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7 Administrative Conference News 1 (1993)

handle is hein.usfed/admcfnws0007 and id is 1 raw text is: ADMINISTRATIVE CONFERENCE NEWS ** ** * *1 M Thy Administrative Conference of the United States Spring 1993 Volume VII, Number 1 ADR Systems Design Roundtable Draws More than 100 A large and enthusiastic audience of federal agency officials involved in their agencies' ADR activities attended the Conference's most recent ADR roundtable on February 2, 1993. The day-long program focused on the practical aspects of designing systems for using alternative dispute resolution in federal agencies. Several recognized experts in the field, including Stephen Goldberg of Northwestern University Law School and Linda R. Singer of the Center for Dispute Settlement, participated in the day's program. The program began with a panel discussion of the basic principles of dispute system design, in which Ms. Singer and Professor Goldberg were joined by Cathy Costantino, Director of the ADR Unit at the FDIC, who presented a federal perspective. This was followed by a fishbowl exercise, during which Professor Goldberg and Ms. Singer discussed with representatives from the U.S. Air Force's Sacramento Air Logistics Center their newly-begun efforts to establish an ADR program, focusing through a series of questions and answers on how to design a dispute resolution system for contract disputes. In the afternoon, participants broke into small groups, each focusing on building ADR processes into systems for handling a typical type of dispute, such as EEO, personnel grievance and labor relations, enforcement, contracts, litigation, and policy development. The roundtable is part of an ongoing series, designed to provide assistance to agency officials in their implementation of the Administrative Dispute Resolution Act. The next roundtable will be on May 25, on 'evaluating dispute resolution systems. Peter L. Strauss, Professor of Law at Columbia University, and AAA President Paul R. Verkuil, one of the consultants on The Federal Administrative Judiciary study, reviewing Recommendation I 92-7. i Highlights. Legislative Seminar 3 .!nspectors General 4 Economic Interdependence 7 Colurms Notes from the Chairman 2 ADR Alert 3 Membership News 4 Staff Notes 5 In Print 5 Research Update 6 Reg Neg Watch7 Upcoming Events8 Conference Promulgates Recommendations on Federal Administrative Judiciary Reform Proposed changes to the selection and management of the government's administrative judiciary were formally adopted (Recommendation 92-7) at the December plenary. Recommendation 92-7 (The Federal Administrative Judiciary), calls upon Congress, when creating new programs, to preserve the uniformity of process and of qualifications of presiding officers contemplated by the 1946 Administrative Procedure Act. To do this, Recommendation 92-7 contains guidelines for Congress to use in deciding when to assign adjudications to administrative law judges instead of to non-APA administrative judges. Also urged is changing the ALI selection process administered by the Office of Personnel Management so that (See Reform, page 8)

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