ADR Prof Blog

Creating a split with the Third and Eleventh Circuits, the Ninth Circuit has held that a mandatory arbitration clause in a credit card agreement is unenforceable under the Credit Repair Organizations Act. The case, Greenwood v. CompuCredit Corp., was a class action stemming from a credit card marketed to consumers with weak credit as [...]

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 [...]

Kim Knight, the Executive Director of the ABA’s Dispute Resolution Section, has resigned her post to take a position with the AARP.  Having worked with her the last few years, I can say that she will definitely be missed.  Good luck Kim !!
Here’s the announcement sent out by Wayne Thorpe, the Section’s President.
Our Section Director, Kim [...]

In my earlier post about Charles Craver’s most recent article, I find myself in agreement with most of what he says including his description of WIN-win negotiators. But there must be something that I disagree with him about, and that is true.  Craver claims that comment 2 to Rule 4.1 “unequivocally acknowledges” that settlement intentions [...]

That is the title of Charlie Craver’s article in the most recent edition of the Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution.  And yes, it’s about my favorite topic these days, negotiation ethics.  Craver comes from the realpolitik school of negotiation, and if you didn’t already know this, his article makes that quite clear.  I like this [...]