For those of you heading to the ABA DR Section Conference in San Francisco next week, I encourage you to participate in the Legal Educators Colloquium (LEC) – the portion of the conference specifically dedicated to ADR Profs.  The entire lineup of presentations is available here.  You can’t go wrong with any of them.  I also want to highlight the Shoptalk portion of the LEC, which we just started last year.  In case you weren’t there, the idea is to have a discussion about a particular topic instead of a presentation.  Last year’s discussion was great, and this year’s program promises to be just as good or better.   

Here’s what the conference brochure’s description of the Shoptalk program.

Law Professors’ Shoptalk Forum: Revisiting Core Concepts

In this 11th iteration of the Legal Educators’ Colloquium, it is difficult not to notice that some of the hot topics from the first LEC are still burning bright. This year’s forum promises to be interesting for anyone who teaches in the ADR curriculum. Come ready to participate in an interesting conversation. The two sessions described below will run consecutively with a short intermission between them.

1st Session
This session focuses on the interplay between ADR and substantive law classes. John Lande and Jean Sternlight will lead a discussion based on their most recent ideas to get ADR issues integrated into the substantive law curriculum. Understanding that there are two sides to this coin, Nancy Welsh and Michael Moffitt will lead a discussion about putting substantive law into ADR classes.

FACULTY:
John Lande, University of Missouri School of Law, Columbia, MO
Michael Moffitt, University of Oregon School of Law, Eugene, OR
Jean Sternlight, William S. Boyd School of Law, UNLV, Las Vegas, NV
Nancy Welsh, Penn State University, Dickinson School of Law, Carlisle, PA

2nd Session
Using selected clips from a videotaped negotiation simulation by two law students, Andrea Schneider and Russell Korobkin will explain their focus and decisions in assessing the students’ negotiation approaches, styles, techniques and outcomes. Their ideas will kick off a deeper discussion about the uniformity or variability that exists as we teach and evaluate our students’ performance. 

FACULTY:
Dwight Golann, Suffolk Law School, Boston, MA (moderator)
Russell Korobkin, UCLA School of Law, Los Angeles, CA
Andrea Schneider, Marquette Law School, Milwaukee, WI