The University of Missouri School of Law Center for the Study of Dispute Resolution is holding an Alternative Dispute Resolution and the Rule of Law symposium today in cooperation with the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution and the Missouri Center for the Study of Conflict, Law & the Media. The symposium is the first of its kind to examine the relationship between the Alternative Dispute Resolution and the Rule of Law: On the face of it, the R

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The April 2010 edition of the ABA Journal features: “International Arbitration Loses Its Grip” by Steven Seidenberg. The article argues that international arbitration is starting to become as expensive and time consuming as litigation in U.S. Courts. Here is an excerpt: Arbitration was supposed to be the solution for international companies seeking to resolve disputes without expensive and drawn-out court battles. But it is starting t

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Mark your calendars! the ABA Section of the Dispute Resolution’s 12th Annual Spring Conference is just around the corner: Section of Dispute Resolution Spring Conference April 8 – 10, 2010 Hyatt Regency Embarcadero San Francisco, CA To view the conference website, click here. To download the conference brochure and registration form, click here. Karl will be attending the conference and will be happy to meet you! please let us know if

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By Holly Hayes Richard J. Webb, a guest-blogger on Disputing and author of the Healthcare Neutral ADR Blog, featured last week an excellent post on how the health care reform debate would look if it was mediated. Here is an excerpt: …. Leaving aside all of the ways in which the healthcare reform debate does not resemble the setting required for effective mediation, I began to imagine what I would do if thrust into a room with a commitment f

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The following is an excerpt from “Complex Patent Suits: The Use of Special Masters for Claim Construction” by Neil A. Smith published at Landslide by the ABA Section of Intellectual Property Law. When a complex patent infringement case arises, it can be in the client’s or the court’s best interest to bring in an expert on patent law and technology—as a special master—to assist the judge. Special masters can provide value to all partie

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The ABA Section of Dispute Resolution is seeking three-minute original videos on the topic of mediation. The contest is open to everyone. Videos may be submitted between November 12, 2009 and January 15, 2010. Incomplete submissions will be disqualified. To be considered a complete submission the Contest Entry Form and an ABA Release Form for each person in the video must be received by the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution by midnight January 15

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As a future computer scientist, it is hard not to write about the most recent issue of Landslide, published by the ABA Section of Intellectual Property Law. The magazine contains an excellent article by Mark V. B. Partridge and Scott T. Lonardo. The authors discuss ICANN‘s recent developments in the Internet domain name system: Domain Name Tasting. In order to decrease the practice of domain name tasting, ICANN has adopted a new policy to l

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