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Understanding Justice Needs: The Elephant in the Courtroom
January 18, 2019
The Hague Institute for Innovation of Law recently released a report entitled, Understanding Justice Needs: The Elephant in the Courtroom. The Institute describes the report as follows: “For the first time, we quantify and pinpoint the yearly need for fair solutions. In this report, we estimate that each year, 1 billion people face a new and serious conflict. They experience violence, stress, loss of work and income or damage to key relationships. Data show that right now, people rely...
January 18, 2019
The Hague Institute for Innovation of Law recently released a report entitled, Understanding Justice Needs: The Elephant in the Courtroom. The Institute describes the report as follows: “For the first time, we quantify and pinpoint the yearly need for fair solutions. In this report, we estimate that each year, 1 billion people face a new and serious conflict. They experience violence, stress, loss of work and income or damage to key relationships. Data show that right now, people rely...
Connecticut Judicial Branch Begins ODR Pilot Program for Eligible Contract Disputes
January 14, 2019
At the beginning of the new year, two Connecticut judicial districts reportedly implemented an online dispute resolution pilot program designed to resolve certain contract disputes without the need for engaging in the judicial process. According to the State of Connecticut Judicial Branch’s website: Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) is a Judicial Branch pilot program available in cases filed on or after January 2, 2019 in the Hartford and New Haven Judicial Districts only...
January 14, 2019
At the beginning of the new year, two Connecticut judicial districts reportedly implemented an online dispute resolution pilot program designed to resolve certain contract disputes without the need for engaging in the judicial process. According to the State of Connecticut Judicial Branch’s website: Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) is a Judicial Branch pilot program available in cases filed on or after January 2, 2019 in the Hartford and New Haven Judicial Districts only...
Does ADR Really Have A Place on the Lawyer’s Philosophical Map?
December 31, 2018
For nearly two decades, proponents of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) have touted the advantages of institutionalizing...
December 31, 2018
For nearly two decades, proponents of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) have touted the advantages of institutionalizing...
Flipping the Classroom to Teach Workplace ADR in an Intensive Environment
December 24, 2018
Professor Martin H. Malin, Director of the Institute for Law and the Workplace at Chicago-Kent College of Law, and Deborah Ginsberg, Educational Technology Librarian at Chicago-Kent Law Library, have published “Flipping the Classroom to Teach Workplace ADR in an Intensive Environment,” 67 Journal of Legal Education618 (2018). In their research paper, the authors explore both the successes and challenges they experienced when utilizing an alternative,...
December 24, 2018
Professor Martin H. Malin, Director of the Institute for Law and the Workplace at Chicago-Kent College of Law, and Deborah Ginsberg, Educational Technology Librarian at Chicago-Kent Law Library, have published “Flipping the Classroom to Teach Workplace ADR in an Intensive Environment,” 67 Journal of Legal Education618 (2018). In their research paper, the authors explore both the successes and challenges they experienced when utilizing an alternative,...
Communication for Online Negotiation
November 27, 2018
People tend to share more information when in person, but in online negotiations, they tend to hold back private information....
November 27, 2018
People tend to share more information when in person, but in online negotiations, they tend to hold back private information....
Institutionalizing ADR: Competing Values Commentary on “Pursuing Settlement in An Adversary Culture: A Tale of Innovation Co-opted or ‘The Law of ADR’”
November 16, 2018
This is the unedited version of a short chapter in the edited collection Discussions in Dispute Resolution, which offers commentaries on the leading foundational articles in the field of Dispute Resolution or “ADR.” This essay responds to commentaries written on Carrie Menkel-Meadow’s “Pursuing Settlement in An Adversary Culture: The Co-optation of Innovation or the Law of ADR,” (1991) and discusses the problems and issues with the institutionalization of various forms of ADR in courts...
November 16, 2018
This is the unedited version of a short chapter in the edited collection Discussions in Dispute Resolution, which offers commentaries on the leading foundational articles in the field of Dispute Resolution or “ADR.” This essay responds to commentaries written on Carrie Menkel-Meadow’s “Pursuing Settlement in An Adversary Culture: The Co-optation of Innovation or the Law of ADR,” (1991) and discusses the problems and issues with the institutionalization of various forms of ADR in courts...
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie Custody Battle Headed to Private Trial
November 11, 2018
From USA Today: The dragging-on divorce and custody battle between Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie is set to go to a trial next month because they can't agree about the future of their six children despite two years of lawyering and leaking. And if Pitt and Jolie have their way, it will all happen behind closed doors. If it happens at all. The couple could still reach an agreement out of court and put the messy breakup of their family behind them but lately their ability to see eye-to-eye seems...
November 11, 2018
From USA Today: The dragging-on divorce and custody battle between Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie is set to go to a trial next month because they can't agree about the future of their six children despite two years of lawyering and leaking. And if Pitt and Jolie have their way, it will all happen behind closed doors. If it happens at all. The couple could still reach an agreement out of court and put the messy breakup of their family behind them but lately their ability to see eye-to-eye seems...
Great ADR Program in Palo Alto Sponsored by the SVAMC!
November 11, 2018
I am honored to be a member of the Silicon Valley Arbitration and Mediation Center Tech-List who was one of the program sponsors, …and it was a great privilege to serve on a Panel about Arbitrating Technology and Patent disputes with Bryan Sinclair from Cisco, Adam Rattray from WIPO, and David Allgeyer at Allgeyer Law & ADR LLC. The half day program on November 7, 2018 was entitled “Advanced Issues in Tech and Patent ADR: Mediating and Arbitrating Disputes” and co-sponsored by SVAMC,...
November 11, 2018
I am honored to be a member of the Silicon Valley Arbitration and Mediation Center Tech-List who was one of the program sponsors, …and it was a great privilege to serve on a Panel about Arbitrating Technology and Patent disputes with Bryan Sinclair from Cisco, Adam Rattray from WIPO, and David Allgeyer at Allgeyer Law & ADR LLC. The half day program on November 7, 2018 was entitled “Advanced Issues in Tech and Patent ADR: Mediating and Arbitrating Disputes” and co-sponsored by SVAMC,...
ACCTM $10K National ADR Law Student Writing Competition
November 9, 2018
The Dispute Resolution Section of the New York State Bar Association and the American College of Civil Trial Mediators are proud...
November 9, 2018
The Dispute Resolution Section of the New York State Bar Association and the American College of Civil Trial Mediators are proud...
Could Blockchain Become The New Standard For Transparency in Investment Arbitration?
November 2, 2018
In a world hurtling through one technological breakthrough after another, we are entering into an exciting new era. In recent contributions to this Blog, blockchain and its potential applications in arbitration have been well-documented by practitioners and early-adopters. However, there is one exceptional feature in blockchain that might be useful in investment arbitration. The notion of transparency was once unfamiliar in international arbitration. Nonetheless, recent regulations have popularized...
November 2, 2018
In a world hurtling through one technological breakthrough after another, we are entering into an exciting new era. In recent contributions to this Blog, blockchain and its potential applications in arbitration have been well-documented by practitioners and early-adopters. However, there is one exceptional feature in blockchain that might be useful in investment arbitration. The notion of transparency was once unfamiliar in international arbitration. Nonetheless, recent regulations have popularized...
