At the 15th annual AALS Alternative Dispute Resolution Section’s Works-in-Progress Conference held October 7-8, 2022 at the University of Oregon, several members of Texas A&M Law’s Dispute Resolution Program presented draft papers. Professor Cynthia Alkon presented on Negotiation Theory and Hybrid Warfare (also the topic of her then-upcoming presentation at the Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution’s annual Melnick Symposium in November).  Professor Michael Green delved into civil procedure and the legislative history of the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act as he discussed Arbitrating Claims of Racial Discrimination or Racial Harassment.  Professor Guillermo Garcia reported his findings from a close examination of Latin American nations’ experience with international investment treaty arbitration in Who Foots the Bill for Energy Investment Disputes?  And Professor and Program Director Nancy Welsh continued her examination of the relationship between dispute resolution and our courts in two presentations: Lawyers’ Court-Connected Negotiation: The “New Mediation?” (co-authored with Donna Shestowsky) and Expedited Enforcement of Negotiated and Mediated Settlements: Potential for the Abuse of State Power. 

In the September 29, 2022 episode of The Mediate.com Podcast, host and mediator Veronica Cravener talks with Professor Nancy Welsh about both procedural justice and data collection in court-connected mediation. You can find the episode here.

On August 31, 2022, Professor Guillermo Garcia Sanchez was interviewed by El Financiero-Bloomberg in Mexico for the 6pm news. He spoke on the current U.S.-Mexico energy dispute and the start of former consultations under the USMCA. See the interview here.

On August 25, 2022, Inside U.S. Trade published a story on the U.S.-Mexico energy dispute that featured Professor Guillermo Garcia Sanchez’s observations regarding consultations between the U.S. and Mexico over Mexico’s energy policies. See Margaret Spiegelman, “Top U.S., Mexican Officials To Meet Next Month Amid Energy Row,” Inside U.S. Trade’s World Trade Online, August 25, 2022

In August 2022, Adjunct Professor Karen Washington was elected by the Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) Board of Directors to serve a three-year term as a hearing official on the DART Trial Board. Professor Washington will be one of nine hearing officials who sit on the Trial Board.  

Professor Cynthia Alkon conducted a Plea Bargaining Skills Training for the Florida Criminal Defense Lawyers Association in Fort Lauderdale, FL on July 18, 2022.

On July 8-9, 2022, in Montreal, Quebec, Professors Nancy Welsh and Cynthia Alkon participated by invitation in a meeting of Project Seshat, exploring the potential relationship between the phenomenon of gray zone conflict (also known as hybrid warfare) and the theory and practice of dispute resolution.

On June 28, 2022, Professor Nancy Welsh made a keynote presentation entitled “How Are We Really Doing?  Defining and Evaluating ADR Outcomes” at the annual meeting of the Arizona Bar Association in Phoenix, Arizona.

In May, 2022, Adjunct Professor Karen Washington was elected to Fellowship in the College of Commercial Arbitrators, joining just 24 others in the state of Texas (only six of whom were women).  The Fellows of CCA are described as “the elite within the profession of commercial arbitration.” They have satisfied rigorous admission requirements demonstrating they possess the professional training, judgment, and years of experience to undertake the most complex and difficult commercial arbitration assignments.

Professor Guillermo Garcia Sanchez presented by invitation to the American Society of International Law at its April 7, 2022 Annual Meeting as part of the Junior International Law Scholars Association panel.

At the annual symposium of the SMU Mission Foods Texas-Mexico Center, held on April 5, 2022, Professor Guillermo Garcia Sanchez presented his work on U.S.-Mexico energy integration and the sector’s paths to resolve disputes. Audience members included investors as well as the Texas Secretary of State and both the Mayor and Mexican Consul General of Dallas.

Professor Cynthia Alkon co-organized and presented at the Stetson Law Review’s annual symposium on April 1, 2022, focusing on “Remote Dispute Resolution and Issues of Justice.”

Professor Michael Green presented at the Pepperdine Dispute Resolution Law Journal’s annual symposium on April 1, 2022, as part of a panel on “Innovative ADR Approaches to Policy Challenges” (virtual program).

On April 1, 2022, Adjunct Professor Danielle Hargrove presented as part of a panel addressing “Complex Disputes: Multiparty Negotiations, Labor, and Class Actions” at the Harvard Negotiation Law Review’s 2022 symposium.

Professor Guillermo Garcia Sanchez presented at the University of Maastricht on March 24, 2022, at the International Arbitration Seminar, with Evan Chan, Skadden Arps LLP, and Bas Van Zelst, Van Doorne LLP.

Professor Michael Green presented his paper, “The Racial Rhythm and Blues of Reforming Police Arbitrations,” at the Case Western Reserve University Law Review Symposium: Black Transcends Blue: The Intractable Presence of Race in American Policing, on Friday, March 18, 2022 in Cleveland, Ohio.

Professor Carol Pauli proposed human dignity as a baseline value for neutrals in both mediation and news media at the Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution’s Melnick 2022 symposium on the “Death and Resurrection of Dialogue” held in New York City on March 11, 2022.

Professor Guillermo Garcia Sanchez presented his research at the Trade Agreements and Sustainability Workshop at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law on March 3-5, 2022.

Professor Michael Green presented “The Racial Rhythm & Blues of Reforming Police Arbitrations” for the Quinnipiac-Yale Dispute Resolution Workshop on February 18, 2022.

On February 14, 2022, Professor Guillermo Garcia Sanchez participated by invitation in the webinar The Risk of Constitutional Reform for the Energy Sector: Crippling Mexico’s Future? co-sponsored by the Center for Energy Studies and Center for U.S. and Mexico, Baker Institute at Rice University (online due to COVID-19).

Professor Guillermo Garcia Sanchez was selected to present his draft article, “In the Name of Energy Sovereignty,” at the February 4, 2022 works-in-progress program entitled New Voices in Dispute Resolution and sponsored by the Dispute Resolution Works-in-Progress Consortium, with comments by Professor Jason Yackee, Wisconsin Law School (online due to COVID-19).

Professor Guillermo Garcia Sanchez presented by invitation at the January 27, 2022 WilmerHale LLP and Clark Hill LLP webinar USMCA Tools to Protect Foreign Investment in Light of Mexico’s New Energy Policies, with WilmerHale Partner Danielle Morris and Special Counsel Lauren Mandell (online due to COVID-19).

On January 14, 2022, Professor Guillermo Garcia Sanchez presented “In the Name of Energy Sovereignty” at the Junior International Law Scholars Association Annual Meeting, held at the University of Miami School of Law (online due to COVID-19).

Professor Michael Green AALS spoke on a panel on “Marginalized Procedure” sponsored by the Civil Procedure and Poverty Sections of the Association of American Law Schools at the organization’s annual meeting on January 8, 2022.

Professor Cynthia Alkon presented as part of a plea bargaining panel for the organization, Fair & Just Prosecution, in Los Angeles, CA, on December 10, 2021.

Professor Guillermo Garcia Sanchez presented on December 8, 2021 to the American Chamber of Commerce Mexico, as part of the panel Constitutional reform in the energy sector: environmental, economic, and trade impacts between the U.S. and Mexico (online due to COVID-19).

Professor Cynthia Alkon participated in two panels on problem-solving courts – one looking at their status today and another looking at the future of these courts - as part of the Practicing Law Institute program, Mental Health Issues & the New York State Courts, 2021: Problem Solving Courts, in New York, NY on December 3, 2021.

Professor Cynthia Alkon conducted a Plea Bargaining Skills Training for the Federal Defenders in Seattle, Washington on November 30, 2021.

Professor Guillermo Garcia Sanchez presented at the International Energy Summit Mexico, as part of a panel on "The 4T new energy policies, how will they impact Mexico's energy transition"  on November 25, 2021.  https://encuentroenergia.mx/programa-2021/

On November 23, 2021, Professor Garcia Sanchez presented on a panel - "Review of the impact that of the measures taken in the energy sector by the Mexican Government" - at a program sponsored by the International Chamber of Commerce Mexico.

Professor Guillermo Garcia Sanchez presented on November 19, 2021, as part of a conference sponsored by CLIP and Tec de Monterrey - "Intellectual Property, Energy and Investment: A Comparative Exploration across Mexico-U.S. Borders” – on a panel addressing “Energy and Natural Resources.  https://law.tamu.edu/docs/default-source/clip/tamutec21-agenda.pdf

Professor Cynthia Alkon, with Professor Andrea Schneider, participated in a book discussion on Negotiating Crime at Marquette University School of Law on November 16, 2021.

Professor Cynthia Alkon presented “Criminal Court System Failures During COVID-19: An Empirical Study” at a faculty workshop at Marquette University School of Law on November 16, 2021.

Professor Michael Green presented on “Recognizing Racial Narratives and Tropes in Workplace Dispute Resolution Advocacy” at the Fifteenth Annual Meeting of the ABA Section of Labor and Employment Law  as part of a panel on “Using ‘The Danger of a Single Story’ to Inform and Shape Ethical Conduct,” in Los Angeles, California on November 13, 2021.

Professor Guillermo Garcia Sanchez presented his paper “In the Name of Energy Sovereignty” on November 11 at the American Society of International Law Mid-Year Research Forum, as part of a panel addressing "Evolution of Economic Agreements." https://www.asil.org/midyear-meeting

Professor Cynthia Alkon was a panelist, addressing “Are Coercive Plea Bargains Driving Mass Incarceration?” at the Texas A&M School of Law, in a program co-sponsored by the Criminal Law Society & the Federalist Society on November 9, 2021.

On November 8, 2021, Professor Cynthia Alkon spoke to the Dallas Bar Association on negotiation and dispute resolution in criminal cases.

On November 2-3, 2021, Professors Guillermo Garcia Sanchez and Michael Z. Green presented research on the “Domestic Arbitration” and “International Arbitration” panels that were part of the Improving Diversity in Arbitration Virtual Conference, sponsored by Texas A&M University School of Law, Stanford Law School, Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, Center for Alternative Dispute Resolution, and Arbitrate.com. https://info.law.tamu.edu/diversity-in-arbitration

Professor Garcia Sanchez organized and presented on the panel, “Investment Law and the Future of International Energy Governance” as part of the International Law Association American Branch’s International Law Weekend, October 29, 2021 (online due to COVID-19).

Professor Guillermo Garcia Sanchez participated by invitation in the panel "Impacts and Consequences of Mexico's proposed electricity reform" sponsored by the Center for Energy Studies and the U.S.-Mexico Forum, Baker Institute at Rice University on October 18, 2021. 

Professor Michael Green presented “Anti-Critical Race Workplace Training” at the Sixteenth Annual Colloquium on Scholarship in Employment and Labor Law at Vanderbilt University School of Law, Nashville, Tennessee, on October 16, 2021 (virtual program).

Professor Guillermo Garcia Sanchez participated by invitation with Ambassadors Christopher Landau and Geronimo Gutierrez in the October 13, 2021 panel "What Can and Cannot Be Done: Agreements that Frame the U.S.-Mexico Relationship" sponsored by the Center for the United States and Mexico, Baker Institute at Rice University.  https://www.bakerinstitute.org/events/2252/

Professor Michael Green presented “Reforming Police Arbitration as Racial Justice” on October 8, 2021 at the Fourteenth Annual AALS ADR Works in Progress Conference held at Pepperdine Law School and hosted by the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution in Malibu, California, (hybrid/virtual program).

Professor Guillermo Garcia Sanchez presented research on the “Current Status of U.S.-Mexico Agreements” on September 30, 2021 for the 2021 Seminar of the Center for Binational Institutions of the U.S.-Mexico Foundation.  https://www.usmexcbi.org/seminar

On September 30, 2021, Professor Cynthia Alkon joined the Massachusetts Bar Association’s Criminal Justice Section Working Group on “Re-Imagining District Court” to discuss possible statewide reforms the group could recommend in Massachusetts.  The Working Group includes prosecutors, judges, defense lawyers and social workers. Among the questions they are discussing is how to increase the use of dispute resolution processes, such as mediation and restorative justice, in criminal case processing.

Professor Michael Green presented “Alpha Legal Scholars on Critical Race Theory” at Wake Forest Law School in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, on September 11, 2021 (virtual program).

Professor Michael Green presented “Legal Ramifications Being Raised in Challenges to ‘Critical Race Theory’ in Diversity Trainings” at the Fort Worth HR August Legal Update Hour in Fort Worth, Texas on August 18, 2021.

Professor Garcia Sanchez presented his draft article, In the Name of Energy Sovereignty, at Boston College Law School, as part of the Junior International Law Scholars Association Summer Workshop, July 26, 2021 (online due to COVID-19).

Professor Michael Green presented to the Southwest Region of the National Academy of Arbitrators on “Arbitrator Training on Evidence Rulings” on July 15, 2021 in Fort Worth, Texas (virtual program).

Professor Garcia Sanchez was invited to present research on energy integration, as part of a panel entitled The Talos-Zama-Pemex dispute and its international legal implications for Inteli Iuris’ Webinar Series on July 14, 2021 (in Spanish and online due to COVID-19).

Professor Garcia Sanchez participated by invitation in the Energy Scholars Workshop and presented his draft article, In the Name of Energy Sovereignty, at the University of Colorado Law School, June 28-29, 2021 (online due to COVID-19).

Professor Michael Green was a presenter on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Training and the “Critical Race” Legal Challenges at a meeting of the Fort Worth Human Resources Professional Emphasis Group, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, in Fort Worth, Texas on June 25, 2021 (virtual program).

Professor Michael Green presented and served as a commentator on “Arbitrator Diversity” and “Tips for Embracing Diversity in Selecting Neutrals for Labor and Employment Disputes” at the Labor Employment Relations Association’s 73rd Annual Program on June 5, 2021 (virtual program).

Professors Cynthia Alkon & Andrea Kupfer Schneider wrote the article, “How to be a Better Plea Bargainer,” in the Washington University Journal  of Law & Policy. The article discusses the importance of preparation and introduces their original plea negotiation preparation sheet to aid both prosecutors and defense lawyers in preparing for negotiating plea bargains.

The Aggie Dispute Resolution Program is very well-represented in a book that was published by Oxford University Press. Professors Cynthia Alkon, Michael Green, Carol Pauli, Peter Reilly, and Nancy Welsh have all authored chapters that will be part Discussions in Dispute Resolution, co-edited by Art Hinshaw, Sarah Cole and Andrea Schneider. More information on the book can be found here.

Professor Cynthia Alkon was part of a panel discussion at the April 2021 ABA Dispute Resolution Section Annual Conference entitled "Is Remote Justice Remote?”  Professor Alkon discussed her findings about how plea bargaining is working (or not) during the pandemic based on a recent nationwide survey of legal professionals.

Professor Nancy Welsh presented at a workshop entitled “The Today and Tomorrow of ADR Research” on April 17, 2021, as part of the Legal Educator’s Colloquium at the ABA Dispute Resolution Section’s Annual Conference.  Her focus was on the need for the regular collection of data regarding courts’ use and the effects of all dispute resolution procedures.

On April 16, 2021, Professor Michael Green presented at the University of Idaho Law School’s Critical Legal Studies Journal’s 2021 symposium titled “The Future of Work in a Post-Pandemic America.”  He presented on “Negotiating COVID Workplace Safety: America Worked Best When You Said Union Yes.”  He discussed how various worker groups had difficult negotiations with their employers in navigating the best workplace safety protections during the pandemic and how and why those represented by unions fared better in such negotiations.

On April 10, 2021, Texas A&M 2Ls Taylor Garner and Isabelle Chapman won the national championship of the ABA Representation in Mediation competition, beating all of the other regional champions from across the nation.  The team was coached by Adjunct Professor Kay Elliott, and other members of the Dispute Resolution Program coached and served as judges in the regional or national competitions.

Professor Garcia Sanchez presented research on energy integration, by invitation, as part of a panel entitled North America: Energy Overview and Challenges Ahead at the Annual Symposium of SMU Mission Foods Texas-Mexico Center, April 9, 2021 (online due to COVID-19).

Professor Cynthia Alkon presented her paper, “Bargaining without Bias,” on April 9, 2021 at the Rutgers University Law Review Symposium entitled “Prosecutors, Power, and Racial Injustice: Building an Anti-Racist Prosecutorial System.”  Her paper will be published in the Law Review’s symposium issue, due out later in 2021.

A March 12, 2021 Forbes article, “How Many Negotiation Books Have Been Written By Women?,” featured the book co-authored by Professors Cynthia Alkon and Andrea Schneider, Negotiating Crime: Plea Bargaining, Problem Solving and Dispute Resolution in the Criminal Context. Their book came in at #21 on the list.

Professor Garcia Sanchez was invited to present research on energy integration, on a panel entitled The new energy policy and its impact on Mexico’s international commitments for the Inteli Iuris Webinar Series on March 11, 2021 (in Spanish and online due to COVID-19).

Professor Garcia Sanchez presented by invitation to the Federalist Society Chapter at SMU Deadman School of Law on March 9, 2021.  He presented research on energy integration, and his lecture was titled Powerless: What Happened to the Texas Energy Grid (online due to COVID-19).

On March 6-7, 2021, Texas A&M University School of Law hosted the regional ABA Representation in Mediation Competition, and Texas A&M 2Ls Taylor Garner and Isabelle Chapman were named regional champions.  The team was coached by Adjunct Professor Kay Elliott.

On March 6, 2021, Texas A&M 3L Maya Fitzpatrick and 2L Tyler Phillips won the BLSA Nelson Mandela International Negotiation Competition.  These International Champions were coached by Adjunct Professor Kay Elliott.

In February, 2021, Professor Nancy Welsh was one of three Texas A&M University faculty selected for the 2021 University Professorship award.  University Professorships recognize faculty who have demonstrated significant and sustained accomplishments in their discipline and who have gained recognition both nationally and internationally. The award also acknowledges a commitment to inclusivity and diversity and excellence in teaching and service.

On February 26, 2021, Professor Peter Reilly assisted in the coaching of Tyler Phillips ’22 and Maya Fitzpatrick ’21 to help them prepare for the National Nelson Mandela BLSA Negotiation Competition. (On a very happy note, Phillips and Fitzpatrick won the competition and are now the International Champions of the competition—see here).

On February 17 and again on February 18, 2021, Professor Guillermo Garcia was interviewed for Bloomberg's TV news in Mexico (El Financiero-Bloomberg News). He discussed the power blackout in Texas, Governor Abbott’s order banning out-of-state gas exports, the impact of the blackout and ban on the Mexican grid, the state of U.S.-Mexico energy relations, and the remedies available under the USMCA to foreign investors affected by Mexico's policies. The interview was live and aired by the major cable providers in Mexico.

On February 12, 2021, Professor Nancy Welsh moderated (and Texas A&M University hosted) the second session of the Dispute Resolution Works-in-Progress Consortium Series: Discovering New Voices in Dispute Resolution.  The session featured papers by Laura Frase, Assistant Professor, UNT Dallas College of Law

(“Refining Our Thinking About Thinking: Battling the Sway of Cognitive Biases in Negotiation”) and Mohammad Hamdy, Visiting Assistant Professor, Tulane University School of Law (“(De)Fragmentation in International Investment Arbitration: Harmonization as a Stabilizer of the Case Law”).

On January 30, 2021, Professor Peter Reilly co-taught a class on negotiation with Professor Bob Probasco for the Law School’s Tax Dispute Resolution Clinic. Information on the Clinic can be found here.

In January, 2021, Professor Michael Green will present on “Attacking Employers Who Offer Critical Race Training” at the Association of American Law Schools’ Annual Meeting, as part of the Employment Discrimination Section’s program on “The Trump Administration’s Divisive & Derogatory Rhetoric and How it has Affected Anti-Discrimination and Anti-Harassment Enforcement in the Workplace.”

On December 21, 2020, Professor Peter Reilly distributed the most recent edition of ADR Scholarship Projects to dispute resolution listservs. Professor Reilly created ADR Scholarship Projects and currently solicits short descriptions of scholarship-in-progress, edits the document and distributes it within the academic dispute resolution community. The Winter 2020 edition can be found here.

Professor Garcia Sanchez gave a lecture - The USMCA and the Integration of Energy Sectors – as part of the Master of Science in Energy Lecture Series at the Texas A&M Energy Institute on December 2, 2020 (online due to COVID-19)

Professor Garcia Sanchez presented his research on the USMCA Energy Chapter on November 13, 2020, at the North American Consortium on Legal Education Annual Conference entitled USMCA, Energy, Environment, and Health Challenges: A Legal Context in the Complex Times of COVID-19 – sponsored by the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law and the Center for U.S. and Mexican law at the University of Houston Law Center (online due to COVID-19).

On November 13, 2020, Professor Michael Green will moderate and speak on “Police Officer Discipline: Suggested 2020 Best Practices” at a plenary session of the ABA Section of Labor and Employment Law’s virtual program held via Zoom, Chicago, Illinois.

In October, 2020, Professor Nancy Welsh was elected to the American Law Institute (ALI).  ALI is a private, independent, nonprofit organization that publishes Restatements of the Law, Principles of the Law, and Model Codes to further its mission to clarify, modernize, or otherwise improve the law to promote the better administration of justice.  ALI’s members come from the bar, bench, and academy and are selected on the basis of outstanding achievement in the legal profession.

Professor Garcia Sanchez was selected to present his article, The Other Secret Deals with Mexico: The Influence of Bureaucratic Networks in U.S.-Mexico Relations, at the American Society of International Law Midyear Meeting Research Forum, held at Case Western Reserve School of Law on October 29, 2020 (online due to COVID-19).

 On October 23, 2020, Professor Nancy Welsh presented at the annual (virtual) Jed D. Melnick Symposium at Cardozo School of Law. The symposium was titled “Presumptive ADR and Court Systems of the Future.” Professor Welsh’s presentation was “What Do We Want From Our Justice System?  That’s What We Should Measure, Assess and Report.” will present at the annual (virtual) Jed D. Melnick Symposium at Cardozo School of Law. The symposium is titled “Presumptive ADR and Court Systems of the Future.” Professor Welsh will speak on “Assessment, Direction, and Vision for the Future.”

On October 22, 2020, Professor Michael Green presented at the Tarrant County Bar Association’s Labor and Employment Section’s monthly meeting on “Selecting Diverse Arbitrators for Employment Discrimination Disputes” in Fort Worth, Texas.

On October 20, 2020, Professor Carol Pauli presented her work on the potential role of the news media in dispute resolution to the ADR Committee of the Nassau County (NY) Bar Association.

On October 11, 2020, Professor Reilly assisted in coaching the Law School’s mediation team (Samantha Elliott ‘22 and Bryan Berens ’22) to help them prepare for the National Mediator Competition sponsored by the University of Houston Law Center.

Professor Michael Green will speak on “Seeking Activist Police Arbitrators?” at the Fifteenth Annual Colloquium on Scholarship in Employment and Labor Law (COSELL) at the University of Louisville, Brandeis School of Law, as part of a virtual program held via Zoom, Louisville, Kentucky, on October 10, 2020.

On October 2, 2020, Professor Michael Green will present as part of a virtual program sponsored by TAMU Outlaw on “Post-Bostock Implications.”

On September 25, 2020, Professor Nancy Welsh participated in the first of three sessions of the invitation-only Resolution Systems Inc./JAMS Foundation National Convening of Experts on Family ODR.

On September 24, 2020 Professors Carol Pauli and Peter Reilly presented a two-hour workshop on negotiation for the Poynter Institute, a leading journalism research and training organization. The audience consisted of approximately 20 Fellows of Poynter’s Media Transformation Challenge, executives representing a wide range of news organizations.

On September 21, 2020, at the invitation of Professor Luz Herrera, Professor Reilly co-taught a class on Negotiation for TAMU law clinic students with Emeritus Professor John Lande from the University of Missouri School of Law.

Professor Reilly was asked to speak on September 14, 2020, at the ABA’s 2020 Dispute Resolution Tech Expo, where he had a brief introductory Q&A session with Boskey Law Student Essay Competition Winner Olivia Stitz. Olivia is a 3L at ASU’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law. Reilly and Stitz were invited to engage in a similar session on September 23, 2020, at the ABA Dispute Resolution Section’s “Ready, Set…Pivot!” program, which addressed career transition issues for law students and recent graduates. A video of that program can be found here.

On August 26, Professor Carol Pauli presented her work on the potential role of the news media in dispute resolution. She was invited as part of New York Law School’s lunchtime speaker series.

As Competition Chair, Professor Reilly coordinated the review process and helped select a winner for the ABA Boskey Law Student Essay Competition on ADR. The winning essay was announced August 25, 2020, and is posted here.

On August 19, 2020, Professor Reilly co-taught a class on Negotiation with Professor Bob Probasco for the Law School’s Tax Dispute Resolution Clinic. Information on the Clinic can be found here.

As Chair Regent of the AALS Section on Dispute Resolution, Professor Reilly recently organized and helped judge the Section’s competition for “Best ADR Article” published in the preceding year. The winning article was announced August 18, 2020, and can be found here.

On August 4, 2020, Professor Reilly attended the 2020 Southeastern Association of Law Schools (SEALS) Annual Conference and participated in a discussion group entitled “Best Practices and Trends in Teaching ADR Skills.”

On August 4, 2020, Professor Michael Green presented as part of a virtual program sponsored by the Southeastern Association of Law Schools (SEALS) Employment Law Workshop Discussion Group: LGBT Rights in the Workplace on “How Bostock Expands Intersectionality Employment Discrimination Law Jurisprudence.” The same day, he presented on “Transitions to Virtual Teaching” as part of the virtual program held by the SEALS Labor and Employment Law Discussion Group on Pedagogical Trends and Techniques in Employment Law, Employment Discrimination, and Labor Law.

On August 3-4, 2020, Professor Cynthia Alkon presented as part of two programs offered at the Southeastern Association of Law Schools (SEALS) annual conference. On August 3, she spoke on “Covid-19 Goes to Court: Survey Examining Changes in Processing Criminal Cases Due to the Pandemic” for the Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Workshop that she co-organized (“State Your Case: The Influence of State Court Decisions, Tribal Courts, and State and Local Level Reforms on Criminal Practice”) and on August 4, she participated in a discussion group on “Best Practices and Trends in Teaching ADR Skills.” presented as part of two programs offered at the Southeastern Association of Law Schools (SEALS) annual conference. On August 3, she was a member of the panel for the Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Workshop on “State Your Case: The Influence of State Court Decisions, Tribal Courts, and State and Local Level Reforms on Criminal Practice” and on August 4, she participated in a discussion group on “Best Practices and Trends in Teaching ADR Skills.”

On July 9, 2020, Professor Cynthia Alkon presented “Constitutional Issues in Plea Bargaining During COVID-19” for the Deason Criminal Justice Reform Center, Southern Methodist University, in Dallas.

On July 8, 2020, Professor Reilly moderated a panel addressing “Commercial Tenant Considerations in the Age of Covid-19” as part of the TAMU Law Answers webinar series; a video of the panel presentation can be found here.

As creator and editor of “ADR Scholarship Projects,” Professor Reilly sends out (in December and June of each year) blurbs of current scholarship projects within the ADR community; the Summer 2020 edition of the project can be found here.

On June 25, 2020, Professor Reilly presented “Emotional Intelligence for Nonprofit Leaders” for SourceAmerica (online).

Professor Michael Green presented on “Selecting Diverse Arbitrators for Employment Discrimination Disputes” for a virtual Fort Worth Society Human Resources Webinar on June 25, 2020.

On Friday, May 29, 2020, Professor Nancy Welsh presented as part of a roundtable on “Measurement and Methodology: Approaches to the Study of Access to Justice” at the Law and Society Association’s annual conference, held virtually. Other presenters on the roundtable included Elizabeth Chambliss (University of South Carolina), Suzie Forell (Health Justice Australia), Dame Hazel Genn (University College London), Rebecca Johnson (Princeton), Tanina Rostain (Georgetown), and James Teufel (Moravian College).

On Monday, May 18, 2020, as part of the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution’s virtual spring conference, Professor Nancy Welsh presented with Professor Lin Adrian (University of Copenhagen) and Jen Shack (Director of Research, RSI) in a workshop entitled “What Data Should Courts Collect.”

On Saturday, May 16, 2020 Professor Nancy Welsh joined the Honorable Justice Gurinder Sistani, very recently retired from the Delhi High Court, to present an online lecture for Amity Law School, Delhi. Their lecture compared the use and institutionalization of mediation in the United States and India.

Professor Green served as a moderator for the TAMU Law Answers Webinar Series: Legal Issues in the Age of the Coronavirus, “Workplace Implications after the Covid-19 Crisis,” on May 12, 2020.

On April 20, 2020 Prof. Garcia Sanchez is the Recipient of the 2020 SMU Texas-Mexico Center annual grant to research regulatory uncertainties in the North America region for energy integration. The research includes the impact that the recently adopted United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement is having in the energy market. As part of the research, Prof. Garcia Sanchez is organizing a series of online workshops and conducting interviews with regulators, practitioners and industry leaders. The grant proposal was presented with Prof. James Coleman from SMU Dedman School of Law. For a video explaining the implications of the research, see https://youtu.be/vPYPr5RIrmw

Professor Garcia Sanchez presented his article, The Other Secret Deals with Mexico: The Influence of Bureaucratic Networks in U.S.-Mexico Relations, at the University of Michigan Law School’s Junior Scholars Conference (held online on April 17, 2020, due to COVID-19). Professor Garcia Sanchez was selected out of three hundred applicants to present his article.

Professor Michael Green organized, moderated and presented at the Workplace Law Conference, “Administrative Law and the Workplace Impact,” held virtually on April 3, 2020 and co-sponsored by the Aggie Dispute Resolution Program.

Although Texas A&M Law’s 2020 Dispute Resolution Symposium was postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic, most of the presenters and moderators met (by Zoom) on March 20 to make their planned presentations and engage in discussion regarding each of their articles. They will be published in the Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution and the Texas A&M Law Review. Professor Garcia Sanchez is the one of us who had the presence of mind to take a screenshot of the Zoom conference! The symposium presenters were very appreciative. One wrote to thank Texas A&M for “organizing it, re-organizing it, and including me!” Others described it as “interesting,” “inspiring,” “wonderful,” “satisfyingly stimulating,” and ultimately “a fascinating day among wonderful folks.” Finally, a presenter observed, “ I cannot imagine all of the different challenges in putting together an online conference at a time like this, but I appreciate that you all did it.” Holding a Zoom conference so quickly under the circumstances presented would not have been possible without the expertise and hard work of Texas A&M Law’s IT staff, staff members Kirsten Evans and Andrea Hudson, and moderators Professors Carol Pauli, Michael Green, and Guillermo Garcia Sanchez. The Aggie Dispute Resolution Program hopes to hold the live symposium once the current crisis is past, perhaps in June.

On March 10, 2020, Professor Nancy Welsh arrived at Ohio State University for the Supreme Court of Ohio’s 2020 Dispute Resolution Conference. Professor Welsh was ready to be one of the speakers on a plenary panel (for more than 500 conference attendees) and to present a workshop with Merril Hirsh, Co-Chair of the ABA Judicial Division Lawyers Conference Committee, on “A Tool to Help Courts: Special Masters.” Due to the coronavirus pandemic and the consequent closure of the university, however, the conference was cancelled. At the request of Cathy Geyer, Manager of the Supreme Court’s Dispute Resolution Section, Professor Welsh and Mr. Hirsh nonetheless got on stage, pulled up their Powerpoint slides, presented their workshop – and the Ohio Government Telecommunications Office’s talented staff did the rest. For the video recording of their presentation, see the Ohio Supreme Court’s website: A Tool to Help Courts: Special Masters

Professor Garcia Sanchez organized and presented on The Hydrocarbon Industry's Approach to Political and Regulatory Risk at Texas A&M University School of Law’s February 27-28, 2020 Eleventh Annual Energy Law Symposium (“Energy Law Currents: Reconciling Risk and Return”).

On February 28, 2020, Professor Cynthia Alkon presented “How to Care More and Imprison Less: Empathy and Compassion in the Criminal Legal System” at the AALS Alternative Dispute Resolution Section’s Works-in-Progress Conference held at the University of Oregon School of Law.

On February 21, 2020, Adjunct Professor Kay Elliott received the Susanne Adams Award from the Texas Association of Mediators.  This award is given annually to persons who have performed exceptional and outstanding efforts in promoting or furthering the use of mediation in Texas.

Professor Nancy Welsh chaired a panel discussing “From Where We Are to Where We Are Heading: Alternative Means to Investor-State Dispute Settlement” at the 2020 Editor-in-Chief Lecture - Innovative Strategies for Conflict Management: Improving Investor-State Relations to Propel Global Growth – held at the St. Thomas University School of Law on February 21, 2020.  Professor Welsh will contribute an article to the resulting issue of the St. Thomas Law Journal.

On February 18, 2020, Professor Reilly presented “Negotiation for Nonprofit Leaders” for SourceAmerica in their Arlington, Texas, regional office.

Professor Nancy Welsh and Adjunct Professor Karen Washington presented on “Arbitration – A Closer Look” to members of the William “Mac” Taylor Chapter of the American Inns of Court in Dallas, Texas, on February 11, 2020.  They spoke about the Supreme Court’s jurisprudence, the history behind the rise of class action-barring mandatory pre-dispute consumer arbitration clauses in the credit card industry, recent case law in Texas, and reform efforts undertaken by Congress, state legislatures, federal agencies, and private actors.

On February 7, 2020, Professor Garcia Sanchez presented his article, When Drills and Pipelines Cross Indigenous Lands in America, at the International Courts and Tribunals Works-in-Progress Conference, sponsored by the American Society of International Law and held at UIC John Marshall Law School, in Chicago, Illinois.

The January 2020 issue of the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution’s Dispute Resolution Magazine features an article authored by Professor Cynthia Alkon and Professor Andrea Schneider.  The article - Our Criminal Legal System: Plagued by Problems and Ripe for Reform – continues themes that Professors Alkon and Schneider discuss in their 2019 book, Negotiating Crime.

Professor Garcia Sanchez presented a draft of his article, The Other Secret Deals with Mexico: The Influence of Bureaucratic Networks in U.S.-Mexico Relations, at Cornell School of Law for the Junior International Law Scholars Association Annual Meeting, January 9-10, 2020.

Professor Cynthia Alkon was a panelist on “Galvanizing Reform for Plea Bargaining in White Collar and Other Crimes” at the American Association of Law Schools’ annual meeting on January 4, 2020.

On Tuesday, December 10, 2019, the Scottish Government announced that it will commence a public consultation in 2020, seeking the views of the general public, key stakeholders and other interested parties on proposals for increasing the consistency and use of mediation within the civil justice system in Scotland. This announcement was made in response to the June, 2019 report of an Expert Group approved by the Scottish Government to conduct an independent review of mediation in the civil justice system.  The Expert Group was led by leading Scottish mediators and involved representatives of a wide range of interests.  Professor Welsh met with the Expert Group in February, 2019, to discuss the U.S. experience with court-connected mediation.  The Expert Group’s report, Bringing Mediation into the Mainstream in Civil Justice in Scotland, cites Professor Welsh throughout. 

On November 11, 2019, Professor Cynthia Alkon and Professor Andrea Schneider spoke about their new book, Negotiating Crime, at a Book Discussion sponsored by Texas A&M University School of Law. During this lively event, Professors Alkon and Schneider answered a range of questions posed by Texas A&M faculty, students, and local judges and lawyers.

On November 1, 2019, Professors Nancy Welsh and Michael Z. Green presented at Fordham University School of Law’s symposium on “Access to Justice in ADR.” Professor Welsh spoke as part of the panel on “Mediation, Arbitration, Transparency and Diversity.” Professor Green’s panel addressed “Perspectives on Justice.”

On October 28, 2019, Professor Nancy Welsh presented (along with Professor Jean Sternlight and Colin Rule) as part of a panel on “Expanding Access to Justice with ODR: Best Practices and Standards from the ADR Field” at the ODR (Online Dispute Resolution) Forum hosted by the National Center for State Courts in Williamsburg, Virginia.

On October 25, 2019, Professor Cynthia Alkon presented “Have Problem Solving Courts Changed the Practice of Law?” as part of the Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution’s symposium on “Innovations in Justice: Experiments in Restorative Processes” at Yeshiva University, Cardozo School of Law, New York.

On October 20-21, 2019, four students from the law school’s Community Development and Entrepreneurship Clinics joined with Professor Nancy Welsh to conduct a two-day conflict resolution skills training program for case managers at the Presbyterian Night Shelter in Fort Worth. Among other things, the students worked with Professor Welsh to create customized simulations and a presentation on Fair Housing and landlord-tenant law. The Presbyterian Night Shelter was started by a group of Presbyterian ministers as an overnight shelter for Tarrant County’s homeless population. Today, the organization is the largest provider of services to the county’s homeless, providing both emergency and long-term housing and other services to help guests overcome barriers to permanent housing.

Professors Cynthia Alkon, Guillermo Garcia Sanchez and Michael Z. Green participated in the 13th Annual AALS ADR Section Works-in-Progress Conference at UNLV on October 4-5, 2019, presenting on plea bargaining (Professor Alkon - "Increasing Empathy and Compassion to Decrease Mass Incarceration"), mediation (Professor Garcia - "When Drills and Pipelines Cross Indigenous Lands in North America: Mediating the Clash of Rights"), and arbitration (Professor Green - "Arbitrarily Selecting Diverse Arbitrators"). 

Professor Cynthia Alkon's groundbreaking new textbook, co-authored with Andrea Schneider, Negotiating Crime: Plea Bargaining, Problem Solving, and Dispute Resolution in the Criminal Context, (Carolina Academic Press), is the first of its kind to cover all the processes through which U.S. criminal cases are resolved beyond trials. (October 2019)

On September 23, 2019, Professor Nancy Welsh presented the Overton Lecture at the University of Florida Levin College of Law’s inaugural Institute for Dispute Resolution Faculty Workshop in Gainesville, Florida. Her presentation was titled “Bringing Transparency, Accountability--and Competition Perhaps?--to Court-Connected Dispute Resolution." 

West Academic published the 6th edition of Dispute Resolution and Lawyers. Professor Nancy Welsh is one of the co-authors, along with Leonard Riskin, Chris Guthrie, Jennifer Robbennolt, Richard Reuben and Art Hinshaw.

On September 4, 2019, Professor Nancy Welsh presented on “ADR at Texas A&M University School of Law and in Texas Courts” for the Tarrant County Bar Association’s ADR Section.

On August 16, 2019, Professor Nancy Welsh delivered a keynote address at the 27th ​Annual Dispute Resolution Center Conference held in Orlando, Florida. Over 1,000 Florida mediators, neutrals and lawyers attended the conference. Professor Welsh’s keynote was titled "What We Do and Don't Know About Court-Connected Mediation."

As Chair of the ABA’s James B. Boskey Law Student Essay Competition on ADR, Professor Peter Reilly was involved in selecting this year’s winning essay: "Wampum, Buffalo, and Taliban: How embracing lessons on violence and negotiation from the American Indian Wars will help end the War in Afghanistan,” written by Jonathan McClurg from BYU’s J. Reuben Clark Law School (August, 2019).

Professor Michael Z. Green was interviewed by​ University of Oregon School of Law Professors Liz Tippett and Jennifer Reynolds regarding his article, "A New #MeToo Result: Rejecting Notions of Romantic Consent with Executives." They discuss, among other things, the role of ADR in producing the #MeToo movement. The interview is available on YouTube.

On July 29, 2019, Professor Cynthia Alkon led a Dispute Resolution Workshop titled "Using Dispute Resolution Skills to Teach Current Events" at the annual conference of the Southeastern Association of Law Schools in Boca Raton, Florida. Professor Nancy Welsh was also one of the discussants.

On July 18, 2019, Professor Nancy Welsh submitted "Preliminary Recommendations on Data Elements to be Collected by Courts" to the National Center for State Courts (NCSC), on behalf of the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution's Advisory Committee on Dispute Resolution Research. The NCSC has established a National Data Standards Workgroup and invited these recommendations. Professor Welsh chairs the Advisory Committee on Dispute Resolution Research.

June 18-19, 2019 all of the Aggie Dispute Resolution Program faculty participated in the “Appreciating our Legacy and Engaging the Future” conference in Malibu, California. Professor Nancy Welsh was one of the organizers of the conference. She and Professor Michael Z. Green presented during the second plenary on “Engaging the Future: Opportunities and Challenges.” Professor Welsh also moderated a workshop on “Research and Scholarship with a Real World Focus – Methodologies and Terminology.” Professor Cynthia Alkon presented on a panel regarding “ADR and Access to Justice.” Professor Peter Reilly presented on a panel regarding “Learning Styles and Pedagogy;” Professor Carol Pauli presented on a panel regarding “Bridging the Social Divide;” and Professor Guillermo Garcia presented on a panel regarding “Research and Scholarship Across Borders.”

Professor Peter Reilly conducted negotiation training for the Georgetown University Center for Public and Nonprofit Leadership’s Nonprofit Management Executive Certificate program held in Washington, DC. The program is geared toward directors, managers, board members and other leaders of nonprofit and philanthropic organizations worldwide (June 14, 2019).

Professor Guillermo Garcia participated by invitation in the Book Workshop “International Investment Law: An Analysis of Major Decisions” at the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law (June 6-7, 2019).

Professor Guillermo Garcia met with ​faculty and the Dean of the Faculty of Law at Maastricht University to build different areas of collaboration, including ​live online negotiation and arbitration exercises between Texas A&M Law & Maastricht students as well as organizing an upcoming field trip to Maastricht to study the policies and litigation regarding communities affected by the development of gas fields in the ​Netherlands (June 4, 2019).

On June 2, 2019, Professor Guillermo Garcia presented by invitation his article "The Footprint of the Chinese Petro-Dragon: The Future of Investment Law in Transboundary Resources" at the University of Bergen in Norway.

Professor Guillermo Garcia presented his research on international energy dispute resolution at the Mexican National Hydrocarbons Commission in late May 2019. The Commission is an autonomous, government agency in charge of regulating, overseeing and evaluating all hydrocarbons exploration and production activities in Mexico. The lecture was attended by the commission president, Dr. Alma America Porras, and Commissioner Sergio Pimentel, along with other thirty officers of the Commission. The visit serves as a basis to establish further academic collaboration between Texas A&M University School of Law and the National Hydrocarbons Commission.

Professor Cynthia Alkon presented (with Andrea Kupfer Schneider) "Bargaining in the Dark:  Why a Lack of Transparency in Plea Bargaining Leads to Injustice" at  at the Multi-Door Criminal Justice Symposium: Examining Hybrids of Non-adversarial Justice, May 27, 2019 at Bar Ilan University, Israel. (May 27, 2019). The ​associated article will be published in the New Criminal Law Review (University of California Press).

Professor Peter Reilly presented “Negotiation for Nonprofit Professionals” for New York State Industries for the Disabled, a nonprofit membership organization with the mission of “advancing employment and other opportunities for individuals with disabilities” (May 8, 2019).

Three members of the Aggie Dispute Resolution Program faculty presented at the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution’s annual spring conference, held April 10-13, 2019 in Minneapolis. Professor Cynthia Alkon discussed her forthcoming book as part of “Criminal-Side ADR: Problems and Possibilities.” Professor Michael Z. Green presented a forthcoming article in “#MeToo: Exploring Dispute Resolution Angles.” Professor Nancy Welsh was a panelist in “A New World for ADR: The ABA’s Guidelines on the Use of Special Masters in Civil Litigation.” The Aggie Dispute Resolution Program was a bronze sponsor of the conference.

Professor Nancy Welsh’s article, "Dispute Resolution Neutrals’ Ethical Obligation to Support Measured Transparency," 71 Okl. L. Rev. 823 (2019), was the subject of a March 22, 2019 blog post authored by Jennifer Shack, Director of Research for Resolution Systems Institute. See “Should There Be an Ethical Obligation for Mediators to Support Transparency?”.

Professor Peter Reilly was invited to submit a post for Columbia Law School’s Blue Sky Blog on Corporations and the Capital Markets. The post discussed Reilly's article “Sweetheart Deals, Deferred Prosecution, and Making a Mockery of the Criminal Justice System: U.S. Corporate DPAs Rejected on Many Fronts” appeared on the Blog on March 5, 2019.

On March 4, 2019, Professor Nancy Welsh presented on the organization and objectives of Texas A&M Law’s 1L ADR Survey course in a webinar titled “Building ADR and Client Practice Skills Education into the 1L Curriculum.” The webinar was sponsored by the ADR Committee of the AALS Section on Clinical Legal Education.

On March 1, 2019, Professor Guillermo Garcia and Professor Nancy Welsh moderated panels at the conference titled “NAFTA 2.0: The Puzzle of North America as a Region.” Professor Garcia’s panel addressed natural resource extraction and sustainable development in North America. Professor Welsh’s panel focused on dispute resolution for North America under NAFTA 2.0. Texas A&M Law’s Global and Comparative Law Program sponsored the conference. The Aggie Dispute Resolution Program was a co-sponsor.

Professor Carol Pauli led a workshop on negotiation for the Poynter Institute's Leadership Academy for Women in Digital Media in St. Petersburg, Florida, February 24-March 1. She will return to conduct another workshop in October for an upcoming Leadership Academy.

On February 19, 2019, Professor Nancy Welsh presented “Bringing Transparency, Accountability and Competition to Court-Connected Dispute Resolution” at a faculty workshop at Marquette University Law School.

On February 15, 2019, Professor Michael Z. Green participated, via video conference, in a public discussion at Brandeis University about the Harvard Law School Negotiation Journal special issue devoted to negotiation topics related to President Trump. Professor Green’s article "Negotiating Race in the Workplace After Trump" was published in volume 39, issue 1 of the Negotiation Journal. More than 30 invited experts contributed to the special issue that has received media attention on Huffington Post and Indisputably Blog.

On January 22, 2019, Professor Nancy Welsh participated by invitation in a workshop organized by the National Center for State Courts and held in Austin, Texas to consult with key stakeholders regarding measures and metrics for Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) in state and local courts.

Professor Michael Z. Green's 2005 Journal of American Arbitration (vol. 4, p.1) article "An Essay Challenging the Racially Biased Selection of Arbitrators for Employment Discrimination Suits" was quoted in the November 29, 2018 Observer article "Jay-Z Halting His $204M Lawsuit Over a Lack of Black Arbitrators Could Be Historic."

On November 17, 2018, Professor Guillermo Garcia Sanchez presented "Chasing Dragons in the Gulf of Mexico" (work in progress) at the Texas A&M Aggie Dispute Resolution Schmooze.

On November 16, 2018, as part of the 2018 Dispute Resolution Symposium at Texas A&M University School of Law, Professor Peter Reilly presented on the need for greater transparency regarding the deferred prosecution agreements negotiated by the Department of Justice with corporate defendants.  Professors Alkon, Green and Welsh moderated panels focusing on the need for metrics, transparency and empirical research in the areas of plea bargaining, diversity/inclusivity among dispute resolution neutrals, and court-connected mediation and online dispute resolution.

On November 2, 2018, Professor Nancy Welsh presented a lecture at the "Law and Economics" conference hosted by Brazilian FGV Rio-Law School at Columbia Law School. Welsh discussed recent developments and trends in mediation and dispute resolution mechanisms in the United States on the Law, Economics and ADR/Mediation panel – a “hot topic” in Brazil according to conference organizers. Other conference participants included Brazil's Supreme Court Chief Justice Dias Toffoli and Justice Gilmar Mendes, Superior Appellate Court (STJ) Chief Justice Jaoa Noronha, and ten justices from the STJ.

On October 18, 2018, Professor Guillermo Garcia Sanchez presented comments on the International Law Association’s Rule of Law and International Investment Law Committee report during ILA’s International Law weekend in New York.

On October 6, 2018, Professor Nancy Welsh made two plenary presentations at the Viadrina International Mediation "mediation moves ..." Conference 2018 in Frankfurt (Oder), Germany. The conference was sponsored by the Master Program Mediation and Conflict Management of the European University Viadrina, the Master's Program on Mediation at the University of Copenhagen, and the Singapore International Dispute Resolution Academy at Singapore Management University. Professor Welsh spoke on “Regulation … the systemic death of mediation as we know/love it?” and “Mediation moves in the digital world – glimpses into the future.” She also led a workshop on empirical research regarding mediation and online dispute resolution.

On October 6, 2018, Professor Guillermo Garcia Sanchez presented "Chasing Dragons in the Gulf of Mexico" (work in progress) at Marquette University Law School’s sixth annual junior faculty scholars work-in-progress conference.

Professor Michael Z. Green presented "The Promise of Mediation in Accommodating Psychiatric Disability in the Workplace" and Professor Cynthia Alkon presented “Does It Matter Who Your Lawyer Is?” at the Twelfth Annual American Association of Law Schools Dispute Resolution Scholarly Works-in-Progress Conference at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law in Baltimore in early October.

Professor Michael Z. Green presented his work-in-progress paper, "Statutory Non-Consent to Sexual Harassment by the Boss," at the Thirteenth Annual Colloquium on Scholarship in Employment and Labor Law (COSELL) held at the University of South Carolina School of Law in late September.

In June 2018, Professor Carol Pauli served as a faculty member at the Poynter Leadership Academy for Women in Digital Media. The Poynter Institute is a leading journalism training center and think tank, and the young women participants work for news outlets including USA Today, Politico, PBS, HuffPost, Newsday, Vox, NPR, the New York Times, and the Washington Post.

From May 7 to 19, 2018, Professor Nancy Welsh and Professor Gabriel Eckstein ​led a field study for Texas A&M law students -- Intro to Israel: Water, Energy and Dispute Resolution.

From May 7 to 19, 2018, Professor Guillermo Garcia and Professor Randy Gordon ​led a field study for Texas A&M law students -- ​Scotland: Natural Resource Management and Dispute Resolution.

On April 13, 2018, Professor Nancy Welsh welcomed attendees to Natural Disasters, Stakeholder Engagement and Dispute Resolution, the first annual conference of the Texas A&M Aggie Dispute Resolution Program. Also co-sponsoring were Texas A&M’s Program in Natural Resources Systems, Program in Real Estate and Community Development Law, and Global Programs.

Professor Nancy Welsh’s presentation at the March conference organized by the SMU Center for Cross-Border Commercial Law in Asia was featured in an April 9, 2018 story, "From Zero-Sum to Win-Win," in the Asian Scientist Magazine.

On April 6, 2018, Professor Nancy Welsh introduced the plenary presentation of her Harvard Law School classmate, Senator Tim Kaine, at the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution Spring Conference, in Washington D.C.

On April 6, 2018, Professor Nancy Welsh and Marvin Johnson presented “How the Preference for Third Party Decision Making and Substantive Expertise in ‘Major’ Cases Fosters Bias in Neutral and Process Selection” at the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution Spring Conference, in Washington D.C.

On March 15, 2018, Professor Nancy Welsh presented “Combining Mediation and Arbitration: Procedural Safeguards” at the Asian International Arbitration Centre in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

On March 15-16, 2018, Professor Nancy Welsh presented on dispute resolution topics to faculty, administrators and students at the International Islamic University and the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

On March 12-13, 2018, Professor Nancy Welsh presented “Trustworthiness, Transparency and Procedural Safeguards” at Expanding the Scope of Dispute Resolution and Access to Justice: The Use of Mediation Within the Courts, a research forum sponsored by Singapore Management University and the Centre for Cross-Border Commercial Law in Asia, in Singapore. The forum was supported by the Singapore International Dispute Resolution Academy and the Singapore International Mediation
Institute.

On February 9, 2018, Professors Cynthia Alkon, Peter Reilly and Nancy Welsh conducted a program in College Station for Texas A&M University department heads. The program was titled “Department Heads as Negotiators: Working to Improve Your Skills.”

On January 2-5, 2018, Professors Cynthia Alkon, Michael Green, Carol Pauli, Peter Reilly and Nancy Welsh conducted the law school’s first one-credit ADR Survey for 1Ls.

On January 4, 2018, Associate Professor Peter Reilly was elected to the position of Chair-Elect of the AALS (Association of American Law Schools) Section on Alternative Dispute Resolution.

In December 2017, Professor Guillermo Garcia Sanchez presented a work in progress on U.S.-Mexico transboundary hydrocarbon agreements at CIDE University in Mexico City. 

In December 2017, the SMU Law Review published a two-part symposium issue that included articles by Professors Michael Green (“Reconsidering Prejudice in Alternative Dispute Resolution for Black Work Matters”) and Nancy Welsh (“Do You Believe in Magic? Self-Determination and Procedural Justice Meet Inequality in Court-Connected Mediation”).

On December 12-18, Professors Cynthia Alkon, Charlotte Ku and Nancy Welsh visited with Israeli and Palestinian judges, lawyers and other dispute resolution and legal professionals, as part of a U.S. Dispute Resolution Law Professor delegation sponsored by Academic Partners for Peace.

On November 13, 2017, Associate Professor Carol Pauli was an invited speaker on “Persistent Human Divides,”  the theme of the  2017 Jed D. Melnick Symposium at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York City.  She spoke about the role of journalism in “Changing Attitudes and Behaviors Through the Media,” with her co-panelist John Marks, founder of the nonprofit organization Search for Common Ground.

On November 7, 2017, Professor Michael Z. Green discussed the Ezekiel Elliott case in an interview by Steven Johnston, East Texas Radio, broadcast on KPLT 1490 AM, 96.3 FM.

On October 30, 2017, U.S. District Judge Katherine Polk Failla in the Southern District of New York issued an opinion citing Professor Michael Z. Green’s recently published article in the NYU Journal of Legislation and Public Policy, co-authored with recent graduate and ​Law ​Clerk for the Texas Eleventh Court of Appeals, Kyle Carney, Can NFL Players Obtain Judicial Review of Arbitration Decisions on the Merits When A Typical Hourly Union Worker Cannot Obtain This Unusual Court Access? in the Ezekiel Elliott case, National Football League Mgmt. Council v. National Football League Players Ass’n. 

On October 28, 2017, Professor Nancy Welsh presented on “Procedural Fairness and Self-Determination in Mediation: Promises Kept?” at the Texas Mediator Credentialing Association 13^th Annual Symposium held at Texas A&M University School of Law.

On October 27, 2017, Professor Nancy Welsh spoke on “A Need to Update the Model Standards of Conduct for Mediators” at the Alternative Dispute Resolution Symposium held at Elon University School of Law in Greensboro, North Carolina.

On October 20-21, 2017, four members of the Aggie Dispute Resolution Program faculty presented drafts of their articles at the AALS 11th Annual Dispute Resolution Works in Progress Conference held at Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law:

• Professor Cynthia Alkon (Losing Empathy While Gaining Technology: Concerns for Criminal Practice and Reform)
• Associate Professor Carol Pauli (Enemy of the People: Negotiating News at the White House)
• Associate Professor Peter Reilly (Corporate Deferred Prosecution as Discretionary Injustice)
• Professor Nancy Welsh (An Ethical Obligation to Support Transparency?)

On October 20, 2017, Associate Professor Guillermo Garcia Sanchez presented at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law on the renegotiation of NAFTA and the resolution of disputes between indigenous communities and foreign investors. The presentation was part of the symposium titled “The United States Mexico Relationship in International Law and Politics” organized by the Maryland Journal of International Law.

Associate Professor Peter Reilly, along with Professor Mike Koehler (Southern Illinois School of Law), organized “The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act at Forty: A Look Back and a Look Ahead,” a day-long conference that took place at Texas A&M School of Law on October 12, 2017. Learn more.

On October 7, 2017, Professor Nancy Welsh presented on “Ethical Issues in Bargaining” at the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution’s Negotiation Institute held in Washington D.C.

On September 20, 2017, Professor Michael Z. Green presented “The Promise of Mediation in Accommodating Bipolar Disorder and Other Psychiatric Disabilities Versus Workplace Hostilities” at the Tarrant County Bar Association Joint Luncheon Meeting of the Labor and Employment and Alternative Dispute Resolution Sections in Fort Worth, Texas.

On September 15-16, 2017, Professor Michael Z. Green coordinated a gathering of workplace law scholars as part of the Twelfth Annual Colloquium on Scholarship in Employment and Labor Law (COSELL) held at Texas A&M University School of Law. Learn more.

On September 11, 2017, the Corporate Crime Reporter interviewed Associate Professor Peter Reilly about his Utah Law Review article, Corporate Deferred Prosecution as Discretionary Injustice.  The interview can be found here: https://www.corporatecrimereporter.com/news/200/corporate-deferred-prosecution-discretionary-injustice/.