Peter Reilly’s call for updates on our scholarship prompted me to create the following lists of short articles and blog posts I wrote this year. You might want to read some or see if any would fit into your syllabi as required or recommended readings addressing your teaching goals.
The following pieces focus directly on dispute resolution issues:
- How You Can Solve Tough Problems in Mediation
- Reconciling Allegedly Alternative Mediation Models by Using DIY Models
- Dwight Golann on a Year of Zoom Mediations
- Courts Should Make Mediations Good Samaritans Not Frankensteins
- Charting a Middle Course for Court-Connected Mediation
- Canaries in the Litigation Coal Mine
- The Role of Law in Legal Disputes
- Lawyers Are From Mars, Clients Are From Venus – And Mediators Can Help Communicate in Space
- New Edition of Psychology for Lawyers
- Anna Howard’s New Book Examines Why Businesses Don’t Use Mediation – And Other Issues
- Survey of Early Dispute Resolution Movements and Possible Next Steps
- Dilyara Nigmatullina’s New Article on Planned Early Dispute Resolution and Technology
- Constructing Good ODR Systems
- ADR’s Place in Navigating a Polarized Era
- Peter Coleman’s Outstanding Evidence-Based Work on Reducing Polarization
- Teaching Students to Think Like Practitioners
- Teaching Dispute Resolution with a Marriage Story
- Coben & Stienstra’s Fabulous Annotated Bibliography of Empirical Research
I wrote a chapter, “Varieties of Early Negotiation Processes,” which will be published in the forthcoming book, The Family Dispute Resolution Handbook, edited by Peter Salem and Kelly Browe Olson.
I also wrote commentaries about books, articles, movies, tv shows, and podcasts with a dispute resolution perspective including:
- Changing Minds
- What We’ve Got Here is Failure to Communicate
- Thanks for the Feedback
- Worth
- High-Powered Lawyers Protecting a Ruthless Drug-Dealing Mob
- The Social Dilemma
- Collateral Damage of War
- William Randolph Hearst
- Frederik Backman Books
- Sex Education
- Finally, A Mediation TV Program That Tells It Like It Is (Not)
I hope you enjoy the break.