For many years, the New Jersey Court Rules have empowered certain judges to issue Orders of Referral to Mediation. Administered by the state's Administrative Office of the Courts, the New Jersey mediation program was way ahead of its time and has prompted tens of thousands of civil mediations. The program is about...
Thanks to Paul Lurie's remarkable list-serve, we have a draft of Tom Stipanowich's paper from the 2010 Fordham Conference, titled "Revelation and Reaction: The Struggle to Shape American Arbitration." Concentrating on two of what Stipanowich predicts with be a new "trilogy" of formative Supreme Court arbitration decisions, Stipanowich places both Stolt-Neilsen v....
Here's an Arbitration Agreement (?) that ADR Prof Blog tells us was taped to the front door of a Whataburger fast-food restaurant: Words sometimes just fail.... (Those wanting to know more about arbitration with the American Mediation Association can click...
Over the past years, many of us have been impressed by the limitations of both institutional dispute resolution systems (i.e., courts) and their alternatives (i.e., arbitration and mediation). At the same time, I've been increasingly drawn to examples found in certain societies whose shared spiritual beliefs have produced systems of dispute resolution that...
Fellow blogger Victoria Pynchon has been kind enough to send me a copy of her new book -- made extra-collectible by her handwritten inscription inside! She has unfortunately used a vulgarity in naming the volume, but the subtitle, The Grownups' ABCs of Conflict Resolution, gives a good sense of its...