"Negotiation for Professional Women"

"Negotiation for Professional Women" is the subject of a May 21, 2018, workshop at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, 500 W. Baltimore Street, Baltimore, MD 21201

Awards for Outstanding ADR Scholarship

Annual awards by the International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution (CPR):

Outstanding Professional Articles:

Winner: StephanieCohen & Mark Morril. “A Call to Cyberarms: The International Arbitrator’s Duty to Avoid Digital Intrusion.” 40 Fordham International Law Journal 981 (2017)

Winner: Art Hinshaw. “Regulating Mediators.” 21 Harvard Negotiation Law Review 163 (2016)

Short Article: Lynn B. Cohn. “A Model for the Use of ADR to Efficiently Distribute a Significant Settlement Fund in Mass Claims Litigation Without Sacrificing an Individualized Assessment of Claims.” 18 Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution 699 (2017)

Joseph T. McLaughlin Original Student Article Award Winner: George Khoukaz. “ADR That is Out of This World: A Regime for the Resolution of Outer-Space Disputes.” Manuscript submitted for publication. Journal of Dispute Resolution (2017)

James Henry Award – The James F. Henry Award, named for CPR’s founder, recognizes “outstanding achievement by individuals for distinguished, sustained contributions to the field of dispute resolution.” Candidates for the award are evaluated for “leadership, innovation and sustaining commitment to the field.”

Winner: Gerald Aksen, Arbitrator & Mediator

Y-ADR Annual Writing Award – The 2018 Y-ADR Annual Writing Award for Efficient & Effective Collaboration Between Corporate Counsel and Outside Counsel was open to lawyers ages 45 or younger or those who have had fewer than eight years of professional experience in alternative dispute resolution (ADR) practice, including, but not limited to, as counsel, client, arbitrator, mediator, tribunal secretary or law clerk. The Y-ADR award is generously funded by Assurant, Inc., GlaxoSmithKline and White & Case LLP.

Winner: AlexanderG. Leventhal, Associate, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP. “Corporate Counsel are from Mars, Outside Counsel Are from Venus: Building a Successful Attorney-Client Relationship through Communication”

International Mediation and Law School Mediation Tournament

The International Academy of Dispute Resolution and Loyola University Chicago School Of Law’s Dispute Resolution Program Present the INADR World Mediation Congress and 17th Annual International Law School Mediation Tournament.

The Congress will take place March 6-7 and will feature speakers and workshops covering all things mediation, highlighted by “The Conflict of Politics and The Politics of Conflict: How to Think About and Respond to Political Conflicts” by Kenneth Cloke.

March 8-10, Loyola University Chicago School of Law will be hosting the mediation tournament with law students from around the world competing and learning about mediation.

Gender and Negotiation

“Gender and Negotiation: What About the Guys?” is the topic of a March 1, 2018, lecture by Marquette University law professor Andrea Schneider. The lecture is at the UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law from 6:00-7:00 p.m.

Opportunity for law students and new lawyers interested in dispute resolution

The American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolution Spring Conference in Washington, D.C., from April 4-7, has a discount available. You must be a law student at an accredited law school or an attorney with less than five years’ experience .

International Commercial Mediation

Realizing Rationality: An Empirical Assessment of International Commercial Mediation, by University of Missouri Law Professor S.I. Strong, is forthcoming in the Washington and Lee Law Review.

The abstract says "Numerous public and private entities have launched initiatives to encourage mediation in international commercial and investment disputes, and the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) has taken up a proposal from the U.S. Government to consider whether a new treaty involving international commercial mediation is warranted."

Professor Strong's article "analyzes findings from the first-ever large-scale empirical study on international commercial mediation, providing hard data about current behaviors, beliefs and practices and testing fundamental theories about the use, nature and future of this particular process."

ADR Perspectives from Global Pound Conference

Pepperdine Law Professor Tom Stipanowich reports on the Kluwer Mediation Blog that

Recently, a series of day-long meetings styled as the Global Pound Conferences, conducted in cities worldwide, offered diverse stakeholders an opportunity to register perspectives on the current state and future of commercial dispute resolution. Each gathering brought together in-house lawyers and clients, external lawyers and consultants, providers of dispute resolution services, educators, government servants and others in order to elicit perspectives and encourage dialogue on dispute resolution, public and private.

Prof. Stipanowich summarizes the conclusions, including "According to Pound participants, efficiency—that is, the time and cost entailed in resolving a dispute outcome—was the most influential factor in choosing among dispute resolution processes (with a 61% ranking for the entire group, and 65% for “parties” (mainly in-house counsel)."

Mediation in Kansas

Advanced Mediation CLE - Mediating in Kansas Federal Court, a Continuing Legal Education program, is Friday, December 1, 2017, at the Kansas Law Center
1200 SW Harrison St., Topeka 66612

Check-in & Continental Breakfast start at 8:15 am. CLE begins at 9:00

Presenters Include:

Larry R. Rute, Associates in Dispute Resolution LLC.,Topeka
Susan Berson, Berson Law Group LLP., Overland Park
Dennis Gillen, Depew Gillen Rathbun & McInteer LC., Wichita
Steve Six, Stueve Siegel Hanson LLP, Kansas City, Mo
Diane H. Sorensen, Morris Laing Evans Brock & Kennedy, Chtd., Wichita
Hon. James O'Hara, Robert J Dole US Courthouse, Kansas City
Teresa J. James, Magistrate Judge, US District Court, District of Kansas, Kansas City
Henry Cox, Henry Cox Law Office, Shawnee

$5000 for Dispute Resolution Research, Competition Open

St. John's University's Hugh L. Carey Center for Dispute Resolution announces the 2018 Mangano Dispute Resolution Advancement Award.

The $5000 annual award recognizes scholars whose published empirical research has furthered the advancement and understanding of the values and skills of dispute resolution.

Mangano Award Nomination Form
All submissions must be received no later than noon EST on Friday, December 8, 2017.

International Mediation

International Commercial Mediation is the subject of Fordham Law School's Dispute Resolution Society Symposium and Continuing Legal Education program, November 16, 2017, 9:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Keynote Speaker
Nadja Alexander, Professor of Law, Singapore Management University; Academic Director, Singapore International Dispute Resolution Academy

Speakers
Guido Carducci, Professor of Law, Université Paris-Est; Arbitrator/Mediator
Ilhyung Lee, Professor of Law, University of Missouri
Deborah Masucci, Co-Chair, International Mediation Institute
Michael Young, Mediator and Arbitrator, JAMS

Advice for Lawyers Representing Parties in Mediation

Lawyers representing parties in mediation often write pre-mediation statements to educate the mediator. Advice on drafting these statements is provided in a recent paper by Cardozo School of Law faculty Donna Erez-Navot and Brian Farkas: First Impressions: Drafting Effective Mediation Statements.

Law Students as Mediators

Law students practice their skills as mediators in the Jeffry S. Abrams National Mediator Competition, which is sponsored by the Blakely Advocacy Institute of the University of Houston Law Center.

1st Amendment on Campus, Dispute Resolution

The First Amendment on Campus is the topic of the University of Missouri's Center for the Study of Dispute Resolution Symposium, sponsored by the University of Missouri School of Law, the Center for the Study of Dispute Resolution, and the Journal of Dispute Resolution.

Speakers include ADR professors

Prof. Lisa Blomgren Amsler
Keller-Runden Professor of Public Service, Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs

Dean Jennifer Gerarda Brown
Dean and Professor of Law
Quinnipiac University School of Law

Prof. Grande Lum
Director, Divided Community Project and Adjunct Professor of Law
The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law

Perceptions of Dominance in Negotiation

A new study concludes that when in a situation—such as a business negotiation— where they might want to be perceived as dominant, people were inclined to select products (like watches) with a wider product design. The study was led by University of Kansas Business professor Ahreum Maeng.

ADR Professors Confer at SEALS

On the indispensable ADR blog Indisputably, John Lande has posted photos of ADR professors working on a book project reconsidering classic dispute resolution articles. This photo includes in the back row Peter Reilly, Erin Archerd, Rishi Batra, Steve Ware, and in the front row Jill Gross, Andrea Schneider, Art Hinshaw, and Sarah Cole.