New WIP JR. Virtual DR Speaker Series

QUSL and the CDR are establishing a virtual Works-in-Progress workshop for Junior Dispute Resolution Scholars!

Quinnipiac University School of Law (QUSL) and its Center on Dispute Resolution (CDR) are involved in organizing a consortium to establish a virtual Works-in-Progress (WIP) workshop program for Junior DR Scholars. We are pleased to be working with the AALS Section of Dispute Resolution, which for 15 years has sponsored an outstanding annual in-person WIP conference. In addition to the AALS DR Section, this consortium will include the following nationally recognized law school DR programs:

• Arizona State’s Lodestar Dispute Resolution Center

• Cardozo’s Kukin Program for Conflict Resolution

• Marquette’s Dispute Resolution Program

• Maryland’s Center for Dispute Resolution

• Missouri’s Center for the Study of Dispute Resolution

• Mitchell Hamline’s Dispute Resolution Institute

• Ohio State’s Program on Dispute Resolution

• Oregon’s Appropriate Dispute Resolution Center

• Pepperdine’s Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution 

• St. John’s Hugh L. Carey Center for Dispute Resolution

• Texas A&M’s Aggie Dispute Resolution Program

• UNLV’s Saltman Center for Conflict Resolution

We think the audience for these virtual workshops will include not only other DR law faculty, but also DR scholars from all academic disciplines, as well as experienced DR practitioners. Indeed, we may decide to solicit WIPs not only from law school faculty, but also from Junior DR Scholars in other academic disciplines.

In addition, another question we have is how to define “Junior”? 

For example, should it be defined as...

• DR scholars with fewer than 10 years in teaching, whether full or part time, regardless of age; or

• DR faculty under 40, whether tenured or non-tenured; or

• YOU tell us how YOU think we should define "Junior". Email your suggestions to CDR Co-Director Charlie Pillsbury.