Karen Tokarz (Washington U. – St.Louis) shares information about Wash U’s annual ADR scholarship roundtable, this year entitled Social Entrepreneurship, Community Lawyering & Dispute Resolution.  The lineup looks strong and, as a past participant in this event, my biased view is that it is a great event – they do a bang-up job with the event.  An edited version of Karen’s message is below.

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We invite you to join us for the upcoming scholarship roundtable on “Social Entrepreneurship, Community Lawyering & Dispute Resolution,” Th, Nov. 6, 3-6pm, and Fri, Nov. 7, 8-4.  The roundtable will include discussion of nine papers, five selected articles and four works-in-progress:

• Erin Archerd (Ohio State) – “School Resource Officers as Community-Based Mediators; Overlooked Allies for Students and Schools”
• Deborah Burand (Mich) – “Resolving Impact Investment Disputes: When Doing Good Goes Bad”
• Nancy Cook (Mn) – “Building the Corral as We Reinvent the Horse: A Rolling Biography of a University-Community Partnership”
• Amanda Kool & Heather Kulp (Harvard) – “An Uber Conflict: Dispute Resolution in the Sharing Economy”
• Rachel Lopez & Susan Brooks (Drexel) – “Forging a Path Toward a New Community Justice Partnership”
• Alicia Plerhoples (Georgetown) – “Beyond the Entity Debate: Corporate Governance for Social Enterprises”
• Barbara Schatz (Columbia) – “Dispute Resolution in Social Enterprises” – tentative
• Daniel Shaffzin (Memphis) – “You Be the Judge: Exploring Clinical Learning and Social Justice Through the Lens of an Administrative Hearing Officer”
• Paul Tremblay (BC) – “Access to Justice and Transactional Legal Services for Entrepreneurs and Emerging Enterprises”

This roundtable is one of a series of scholarship roundtables in the ADR and clinical areas, hosted here at Washington University over the past decade, in conjunction with the Journal of Law & Policy.  This collaboration has produced four groundbreaking  volumes of ADR scholarship, including New Directions in ADR & Clinical Legal Education, New Directions in Restorative Justice, New Directions in Negotiation & ADR,and New Directions in Global Dispute Resolution, as well as a series of volumes focused on Clinical Education and Access to Justice, several of which address negotiation and dispute resolution issues. These volumes can be accessed at http://law.wustl.edu/journal/pages.aspx?ID=703.