Faculty Making Waves STEPHANIE BLONDELL LEADS INITIATIVES ON ADR CLINICAL PEDAGOGY IN VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT Professor Stephanie Blondell became co-chair of the ADR Committee in the AALS Section on Clinical Education, with professor Toby Guerin of Maryland Carey School of Law. In this role, she has regularly convened clinical faculty who teach mediation in a virtual think tank, that creates the space to solve pedagogical issues related to the pandemic. She also presented at the ABA Dispute Resolution Spring Conference on this topic, and her remarks centered on how clinical faculty have adapted to court shutdowns, eviction moratoriums, and remote teaching.
TOM STIPANOWICH PUBLISHES “DEAR 1L: FIVE GUIDEPOSTS FOR YOUR FUTURE PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE” IN CARDOZO JOURNAL OF CONFLICT RESOLUTION Professor Thomas J. Stipanowich’s article, “Dear 1L: Five Guideposts for Your Future Professional Practice,” has been published in the Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution. The article is coauthored with professor Lela P. Love of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University. The article serves as a message to law students about the range of skills and insights that lawyers should bring to their work, and advises them to put litigation into a broader perspective.
MAUREEN WESTON PUBLISHED IN GONZAGA LAW REVIEW ON LAW PRACTICE DURING COVID-19 Professor Maureen Arellano Weston’s article, “Lawyering and Representing Organizational Clients in a Public Health Crisis,” has been published in the Gonzaga Law Review, 56 Gonz. L. R. 259 (2020). The article considers the response of the legal profession to the crises caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. “The unprecedented public health and financial crisis . . . calls upon the legal profession to go beyond traditional, adversarial, ‘rights’-based representation and disputing force majeure liability toward working with clients and collaborating with counterparts as partners in joint problem solving, innovative thinking, and developing viable options to help meet the parties’ mutual interests in safety, surviving, and perhaps even thriving, during and after the pandemic,” stated Weston.
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