ADR Prof Blog

The University of Oregon School of Law is pleased to host this year’s installment of the ADR Works-in-Progress Conference.  We’ll be gathering in Eugene, Oregon, October 15-16, 2010.
Lots more information soon.  (No, Andrea, no details yet on precisely which local wines we’ll be serving.)
For now, please mark the dates on your calendars and plan to [...]

Today, AT&T filed a petition for certiorari in AT&T Mobility LLC v. Concepcion, raising the question “[w]hether the FAA preempts States from conditioning the enforcement of an arbitration agreement on the availability of particular procedures–here, class-wide arbitration–when those procedures are not necessary to ensure that the parties to the arbitration agreement are able to vindicate [...]

Surely there are fewer better proxies for legitimacy than to be the target of The Onion.
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/saints_colts_hoping_to_resolve
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Saints, Colts Hoping To Resolve Super Bowl Through Diplomacy
JANUARY 29, 2010 | ONION SPORTS
MIAMI—Team officials from the New Orleans Saints and Indianapolis Colts emerged from a tense, 12-hour negotiating session Thursday and told reporters that, while they had yet to [...]

A document was recently submitted to the ABA House of Delegates in support of the Uniform Collaborative Law Act.
The letter was signed by about fifty prominent law professors and deans nationwide (along with some riff-raff from Oregon).
If I could figure out how to attach it to this post, or if I could find a link [...]

I had imagined that I might take some months off from the idea of saying anything about college football.  (Yes, yes.  I sent filberts to Sarah Cole after the Rose Bowl.)  But ESPN today ran a story about the prospect of the dispute between Texas Tech and recently dismissed football coach Mike Leach being resolve [...]