ADR Prof Blog

OJ Simpson will be back in court this week in Las Vegas bringing an appeal from his 2008 armed robbery and kidnapping conviction in 2008.  He has apparently filed, through his new lawyer, a 94-page petition for a new trial—which reportedly includes 19 specific issues that the court has agreed to hear “mostly claiming that [...]

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The Texas state legislature meets every other year for a five month term of frenzied law-making. This spring we are in the midst of one of these legislative sessions.  I recently learned of a proposed bill that involves restorative justice, which has some interesting pieces to it.  This bill, S.B. 1237 , expressly authorizes the [...]

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Rishi Batra, currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at Whittier Law, and soon to be an Assistant Professor at Texas Tech Unveristy School of Law (congratulations Rishi!), has a new article that is being published by the Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution: Lafler and Fry:  A New Constitutional Standard For Negotiation, available here . The abstract is: [...]

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The New York Times reported here yesterday that the judge in the Martha Stewart-JC Penny-Macy’s contract dispute ordered the parties into mediation.  This is after three weeks of testimony in a bench trial that consolidated two law suits.  According to the NY Times this will be the first mediation in this case.  Apparently, previously, JC Penny [...]

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When I read news articles on-line I now make a conscious habit of not reading the comments.  It turns out this is probably a good thing for more reasons than just that the comments are often annoying.  As one commentator noted, “The online peanut gallery can get you so riled up that your ability to [...]

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