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Restorative Justice Conference in Missouri for Missouri

July 2nd, 2009 by Cynthia Alkon · No Comments

The Restorative Justice in Adult Courts Committee of the Missouri Restorative Justice Coalition is sponsoring a symposium on Restorative Justice in Adult Criminal Courts on Friday Nov. 13, 2009, at the University of Missouri-Columbia.  During the morning plenary session experts in the field, both academics and practitioners, will present papers on restorative justice in adult courts.  The workshops in […]

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Call for Proposals – ABA Dispute Resolution Section Conference

July 1st, 2009 by Art Hinshaw · No Comments

The ABA’s Dispute Resolution Section has just issued its Call for Proposals for the Section’s annual meeting next April in San Francisco.  A copy of the Call for Proposals can be seen here, and the proposal form can be accessed here.  As an fyi, priority is given to proposals that introduce new and innovative concepts, […]

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Mediation and the Separability Doctrine

June 29th, 2009 by Michael Moffitt · 1 Comment

No, that’s not a typo.  And no, I am not among the persistent number who treat “arbitration” and “mediation” as coterminous.  I mean “Mediation.”  And I mean “Separability.”
I was reading a recent case — Santana v. Olguin, 208 P.3d 328 (Kan.App., May 29, 2009), and it made me wonder how courts treat mediation provisions in […]

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What are their interests? Negotiating with North Korea

June 23rd, 2009 by Cynthia Alkon · 1 Comment

North Korea recently sentenced two U.S. journalists, Laura Ling and Euna Lee, to 12 years of hard labor for illegally crossing the North Korean border.  By all accounts imprisonment in North Korea, especially in a labor camp, is horrible and potentially life-threatening.  The question now is whether their early release can be negotiated. 
 
This situation […]

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Development and Outcomes of Investment Treaty Arbitration

June 22nd, 2009 by Art Hinshaw · 1 Comment

Professor Susan Franck at Washington and Lee has an interesting new paper about investment treaty arbitration that just hit SSRN.  The paper disputes assertions of certain governments (like Bolivia and Ecuador) that suggest the investment treaty process is unfairly tilted against the developing world.  In addition it makes a case for using ADR and Dispute […]

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