I’ve been highlighting the academic winners of the CPR Awards with short summaries of the each award winner (past entries summary here and here  Today, it’s the winner of the Book Award, The Arbitration Conversation: Insights and Wisdom from Experts in the Field (ABA 2024) by Amy Schmitz (Ohio State).  Her summary is below along with … Continue reading CPR Awards – Summary – The Arbitration Conversation: Insights and Wisdom from Experts in the Field →

Last week I started a short series highlighting the academic winners of the CPR Awards with a short summary of one of the co-winners of the 2025 Professional Article Award.  Today, it’s the other co-winner of this award, Expanding the Ban on Forced Arbitration to Race Claims by Michael Z. Green (Texas A&M) which appeared … Continue reading CPR Awards – Abstract – Expanding the Ban on Forced Arbitration to Race Claims →

If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you know that the 2024 CPR Awards were announced last week.  I’ve asked the academic winners to send me an abstract or summary of their award winning works to be posted here, which I will be doing over the next couple of weeks. As you might expect, … Continue reading CPR Awards – Article Summary – Comparing Joint Session and Caucus Outcomes: Factoring in Substantive Discussions and Case Characteristics →

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I’m happy to announce that the Center for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution at the University of California, College of the Law, San Francisco (formerly UC Hastings) is hiring! The Center is a top Law School ADR Center that engages in a vast array of research, teaching, policy, and consulting work, both domestically and internationally. We … Continue reading Job announcement: UC Law San Francisco →

If you’re on the ADR prof listserv, you’ve seen some congratulatory remarks about the CPR Awards, which were announced yesterday.  If you’re not familiar with the awards, the press release announcing them describes the awards as follows: The CPR Institute’s Annual Awards program honors outstanding scholarship and practical achievement in the field of alternative dispute … Continue reading 2024 CPR Award Winners Announced →

The powerhouse team of Carrie Menkel-Meadow (UCIrvine) and Andrea Kupfer Schneider (Cardozo) have just published a new book, International Conflict Resolution Processes (Carolina Press 2025).  The book will have a teachers’ manual and was developed based on their learning and experiences teaching in 25 countries.  Nice cover and blurb below.  Congrats ! The book explores … Continue reading International Conflict Resolution Processes – Menkel-Meadow and Schneider →

I am pleased to share this announcement of a new writing competition co-sponsored by the North America Committee of the Campaign for Greener Arbitrations (CGA-NA) and the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University. We are seeking papers from anyone interested in the intersection of arbitration and environmental law, and papers should make a … Continue reading Call for Submissions – Writing Competition – Arbitration +Environmental Law →