Section on Alternative Dispute Resolution

2025

• Alternative Dispute Resolution Main Program, Co-Sponsored by For the Law School Dean, Leadership, and Student Services

2024

• Main Program
• Law and Sports (Co-Sponsored by Alternative Dispute Resolution)

2023

• Main Program
• Employment Discrimination Law (Co-Sponsored by Alternative Dispute Resolution, Contracts, and Labor Relations and Employment Law)

2022

• Main Program
• Section on Commercial and Consumer Law (Co-Sponsored by Alternative Dispute Resolution)

2021

• Main Program

2020

• Main Program
• Contracts (Co-sponsored by Alternative Dispute Resolution)
• Professional Responsibility (Co-sponsored by Alternative Dispute Resolution)

2019

• Main Program
• Litigation (Co-sponsored by Alternative Dispute Resolution)

Section of the Year

2024 Winner
2019 Winner

Best Scholarly Article Award

The AALS ADR Section annually selects an article that makes a significant contribution to the field of dispute resolution and reflects excellent scholarly analysis and writing.

This award recognizes the best dispute resolution article published in a law review or other academic journal, in print or online, from the previous calendar year. Authors may self-nominate their work. Only one single article will be considered by any given author. Thus, if an author is nominated for more than one article (by several different nominators, for example), the author will be contacted by competition administrators so that they can decide which article will be considered by the judging committee. Please note that co-authored articles are less restricted-an author could have one “single author” article considered by the judging committee along with one or more articles co-authored with others. The following works are ineligible: (1) books and book chapters; (2) any works-in-progress; (3) any publication not bearing a 2023 volume date; and (4) any publication written while the author was a student.

New Voices in Dispute Resolution

The AALS Section of Dispute Resolution announces the New Voices in Dispute Resolution program that pairs a “new voice” with a distinguished mentor. The program involves year-long mentoring on a paper or project, culminating with the mentor hosting the new scholar in a hybrid event consisting of an in-person talk at the mentor’s own institution with a invitation to the DR community to attend virtually.

Applicants for the New Voices in Dispute Resolution program should have less than six years of teaching or research experience at a college or university, in any field. Tenure-track faculty as well as scholars who are employed through visiting and long-term contracts are eligible. We will give priority to pre-tenure candidates.

Applications should include a 1) letter (one single-spaced page maximum) addressed the chair of the AALS Section on Alternative Dispute Resolution, that describes your interest in the mentorship offered by the program and explains how you meet the New Voices criteria and a 2) proposal/project description (one single-spaced page maximum) for the academic project for which you would like mentorship. Please create a single word document or PDF for these two items and email your combined file to the section chair. Applications are due in August.

Recipients

DRI Skills Lab