Today started on a sad note when I woke up to NPR to hear that Alex Chilton, a music icon in my eyes, passed away. If my life were a movie, surely a couple of his songs would be on the soundtrack. Alex Chilton was a singer-songwriter who is most well known for the huge mid-1960s hit … Continue reading Alex Chilton, R.I.P.
From Ran Kuttner at Creighton: The Werner Institute for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution at Creighton University School of Law welcomes applications for a full-time faculty position in Conflict Resolution to begin August 2010. As Assistant Professor of Conflict Resolution, the successful candidate will teach graduate courses in Conflict Analysis and Dispute Resolution. The position will … Continue reading ADR Academic Job: Werner Institute
Last weekend on the Harvard Law School Forum for Corporate Governance, partner Rachelle Silverberg from Wachtell Lipton posted the following blog: New rules took effect February in Delaware governing the arbitration of business disputes in the Delaware Court of Chancery. The rules implement amendments to Delaware law, adopted last year, granting the Chancery Court jurisdiction to … Continue reading Judges as Arbitrators? See Delaware…
From Jean Sternlight: On March 12-13 of this year the Saltman Center for Conflict Resolution offered a conference entitled Conflict Resolution and the Economic Crisis. Including approximately 30 speakers from around the country the conference focused on a variety of ways in which conflict resolution tools can be used effectively to deal with consequences of … Continue reading UNLV Conference on Conflict Resolution & the Economic Crisis
It’s hard to believe that it’s been two months since the AALS Annual Meetings in New Orleans (was it cold there or what?). I had promised to give a report about the ADR Section’s program, and it’s taken me longer to get to this than anticipated to to it. Nevertheless, the program was first-rate and … Continue reading Overcoming the Difficulties of Teaching Negotiation Ethics – AALS ADR Section Program, Part 1
One of today’s headings on the front page of the Columbus Dispatch stated that a mediator reinstated an officer who had been caught driving 149 mph on his motorcycle (off duty). Here is the online story (slightly different headline): 149-mph officer wins his job back Mediator: It wasn’t proved that he abused his position Wednesday, … Continue reading Mediation and Arbitration are Not the Same Thing
I am linking here to a blog post from a practitioner fed up with standard clauses and standard problems. As he writes: Today’s issue of the New York Law Journal contains my article “The AAA Standard Arbitration Clause: Room for Improvement.” Click here to go to a pdf copy. (It’s also available here if you … Continue reading AAA Standard Arbitration Clause redraft
In a wonderful example of academia working with practitioners, I am delighted to announce this conference: On March 29, 2010, Washington and Lee School of Law will host a Joint Symposium with the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) to explore the prevention and efficient management of investment treaty disputes. The event will … Continue reading Washington & Lee and the United Nations Host a Joint Symposium on International Investment and ADR
Last week, I saw a great piece in a newsletter from business coach Deborah Grayson Riegel about how focusing closely can really help you make progress. U.S. Olympic bobsled pilot Steven Holcomb had been piloting his four-man sled virtually blind due to an eye disease when he decided to have surgery to restore his vision. … Continue reading Gold Medal Lawyering–Mindfulness at Work
The ADR in Law Schools Committee of the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution seeks several experienced mediators to mediate the National Final Rounds of the ABA Representation in Mediation Competition. In the competition, students play the role of lawyer and client in a mediation of a simulated case and are judged on their prolem-solving skills. The competition … Continue reading Volunteer Mediators needed in San Francisco on April 7-8
