ADR Prof Blog

Professor Alan Rau sent me a description of an interesting symposium on international arbitration that will take place in Houston on May 13-14:
The University of Texas, along with the Permanent Court of Arbitration and the Houston International Arbitration Club, will be sponsoring a symposium in Houston on May 13-14 on the subject, “Arbitrators and National [...]

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I participated earlier this week in a fabulous conference at Washington & Lee discussing the current system of investment arbitration and ways that this system could be improved.  In an earlier post, I described how this conference was billed as a mix of pracitioners and academics and the panels were just that.  On my panel, [...]

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Earlier this week, the New York Times had an article about how citizens of the Georgia (the country) were in a panic over a fake news broadcast that stated Russia was invading Georgia.  Although the television show was intended as political satire, it was apparently so real (and close to home) that citizens believed the [...]

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In a wonderful example of academia working with practitioners, I am delighted to announce this conference:
On March 29, 2010, Washington and Lee School of Law will host a Joint Symposium with the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) to explore the prevention and efficient management of investment treaty disputes.
The event will bring together [...]

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Following up to yesterday’s post on gender in different countries around the world, a student sent me a great article about how women in Mexico are dealing with the problem of their gendered context in which male cab drivers generally leer at and make comments about the women in their taxi.  In the city of [...]

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