Getting Involved – Call for Volunteers to Assist with the ADR Technical Advisory Project

Among all of the great ideas that came up at the ABA DR Section meetings in San Francisco, the idea of creating a group to provide technical advice on integrating ADR concepts into non-ADR courses may have the most impact.  This proposal comes from the one of the shoptalk sessions from the Legal Educators Colloquium on … Continue reading Getting Involved – Call for Volunteers to Assist with the ADR Technical Advisory Project

Professional Learning Portfolios in law schools

Deborah Jones Merritt (Ohio State) has recently posted her article “Pedagogy, Progress, and Portfolios” to SSRN (link here).  She presents thorough and intriguing visions of “Professional Learning Portfolios.”  One piece of her article describes the implications for those of us who teach ADR, although frankly, I think the ideas have at least as much relevance … Continue reading Professional Learning Portfolios in law schools

Thinking about visiting? How does Vegas sound?

Jean Sternlight from UNLV recently sent this email out via the AALS ADR Section list serv.  Her contact information is below. The Boyd Law School at U. Nevada Las Vegas may be hiring someone to teach two dispute resolution courses next winter/spring semester.  We are flexible re: which courses.  I guarantee good weather, good colleagues, … Continue reading Thinking about visiting? How does Vegas sound?

Educating self-represented litigants

One of the many interesting events that I attended in San Francisco at the ABA Dispute Resolution Conference was a session during the Annual Symposium on Dispute Resolution and the Courts devoted to the “Latest Innovations in ADR Programs for Self-Represented Litigants.”  This session talked about a number of approaches to educate self-represented litigants in … Continue reading Educating self-represented litigants

Greetings from San Francisco…

I am writing from the Spring Conference of the ABA Section on Dispute Resolution in sunny and pleasant San Francisco, CA.  Highlights for me so far have included helping organize, judge and watch the ABA Representation in Mediation Competition, won by the University of Maryland School of Law (students Jeffrey Lillien and David Pantzer, coached by Toby Guerin).  Following … Continue reading Greetings from San Francisco…