ADR Prof Blog

Many lawyers seem to be constantly questioning whether they can be happy as lawyers.   A new book, The Happy Lawyer:  Making a Good Life in the Law takes a comprehensive look at this question and concludes that yes, it is very possible to be a happy lawyer.  Professors Nancy Levit and Douglas O. Linder do a [...]

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The International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled today, in an advisory opinion, that Kosovo’s 2008 unilateral declaration of independence did not violate international law.  It will be interesting to watch the impact from this decision.  In the short term the obvious hope is that the decision will not incite violence in Serbia or within Kosovo.  [...]

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As one of my final posts about Kosovo, I thought that some readers might be interested in a snapshot of what life is like for law professors in Europe’s newest state.   
If you taught a first year course at the main public university in the capital of Pristina you would enjoy classes of nearly 1000 (yes, [...]

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The deadline was recently extended for those interested in presenting at the upcoming Empirical Legal Sutdies Conference.  The announcement is below:
The Conference on Empirical Legal Studies 2010 of the Society for Empirical Legal Studies (SELS) will be held at the Yale Law School, in New Haven, Connecticut, on Friday, November 5 and Saturday, November 6, [...]

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As I posted earlier this week, I am in Kosovo for a few weeks at the invitation of the American Bar Association to do an assessment of legal education in the country.  As part of that process I had meetings outside of Pristina so we set out for a full day road trip.  It is [...]

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