$5000 Prize in Open Competition for ADR Research

St. John's University School of Law's Hugh L. Carey Center for Dispute Resolution awards $5000 each year to scholars "whose published empirical research has furthered the advancement and understanding of the values and skills of dispute resolution."

The Mangano Dispute Resolution Advancement Award Nomination Form

My New Book on Arbitration, Negotiation, Mediation and Other Process of ADR (Alternative Dispute Resolution)

Principles of Alternative Dispute Resolution (3d edition, 2016) is a clear and reliable statement of the law and concepts central to ADR (arbitration, negotiation, mediation, and other processes).

Available from the publisher, West Academic
and on Kindle from Amazon

ADR at Texas A&M School of Law

ADR at Texas A&M School of Law summarized

Cash Prize for Law and Grad Students Writing on Negotiation

The University of Missouri’s Center for the Study of Dispute Resolution and Marquette University’s Dispute Resolution Program are conducting a student writing competition on negotiation.

Ethics of Mediators Appointed by Courts and Bankruptcy Trustees

Saint John's University law professor Elayne Greenberg writes "we have all wondered at times why certain mediators seem to be favored over others and to what degree 'cronyism' and 'patronage' influence mediator selection." This is part of her Ethical Compass article, The Smith Case: Is the Glass Half Full? 

Ohio State Law's ADR Program's "Divided Community" Project

Today, the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law formally announces the Divided Community Project. The Project aims to strengthen community efforts to transform division into action and focuses on how communities can respond constructively to civil unrest as well as on how they can identify and meaningfully address the reasons underlying community division.  Earlier this year the Project published its first publications:

·         Key Considerations for Community Leaders Facing Civil Unrest: Effective Problem-Solving Strategies That Have Been Used in Other Communities, provides background information and expertise for local community leaders to assist and strengthen their effectiveness in responding through collaborative approaches to civil unrest. Key Considerations proposes six suggestions for dealing with the immediate aftermath of a divisive incident and makes two suggestions for longer-term strategies for addressing the causes of conflict.

·         Planning in Advance of Civil Unrest, offers leaders a stepped process to plan in ways that will avert or deal constructively with these divisive community events. Such a plan can help a community deal effectively with community division. Planning in Advance suggests eight strategies whereby communities can tackle division.

Both documents are licensed using the Creative Commons so that (with attribution) they may be copied, shared, adapted and tailored to fit the needs of a community or interest group. 

The Project is pleased to announce that Grande Lum, Gould Research Fellow and Lecturer at Stanford Law and former Director of the Justice Department’s Community Relations Service, has joined Ohio State’s Divided Community Project as the Director. 

ADR Ethics

USC Gould School of Law is hosting its First Annual ADR Symposium on April 15, 2016. The topic is "ADR Ethics"