The majority opinion in the Breslin case led me to write my piece, Courts Should Make Mediation Good Samaritans Not Frankensteins, which led the CPR Mediation Committee to sponsor a program, Consequences of Not Participating in Court Ordered Mediation: What Is Fair? I was one of the speakers, along with Lauren A. Jones, ADR Coordinator … Continue reading Charting a Middle Course for Court-Connected Mediation
Please consider this call for symposium contributions from The Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution and colleagues at the Divided Community Project, Stanford, and HNMCP. UPDATE (July 16, 2021): UPDATE: Symposium collaborators have received interest from several potential contributors who do not have the privilege to develop symposium contributions in the course of their regular work. Thanks … Continue reading Call for proposals: Collaborative Efforts on Race and Racial Equity
Dear Colleagues, We hope you are enjoying your summer. The Straus Institute at Pepperdine Caruso School of Law is delighted to host the 14th Annual AALS Section on Dispute Resolution Works-in-Progress Scholarship Conference in Malibu, CA on October 8-9, 2021. As many of you know, the Works-in-Progress Conference convenes scholars and researchers at all levels … Continue reading 2021 Works in Progress Conference Dates Announced!
Toby Guerin (Maryland) recently won the Chief Judge Robert M. Bell Award for Outstanding Contribution to Alternative Dispute Resolution in Maryland, the Maryland State Bar ADR Section’s the highest honor. As many of you know, Judge Bell was a leader in the use of ADR in the Maryland judiciary, schools, government, and communities during his … Continue reading Guerin Receives Top ADR Award from the Maryland State Bar Association
Michael Lang and Peter Nicholson edited a book, Family Conflict During a Pandemic: Stories of Struggles and Hope. It is a collection of short contributions, including stories, essays, poetry and art work by 93 people from 17 countries including pieces in 9 languages. The pieces are organized in four sections: Authors explain how they and … Continue reading New Book on Family Conflict During a Pandemic
Dear Readers, After organizing a culturally diverse dispute resolution conference for 30 years, the CADR is organizing 2021 Virtual Conference on June 23, 24, 25, 28 and 29, 2021 on “Managing Conflict and Understanding the Implicit Barriers and Underlying Sources”. The Conference Agenda is available here: https://natlctr4adr.org/docs/2021/ADR_2021_Virtual_Conference.pdf The Registration Information is available here: https://www.natlctr4adr.org/index.html. About … Continue reading The Center for Alternative Dispute Resolution Virtual Conference
With much thanks to WFOI Peter Reilly (Texas A&M) for gathering this wonderful list of publications and/or works-in-progress from the ADR scholarly community, here is the Summer 2021 edition of ADR Scholarship Projects: Erin Archerd (University of Detroit Mercy School of Law) Building on my recent article, Two Hearts and Brewer/Distributor Conflicts (forthcoming in the University of … Continue reading ADR Scholarship Projects (Summer 2021)
Thanks to GFOI Maureen Weston (Pepperdine) for sending along this note about the ABA’s Arbitration Competition The ABA Law Student Division is looking for schools to host an Arbitration Regional Competition this fall! The ABA has decided that the 2021-2022 Arbitration Competition will be remote. This includes nationals. The ABA will waive the entry fee … Continue reading Invitation to Host ABA Arbitration Regional Competition
Like it or not, facilitative and evaluative mediation are part of the social reality of our field. Despite the fact that these models are misleading and provide counterproductive concepts to guide mediators’ behaviors and set parties’ expectations, they are inescapable. They are standard elements in texts, courses, trainings, and general discourse in our field. They … Continue reading Reconciling Allegedly Alternative Mediation Models by Using DIY Models
My colleague, Ilhyung Lee, the director of Missouri’s Center for the Study of Dispute Resolution, announced the initiation of an annual writing competition, co-sponsored by the National Academy of Arbitrators (NAA). With a generous grant from the NAA Research and Education Foundation, this initiative encourages research and scholarship in the labor and employment field. Beginning … Continue reading Journal of Dispute Resolution Writing Competition – August 15 Deadline
