2023 AALS ADR Works-in-Progress Conference Overview

Since 1998, Quinnipiac University School of Law (QUSL) and The Yale Law School (YLS) have co-sponsored The Quinnipiac-Yale Dispute Resolution Workshop, a speaker series featuring nationally recognized ADR scholars and practitioners. Now, Dean Jennifer Brown and Dean Heather Gerken were pleased to co-host the 2023 AALS ADR Works-in-Progress Conference at QUSL on Friday Oct. and Saturday, Oct. 14 2023.

The partnership between QUSL & YSL, and specifically between QUSL’s Center for Dispute Resolution (QCDR) and YLS’ The Arthur Liman Center for Public Interest Law, is significant for two reasons. It is a model for how two law schools from the same metro area can work together, as we have for 25 years, to promote ADR; and we think it will widen and diversify the audience. Indeed, the program at YLS on Saturday will be designed to showcase junior faculty, as well as other faculty who write in interdisciplinary or ADR-adjacent areas.

QCDR’s partnership with the Liman Center has challenged QCDR to look at ADR through the lens of justice. It is our hope that this conference will challenge us to do the same. We enjoyed having a large in-person audience; and a separate virtual track for those wishing to participate remotely. 

Thank you for a successful event!

One attendee shared…

“This past week I had a chance to present my work and meet the "ADR people" in person at the 16th Annual AALS ADR WIP Conference co-hosted by the Quinnipiac University School of Law and Yale Law School on Oct.13-14. I can't thank enough the AALS Section on ADR and Deans Jennifer Gerarda Brown and Heather Gerken for supporting the conference and bringing it to life! My gratitude also goes to Charlie Pillsbury and Carolyn "Carrie" Kaas for organizing this event! Your attention to details is unbeatable! Have very much enjoyed sharing the floor with the "international folks," i.e. Guillermo J Garcia Sanchez, Jarrod Wong, and Ylli Dautaj!”

 

Please see the special note below from QUSL Dean Jennifer Gerada Brown expressing her gratitude for the events wonderful turnout …

“…join me in thanking our Center on Dispute Resolution – especially Charlie Pillsbury, Carrie Kaas, Brendan Holt, and our student fellows Mark D’Augelli, Aubrey Davis, and Nicole Horen for the incredible hospitality they extended to dozens of academics from across the country (and around the world!) who attended the AALS Section on Dispute Resolution Works in Progress Conference on October 12 – 14.  

Thanks also to several faculty and staff members who joined for all or part of the proceedings and represented our law school ably, including Jennifer Kenter, Gary Phelan, Mark Soboslai, Kim Wright, Kara Perry, Sue Ann Ney, and Bill Logue. Many participants remarked upon the attention to detail shown throughout the planning and execution of this very complex conference.  A mix of plenary and breakout sessions, hybrid participation, and formal as well as informal interactions made the ADR WIP a bear of a conference to organize.

Still, it has been my dream that QUSL would be the host site for this conference before I finish my service as dean. Thanks to Charlie Pillsbury, lead organizer, my dream came true this weekend.  And many, many legal academics were able to experience our law school’s beauty and hospitality in ways that fostered creative, engaged discourse about ADR scholarship.”

This page contains a list of presenters at the 2023 AALS ADR Work-In-Progress (WIP) conference and the titles of their WIPs.

  • “Proposed Guidelines for Arbitral Disclosure of Social Media Activity”

    • Presenters: Bellwood, Leslie & Zamoff, Mitchell

  • “The Enforcement of Arbitration Agreements Involving Indian Tribes”

    • Presenter: Kirgis, Paul

  • “Religious Conflicts in Disguise - The limits of the law in tackling Conflicts with Religious Dimensions”

    • Presenter: Efron, Yael

  •  “Outlawing Corporate Prosecution Deals When People Have Died”

    • Presenter: Reilly, Peter

  •   “Arbitration's Unraveling”

    • Presenter: Gilles, Myriam

  • “Arbitrating Bankruptcies”

    • Presenter: Ware, Steve

  • “Coinbase v. Bielski – More than a Case About Stays for Arbitration Appeals?”

    • Presenter: Blankley, Kristen

  • “Reforming Arbitration Conflict of Interest Rules to Provide Justice and Efficiency”

    • Presenters: Schneider, Andrea K, & Farkas, Brian

  • “State Regulation of Adhesion Arbitration Agreements”

    • Presenter: Aronovsky, Ron

  • “Lawyers Counseling Clients about DR Procedures Early in Litigation Process”

    • Presenter: Shestowsky, Donna

  • “How Can We Stimulate Changes in Legal Curricula?”

    • Presenter: Lande, John

  • “Bespoke ADR Ethics”

    • Presenter: Moffitt, Michael

  • “Shadow Effect of the Federal Rules of Evidence on ADR”

    • Presenter: Wang, Henry

  • “DEI DR Fellowship and Mentorship Program Study“

    • Presenter: Huang, Margaret & Weinstein, Robyn

  • “Losing Explained? Pro se Parties in Mandatory Securities Arbitration”

    • Presenter: Iannarone, Nicole

  • “Arbitrating Sports:  US Professional, Collegiate & Olympic Dispute Resolution”

    • Presenter: Weston, Maureen

  • “Do Arbitrators Have the Authority to Sanction Attorneys Who Engage in Misconduct?”

    • Presenter: Zamoff, Mitchell

  •   “Challenging International Arbitration Awards in Federal Courts”

    • Presenter: Drahozal, Chris, co-authors Donald Childress, Jack Coe & Catherine Rogers

  • “What Matters to Employment Attorneys When Considering Online or In-person Mediation”

    • Presenter: Deb Eisenberg, co-authors Donna Shestowsky & Robert Niccolini

  • “Re-Negotiating LGBTQ Equality”

    • Presenter: Freshman, Clark

  • "Teacher's manual for case book, "Family Dispute Resolution: Process and Practice”

    • Presenter: Browe-Olson, Kelly & Peter, Salem

  • “An Unspoken Truth -The Cost of Muzzling Employees”

    • Presenter: Greenberg, Elayne

  •   “The Conflict Resolution Teacher's Blue Book: Transformational Exercises to Accelerate Learning”

    • Presenter: Pappas, Brian

  • “Remote Mediation and Disabilities Empirical Research”

    • Presenter: White, Nick

  • “Restorative Justice as a Silver Bullet Solution: Tensions and Lessons from Chicago”

    • Presenter: Cohen, Amy

  • “Qualitative Study of Int'l RJ Responses to Sexual Harm: Methodology & Preliminary Results”

    • Presenter: Hopkins, Quince, co-author Cavaletto, April

  • “Beyond the Binary: Restorative Justice for Human Trafficking Victim-Defendants”

    • Presenter: Wechsler, Rachel

  • “Mediation & Project Management”

    • Presenter: Alvarez, Erin 

  • “What Do Mediators Do That Creates Trust”

    • Presenter: Abramowitz, Ava  & Shack, Jennifer

  • “Negotiating Lawyer Well-being”

    • Presenter: Lee, Katrina 

  • “Triaging in Negotiations: What to do when little time to Negotiate”

    • Presenter: Abramson, Hal

  • “EFASASHA's Early Days: Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act”

    • Presenter:  Sperino, Sandra

  • “The Emergence of a Sustainable Legal Permaculture”

    • Presenters: Wright, Kim, co-author, Kaas, Carrie

  • “The Future of Research and Research Dissemination: Podcasts the Next Big Things”

    • Presenter: Egbunike-Umegbolu, Chinwe

  • “The Wisdom of Feelings in Mediating Disputes”

    • Presenter: Colatrella, Michael

  • “Negotiator Resilience, Negotiator Persistence”

    • Presenter: Ebner, Noam

  • “Resuscitating E-Commerce’s Transnational Promise”

    • Presenter: Tiamiyu,  Oladeji

  •   “Bifurcating Foreign Investor Protection”

    • Presenter: Korzun, Vera

  • “Fighting the Fiction of Separate Justices: Int'l & Domestic”

    • Presenters: Parrish, Deanna, co-author, Dicker, Lisa

  • “The Return of the State in Resolving Investment Energy Disputes”

    • Presenter: Garcia Sanchez, Guillermo

  • “Investment Treaty Arbitration from the “Back-Office” and “Back-End”

    • Presenter: Dautaj, Ylli

  • “Transparency, Accountability, and Influence in the International Investment Law System”

    • Presenter: Wong, Jarrod

  • “Dispute Systems Design in a Highly Unstable Future”

    • Presenter: Budish, Sara

  •   “Dispute System Counter-Design”

    • Presenter: Mamo, Andrew

  • “Can Increased Online Processes Improve Justice in our Criminal Legal System”

    • Presenters: Alkon, Cynthia & Schmitz, Amy

  • “Probation without Police: The Manhattan Felony Alternative-to-Incarceration Court”

    • Presenter: Li, Grace

  • “Overcoming Avoidance: A Model for Moving Forward”

    • Presenter: Berstein, Dan

  • “The Paradox of Prevention: Dispute Mitigation by Multilateral Development

    Banks”

    • Presenter: Ali, Shahla