Monday August 30th is the deadline to respond to the RFP for the ABA DR Section Conference in Denver on April 13-16, 2011. My original post announcing the RFP w/ a link to the announcement and submission web site can be accessed here. If you’re like me, you’ll be getting your proposal(s) in at the wire. 🙂
A New York lower court has denied a “feeder” hedge fund’s motion to vacate an arbitration award issued by a majority of an American Arbitration Association panel in connection with an investor’s claim against the fund for losses related to the Madoff Ponzi scheme. In Wiederhorn v. Merkin (601265/2010), New York Supreme Court, New York County, … Continue reading NY Lower Court Confirms Madoff-Related Arbitration Award
The New York Times just ran an article (full text below) describing the more careful examination some judges are providing to possible settlements related to financial institutions’ misdeeds. The role of judicial review of settlements is not new, as anyone familiar with Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23 knows. The public scrutiny of that judicial … Continue reading Assessing Settlements – Judicial Deference, the Feds, & the Banks
Until this evening, I had no familiarity with the Bell Labs study, examining predictors of high levels of performance in the workplace. Their study suggested that it wasn’t grades, or other kinds of academic success, and it wasn’t even IQ or other typical academic-success predictors. Instead, after some years of study, they named at least … Continue reading High-Performance in the Workplace
The AALS Dispute Resolution Section’s Executive Committee is seeking a host for the 5th Annual Works-in-Progress Conference to take place in the fall of 2011. The RFP is in its entirety below. And don’t forget that this year’s WIP Conference will be taking place at the University of Oregon School of Law and promises to be … Continue reading Request for Proposals – 2011 AALS ADR Section Works-in-Progress Conference
Robert Axelrod, surely familiar to most of us who teach dispute resolution, co-authored an Op-Ed in the New York Times shortly after the Supreme Court’s decision in Holder v Humanitarian Law Project. (Available here, and reproduced below.) Somehow, I missed this article when it first came out. Tip of the hat to Jen Reynolds for … Continue reading Axelrod on the Humanitarian Law Project Opinion
Today is the first day of Orientation for our incoming 1Ls, and it gives me time to reflect on the faculty roster changes in the ADR field. Here are those that I’ve been able to come up with so far. If I have missed one that you know about, please list that change in the comments below. Good luck … Continue reading ADR Faculty Roster Changes
In a development likely to reduce the number of matrimonial disputes going through acrimonious litigation in New York, Governor David Patterson finally signed into law yesterday an amendment to New York’s domestic relations law adding “irreconcilable differences” as a valid ground for divorce. New York was the only state remaining in the country to require proof … Continue reading New York last state in the country to finally add a no-fault divorce provision
Gina Brown and Jean Sternlight have announced the winner of the 2010 Boskey Essay contest: Flora Go, a student at Harvard Law School, for her essay, “Mediation as Practiced in Criminal Law: The Present, the Pitfalls, and the Potential.” Formal announcement appears here. And the essay itself is available here. MM
Kent Syverud, Dean of the Washington University School of Law, has been named one of two trustees for the $20 billion Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Trust. As trustee, Dean Syverud will be administering the trust, which presumably means he’ll be signing off on the paying of monies that Kenneth Feinberg and his group award to spill victims. … Continue reading Kent Syverud named BP Fund Trustee
