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04.03.09| Fri

Against Settlement: 25 Years Later

Time: 9:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. Location: James B.M. McNally Amphitheatre, Fordham Law School Sponsor: Fordham Law Review; Fordham Conflict Resolution and ADR Program CLE Credits: 0 Tel: 212.636-6945 Email: cle@law.fordham.edu

SPACE IS STILL AVAILABLE PLEASE REGISTER AT DOOR. The Fordham Law Review presents Against Settlement: Twenty-Five Years Later Friday | April 3, 2009 9:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. Fordham Law School | McNally Amphitheatre 140 West 62nd Street | New York, NY 10023 In 1984, Owen Fiss provocatively argued that the ADR movement overvalued settlement, that adjudication serves a purpose greater than dispute resolution, and that "[c]ivil litigation is an instrument for using state power to bring a recalcitrant reality closer to our chosen ideals." Against Settlement, 93 Yale L.J. 1073 (1984). What do we make of his arguments twenty-five years later? In the intervening years, the dispute resolution field has matured, public interest lawyering has changed, aggregate litigation has grown with comprehensive resolution as an expected endgame, and global perspectives on litigation have become more prominent, shedding new light on the arguments Fiss raised. The Fordham Law Review has assembled a remarkable group – many of the nation’s leading voices in ADR, complex litigation, and public interest lawyering – for a one-day symposium to reconsider questions of settlement and adjudication in civil litigation. Program Schedule: 8:30 CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST 9:00 WELCOME Prof. Howard Erichson Fordham Law 9:15–10:45 SESSION 1 Prof. John Bronsteen Loyola University Chicago School of Law Prof. Samuel Issacharoff New York University School of Law Moderator: Prof. Matthew Diller Fordham Law 10:45–11:00 BREAK 11:00–12:30 SESSION 2 Kenneth Feinberg, Esq. Feinberg Rozen, LLP Prof. Susan Sturm Columbia University School of Law Hon. Jack Weinstein Eastern District of New York Moderator: Prof. Michael M. Martin Fordham Law 12:30–2:00 LUNCH 2:00–3:30 SESSION 3 Prof. Amy Cohen Ohio State University Moritz College of Law Prof. Michael Moffitt University of Oregon School of Law Prof. Jacqueline Nolan-Haley Fordham Law Moderator: Prof. Beth Schwartz Fordham Law 3:30–3:45 BREAK 3:45–4:30 REMARKS: THE HISTORY OF AN IDEA Introduction: Dean William Michael Treanor Fordham Law Prof. Owen Fiss Yale Law School 4:30–5:15 DISCUSSION All participants Moderator: Prof. Howard Erichson Fordham Law 5:15 COCKTAIL RECEPTION This symposium is co-sponsored by the Fordham Conflict Resolution and ADR Program. Registration Fee:This event is free and open to the public ($10 fee for lunch) Additional information: symposiumeditor@gmail.com Location: James B.M. McNally Amphitheatre, Fordham University School of Law, 140 West 62nd Street, New York, NY SPACE IS STILL AVAILABLE PLEASE REGISTER AT DOOR.

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