Jean Sternlight just sent around the following announcement about Len Riskin’s recent visit to UNLV: The Saltman Center for Conflict Resolution at UNLV Boyd School of Law was recently privileged to host Professor Leonard Riskin (U. Florida) as our annual Saltman Lecturer. Len’s topic was: “Awareness in Dispute Resolution and Law.” He explored how mindfulness … Continue reading Len Riskin – webcast of Saltman Lecture
The Searle Civil Justice Institute recently added further evidence to inform the ongoing debate about the benefits and drawbacks of consumer arbitration. The March 2009 preliminary report, which reviewed 301 consumer arbitration cases administered by AAA, makes a number of findings: “The upfront cost of arbitration for consumer claimants in cases administered by the AAA … Continue reading Searle Civil Justice Institute Finds Consumer Arbitration Fair
The US News rankings are out, and as usual, they are controversial. In the overall law school rankings, their methodology is questionable as all kinds of factors are counted and law schools have (shocker) learned how to game the system. In the specialty rankings, my understanding is that the rankings are based purely on reputational … Continue reading 2009 US News Rankings – Dispute Resolution Edition
Hi–I’ve copied the announcement for the ABA’s annual law student writing competition in Dispute Resolution. Please encourage all of your students to apply! James Boskey ADR Writing Competition First Prize: $1000 to the Competition winner and an invitation to publish in Penn State’s Dickinson School of Law’s Yearbook On Arbitration and Mediation The essay may … Continue reading Boskey Writing Competition
The New York Times ran an article about the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s agreement about the agreement that led to the return of disputed artifacts to Italy in exchange for a system of rotating pieces on loan. Yesterday came word through Reuters that the Getty will be receiving antiquities on loan from the National Archeological … Continue reading ADR and Art Disputes
As an exercise for my ethics class, I had each student write down their top ten commandments of billing in the hope that they would both learn and have these rules in a nice, easy place to find and print once they start practice. As the Ten Commandments was on this past weekend, it seems … Continue reading The Ten Commandments (of Billing)
The Chronicle today ran an article about restorative justice programs on campuses. I paste much of the text of it below. I wonder whether many state Bars have refined their fitness questions and standards to reflect changes in the ways that campuses deal with offenses. Perhaps a good research paper for a law student?… Michael … Continue reading Restorative Justice in the Chronicle of Higher Education
Our media files, including pictures and webcasts of the presentations, is now available. Click here for access to the pictures, videotapes, and podcasts. The written products of the conference will be in the fall issue of the Marquette Law Review.
In 2006 American Board of Neutrals Association (ABNA) incorporated and started accepting applications for membership this January. The organization is geared towards those who have graduate degrees – masters, doctoral, LLM – in the field of Negotiations and Conflict/Alternative Dispute Resolution/Peace Studies. The ABNA’s web site indicates that it is quite an ambitious organization. … Continue reading Birth of a New ADR Organization
Last week, I taught about successive conflicts in my ethics class and there could be no better timing than the Fish & Richardson case to explain the hot potato scenario. The “hot potato doctrine” means that firms are generally prohibited from dropping smaller clients (like hot potatoes) in order to pick up more lucrative clients. … Continue reading Hot Potato Conflicts