Association of American Law Schools
2003 Annual Meeting
Washington, D.C.
Thursday, January 2 - Sunday, January 5, 2003

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RAISING THE BAR AND ENLARGING THE CANON

• Why Attend?
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Why Attend

Since the first AALS dispute resolution workshop in 1982, the field has blossomed in ways that few of us could have predicted or fully understand. The workshop is meant to help us focus on past, present, and future evolution of our work as teachers, scholars, and practitioners of dispute resolution. In the first plenary session, we explore the modern history of dispute resolution in the law and in law schools, including perspectives from social sciences; in the second, we look at possible new initiatives, such as emphases on emotions, mindfulness, and culture; in the wrap up session, Frank Sander of Harvard will talk about “What’s Next?” Eric Green of Boston University, the luncheon speaker, will talk about “Lessons Learned from High-Visibility Cases,” based on his experience mediating the Microsoft antitrust case and other well-known matters.

The workshop also features two blocks of concurrent sessions—over 20 in all—dealing with scholarship, practice, and teaching issues on a wide-range of topics, including Procedural and Social Justice, Teaching Law in ADR Courses, Conducting and Using Empirical Research, Dispute System Design, Building Community, Multi-Party Dispute Resolution, Arbitration Pedagogy, the Comprehensive Law Movement, and Conflict Theory.