ADR Prof Blog

Wallace Warfield died about a week ago, and the world of conflict resolution is now far less rich.
Wallace taught at ICAR at George Mason, and he did stints with SPIDR, with ACUS, with Community Relations Service at DOJ,  with Eastern Mennonite University, and with street gang worked in NYC.  He worked in conflict zones in [...]

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The New York Times just ran an article (full text below) describing the more careful examination some judges are providing to possible settlements related to financial institutions’ misdeeds.  The role of judicial review of settlements is not new, as anyone familiar with Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23 knows.  The public scrutiny of that judicial [...]

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Until this evening, I had no familiarity with the Bell Labs study, examining predictors of high levels of performance in the workplace.  Their study suggested that it wasn’t grades, or other kinds of academic success, and it wasn’t even IQ or other typical academic-success predictors.  Instead, after some years of study, they named at least [...]

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Robert Axelrod, surely familiar to most of us who teach dispute resolution, co-authored an Op-Ed in the New York Times shortly after the Supreme Court’s decision in Holder v Humanitarian Law Project.  (Available here, and reproduced below.) Somehow, I missed this article when it first came out.  Tip of the hat to Jen Reynolds for [...]

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Gina Brown and Jean Sternlight have announced the winner of the 2010 Boskey Essay contest:  Flora Go, a student at Harvard Law School, for her essay, “Mediation as Practiced in Criminal Law: The Present, the Pitfalls, and the Potential.”
Formal announcement appears here.
And the essay itself is available here.
MM

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