Hi everyone! It was great to “see” so many of you last week at the ABA virtual conference and congrats again to Dwight for his well-deserved honor 🙂 If you are looking for one more opportunity to get together as a community, here you go! And this is a particularly good way to support the continued … Continue reading DR WIP Consortium Series–Discovering New Voices in DR–Friday April 30
Congratulations to the Rand Institute, Resolution Systems Institute (RSI) and to Art Hinshaw, Indisputably blogger, and the rest of the Arizona State University ADR team for receiving grants in the latest cycle of AAA-ICDR Foundation’s grant issuance. In this grant cycle, the Foundation focused on issues related to COVID-19 and Racial Injustice. Thanks also to … Continue reading Congratulations to ASU, RSI and Rand for Receiving AAA-ICDR Grants
From EFOI Elayne Greenberg: The AALS Section on ADR is seeking nominations for the annual Section Award for best dispute resolution article published in a law review or other academic journal, in print or online, bearing a 2020 volume date. Which articles qualify for consideration? The article must be published in a law review or … Continue reading AALS Call for Nominations for Best Article of 2020
Paul M. Lurie, now a retired partner at Schiff Hardin LLP, in 2013 created the Guided Choice Interest Group and its website. It established what is now known as the Guided Mediation, which was originally called Guided Choice Mediation. Here’s his description of the current process. Guided Mediation is a collection of best practices … Continue reading Paul M. Lurie on Guided Mediation
Dilyara Nigmatullina just published an article entitled, Planned Early Dispute Resolution Systems and Elements: Experiences and the Promise of Technology, in the Journal of International Dispute Settlement. She is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Antwerp (Belgium) Faculty of Law, Law Enforcement Research Group. Here’s the abstract: The COVID-19 outbreak has severely impacted global … Continue reading Dilyara Nigmatullina’s New Article on Planned Early Dispute Resolution and Technology
Out of my work on an article for the upcoming symposium issue of the Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution on the use of informal resolution mechanisms in resolving campus Title IX complaints came the following op-ed, published today in the Cleveland Plain-Dealer.
Our friend, Rick Bales, has a new article on SSRN examining the ways in which Canada handled workplace issues during Covid. Novel Issues in Canadian Labour Arbitration Related to COVID-19. The COVID-19 pandemic of 2020-21 changed working conditions for millions of Canadians quickly and dramatically. Employers responded by requiring employees to quarantine, implementing workplace COVID … Continue reading Learning From Our Neighbors Up North
The theme for the 2021 ABA Section of Dispute Resolution Conference is “Agility, Disruption and Reinvention: ADR in a New World.” The virtual conference will take place April 4-17. Registration will close at 5 pm ET on April 13. The conference is the largest gathering of the dispute resolution professional community. Participate in “ADR in … Continue reading Tuesday, April 13 is the Deadline to Register for the ABA Conference
The Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System (IAALS), the Chicago Bar Foundation, the ABA Standing Committee on the Delivery of Legal Services, and the Self-Represented Litigation Network (SRLN) are hosting a three-day virtual event that will focus on the major hows and whys of supporting and implementing the practice of unbundled legal … Continue reading Virtual Conference on Unbundled Legal Services in the New Normal – April 20-22
This morning The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law’s Divided Community Project (DCP) released a dispute systems design-centered guide for communities advancing racial equity initiatives. Titled “Planning Initiatives for Working Together To Advance Racial Equity”, the guide was developed in partnership with OSU’s Mershon Center for International Security Studies, and with input from those … Continue reading OSU’s DCP Releases Guide to Advance Race Equity Initiatives
