2024 Annual Awards Winners

The Outstanding Book Award was presented to Amy Schmitz for the The Arbitration Conversation: Insights and Wisdom from Experts in the Field (ABA DR Section 2024).

The Outstanding Professional Article Award goes to Art Hinshaw and Roselle Wissler for  “Comparing Joint Session and Caucus Outcomes: Factoring in Substantive Discussions and Case Characteristics,” 25 Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution 491 (2024).

The Outstanding Professional Article Award also goes to  Michael Green for “Expanding the Ban on Forced Arbitration to Race Claims,” 72 Kan. L. Rev. 455 (2024).

This year’s Outstanding Short Article Award goes to Melvin Loh for “The Power of Stories: Advocating for Therapeutic Justice Through Mediation,” 2023 Asian Journal on Mediation 1 (December 2023).

The Outstanding Student Article Award went to Samuel Cole for “Bargaining in the Shadow of the EFAA” (to be published in the University of Missouri School of Law Journal on Dispute Resolution in 2025).

The James F. Henry Award was given posthumously to Michael Leathes, the founder of the International Mediation Institute. His work as in-house counsel included positions at Pfizer, British American Tobacco and a predecessor company to Diageo. He authored many articles and the book Negotiation – Things corporate counsel need to know but were not taught (Wolters Kluwer, 2017). Among his many accomplishments in mediation and indeed the entire field of dispute resolution, Leathes made significant contributions to the development of Singapore as a center for mediation.