Jean R. Sternlight, Founding Director of the Saltman Center for Conflict Resolution and Michael and Sonja Saltman Professor of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas William S. Boyd School of Law, and Jennifer K. Robbennolt, Associate Dean for Research, Alice Curtis Campbell Professor of Law, Professor of Psychology, and Co-Director at the Illinois Program on Law, Behavior and Social Science at the University of Illinois, have published “High-Tech Dispute Resolution: Lessons from Psychology for a Post-Covid-19 Era,” DePaul Law Review, Forthcoming.

Kristen Blankley, Professor of Law at the University of Nebraska College of Law, Ashley M. Votruba, Assistant Professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Logen Bartz, Graduate Student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and Lisa PytlikZillig, Research Associate Professor at the University of Nebraska Public Policy Center, have published “ADR is Not a Household Term: Considering the Ethical and Practical Consequences of the Public’s Lack of Understanding of Mediation and Arbitration,” Nebraska Law Review, Vol. 99, No. 797, 2021. 

The National Academy of Distinguished Neutrals (“NADN”) recently conducted an online national survey of its members.

Kristen Blankley, Professor of Law at the University of Nebraska College of Law, has written a terrific article titled, “Standing On Its Own Shoulders: The Supreme Court’s Statutory Interpretation of the Federal Arbitration Act,” Akron Law Review, Forthcoming. 

A state appeals court has ruled a nursing home’s arbitration is void in part because its language is “dense and meandering,” which prevented a meeting of the minds. 

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) has issued a final rule allowing the use of pre-dispute, binding arbitration agreements by nursing homes across the United States.