On Friday, November 5, 2021, Fernando Navarro and Disputing blog’s own Karl Bayer will be moderating the International Academy of Mediators’ (IAM) “Mediation 2021: Where Do We Go from Here? – The Americas” symposium. 

The problem with chickens and eggs isn’t which one comes first.  It’s that that neither comes at all. 

Jean R. Sternlight, Founding Director of the Saltman Center for Conflict Resolution and Michael and Sonja Saltman Professor of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas William S. Boyd School of Law, and Jennifer K. Robbennolt, Associate Dean for Research, Alice Curtis Campbell Professor of Law, Professor of Psychology, and Co-Director at the Illinois Program on Law, Behavior and Social Science at the University of Illinois, have published “High-Tech Dispute Resolution: Lessons from Psychology for a Post-Covid-19 Era,” DePaul Law Review, Forthcoming.

Kristen Blankley, Professor of Law at the University of Nebraska College of Law, Ashley M. Votruba, Assistant Professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Logen Bartz, Graduate Student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and Lisa PytlikZillig, Research Associate Professor at the University of Nebraska Public Policy Center, have published “ADR is Not a Household Term: Considering the Ethical and Practical Consequences of the Public’s Lack of Understanding of Mediation and Arbitration,” Nebraska Law Review, Vol. 99, No. 797, 2021. 

The United States Supreme Court has reportedly denied a petition asking the court to consider whether an arbitration agreement precludes a wrongful death claim against a nursing home.

Professor E. H. Morreim, University of Tennessee Health Science Center- College of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, has published a timely article entitled, In-House Conflict Resolution Processes: Health Lawyers as Problem-Solvers, The Health Lawyer 2014; 25(3): 10-14.