ADR Prof Blog

I am happy to welcome Susan Yates and RSI to the ADR blogosphere.  Their new court-connected blog is outlined below in a message from Susan:
I am excited to announce Resolution Systems Institute’s new blog, Just Court ADR. The blog is written by two RSI colleagues and myself, and highlights important topics in court ADR. We [...]

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Last week, we were privileged to hear Professor Michael Klarman speak on Why Brown v. Board of Education Was a Hard Case.  This was one of the most enjoyable and interesting talks I have heard in a long time–I highly recommend it and you can click here to get the webcast.  My guess is that this [...]

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I attended a conference at NYU two weeks ago as part of NYU’s Journal of International Law & Politics symposium on the “Normalization of Adjudication in Complex International Governance Regimes.”  Invited to bring a little dispute resolution to this otherwise complete adjudicatory focus, it was very interesting to think about what the “normalization” of international courts and [...]

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Len Riskin and Nancy Welsh recently posted a version of their article, “Is that All There is?  The ‘Problem’ in Court-Oriented Mediation.“  I gather from the taglines that it will be published in the George Mason Law Review later this year, and I look forward to seeing the final version.
The question Len and Nancy ask [...]

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In response to Sarah Cole’s initial posting on the Hall Street decision, ohwilleke wrote:
The clearest purpose I can see for the ruling is an institutional perogative of the judicial branch which does not want to be compelled to provide a la carte justice on demand.      
What’s interesting about the hypothesis ohwilleke offers is that courts ARE [...]

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