The Carey Center provides a forum for the investigation of
dispute resolution processes through academic conferences,
symposia, and workshops. A sample of our recent programs
includes:
ADR in the Spotlight: Len
Riskin; Pyett Panel Discussion
As part of its ADR in the Spotlight series, the Carey Center
will host two events on November 9, 2009. First, Professor
Len Riskin, the Chesterfield Smith Professor of Law at the
University of Florida Levin College of Law, will address the St.
John's law faculty in a luncheon colloquium discussing his recent
work on mindfulness. That afternoon, the Carey Center will
host a panel discussion on the recent Supreme Court decision in 14
Penn Plaza v. Pyett. The panel will feature the advocates who
argued the case before the Supreme Court and will be moderated by
noted labor law scholar Gary Minda, Professor of Law at Brooklyn
Law School.
ADR Meets Bankruptcy:
Cross-Purposes or Cross-Pollination?
On October 2, 2009, the Hugh L. Carey Center for Dispute
Resolution , in conjunction with the American Bankruptcy Institute
Law Review and the Bankruptcy Policy Institute of St. John’s
University School of Law, hosted a conference exploring the
relationship between alternative dispute resolution and bankruptcy
entitled “ADR Meets Bankruptcy: Cross-Purposes or
Cross-Pollination?”. As the cost of formal adjudicative
process has continued to climb, alternative dispute resolution has
become an increasingly important part of the legal
landscape. At the same time, economic disruptions have given a
new primacy to bankruptcy, as companies and individuals struggle
under unprecedented debt obligations. Inevitably, ADR is
becoming more prevalent within existing bankruptcy
structures. Bankruptcy courts use mediation in a variety of
contexts, and face difficult issues about the application of
arbitration agreements in the contracts of creditors and
debtors.
This ground-breaking conference brought together prominent
scholars from the fields of ADR and bankruptcy to investigate the
ways that mediation and arbitration intersect with bankruptcy.
Drawing on the different perspectives that scholars from each field
bring, the conference provided an opportunity for discussion to
stimulate new approaches in both ADR and bankruptcy. A panel
on Mediation in Bankruptcy featured Judge Elizabeth Stong, Ralph
Peeples, Nancy Welsh, and Bill Woodward. A panel on
Arbitration in Bankruptcy featured Alan Resnick, Steve Ware,
Marianne Culhane, and Paul Kirgis.
The conference papers will be published in a dedicated issue of
the American Bankruptcy Institute Law Review.