The University of Missouri is announcing a student writing competition for their Center for the Study of Dispute Resolution. Cribbing now from their announcement:
A student writing competition is being organized in conjunction with the annual symposium convened by the Center for the Study of Dispute Resolution at the University of Missouri School of Law. This year’s symposium is convened by Professor Carli Conklin and is entitled “Beyond the FAA: Arbitration Procedure, Practice, and Policy in Historical Perspective.” The symposium features Professor James Oldham, the St. Thomas More Professor of Law and Legal History at Georgetown University Law Center, as keynote speaker as well as expert panelists from England and the United States.
The competition is sponsored by the Center for the Study of Dispute Resolution and offers a $500 prize to the competition winner. The author of the winning paper may be invited to publish the winning submission in the symposium issue of the Journal of Dispute Resolution, subject to the agreement of both the editors of the Journal of Dispute Resolution and the winning author.
Submissions should bear some relationship to the history of dispute or conflict resolution, broadly defined. Topics may therefore consider issues relating to the historic development of international or domestic negotiation, mediation, conciliation and/or arbitration, among other things. There is no requirement that papers discuss U.S. law. Papers must be received no later than 11:59 p.m., Central time, on Monday, November 9, 2015.
Further information on the writing competition is available on the symposium website.
If I might add a couple of personal observations, this is the perfect place to talk about applied legal history -- in fact, it was Professor Oldham's article in the Law and History Review back in February 2013 that started their occasional series on "applied legal history." Second, I think there's a lot one could write about here -- I should imagine a lot of work on the history of transitional justice would fit here; and certainly work on one of my favorite figures from American legal history, Francis Daniel Pastorius, whose Young Country Clerk's Collection had forms for arbitration of disputes but none for civil suits.
From a historical perspective, isn't the entire civil justice system a form of alternative dispute resolution?
Posted by: Derek Tokaz | October 06, 2015 at 02:46 PM