliver The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law’s 2021 Lawrence Lecture on Dispute Resolution: “Ask for More.” Here is the description from OSU’s website. Negotiation is not a zero-sum game. It’s an essential skill for your career that can also improve your … Continue reading ALEXANDRA CARTER TO DELIVER MORITZ’S 2021 LAWRENCE LECTURE
From my colleague, Ilhyung Lee, Director of Missouri’s Center for the Study of Dispute Resolution: The University of Missouri School of Law invites applications for one full-time tenure-track or tenured position. Senior lateral candidates should have a national reputation for distinguished scholarship and a record of excellence in teaching. Entry-level and junior lateral candidates should … Continue reading Missouri is Hiring Entry-Level or Lateral Faculty
The Association for Conflict Resolution of Greater New York and the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in the City University of New York recently hosted an interesting breakfast roundtable featuring Gary Friedman, discussing his unfortunate tenure as a local elected government official. You may recall that this was the subject of a series of … Continue reading More on Gary Friedman’s Not-So-Excellent Adventure in Politics
