Dear all, as I just sent out to our listserve as well, it is time to remind you of the Boskey Competition for two reasons–(a) I need your students to submit essays; and (b) you might be right now in the midst of grading the next competition winner as we speak. This competition offers your students … Continue reading Boskey Competition Reminder–June 14th Deadline
Yesterday was the last day of class for our International Conflict Resolution class and, to close, I thought I would post some oversarching comments. Particularly as the new Secretary of State, John Kerry, embarks on what I hope will be a successful quest to learn more about the Israeli Palestinian conflict and encourage the parties to … Continue reading Israel Reflections 2013–American Perspectives on the Middle East
In a poll conducted by Brian Leiter’s Law School Reports, Alternative Dispute Resolution ranked fourth in terms of what areas of law need more attention from the legal academy in terms of more full-time faculty doing research in the area . The full poll results can be found here. So, blog readers, what do you think? … Continue reading ADR on Top Five List of What Needs More Attention From Legal Academy
A highlight of our trip was meeting with Justice Aharon Barak. Barak has been hailed as the father of Israeli constitituional law and Justice Elana Kagan called Justice Barak her “judicial hero.” His remarks covered a widespread range of topics from the development of Israeli law to several difference famous Israeli Supreme Court cases to … Continue reading Israel Reflections 2013–A Meeting with a Judicial Giant
As we wrote about the last Israel trip, noting the complications and contradictions of the country are crucial to also understanding it. On the 65th anniversary of Israeli independence, this blog post from student Kristina Minor discusses the importance and implications of Zionism: Israel is by far the most complicated place I have ever been. … Continue reading Israel Reflections 2013–It’s Still Complicated
At the ABA Section on Dispute Resolution Annual Meeting last week, Senator George Mitchell spoke about Northern Ireland and how important hope and patience is for a peace process. On the other hand, and contrary to much that we read about in negotiation, he did not argue that trust is needed. Several of our speakers in Israel spoke … Continue reading Israel Reflections 2013–is trust necessary?
Hi all—lovely to see so many of you last week at the ABA Section on Dispute Resolution Conference! Just to follow up from my mini-presentation in the morning of the LEC, I wanted to send around live links to the two teaching materials I shared. The first is the article on teaching the TKI and … Continue reading DYNAD Exercise
From Glen Parker at Cardozo, below is an announcement about a writing competition in conflict resolution open to students in the Tri-State area or from that region: The ACR-GNY has organized a Student Writing Competition to coincide with its 2013 Annual Conference being held on June 20, 2013. The goal of the competition is to solicit scholarly … Continue reading New York Area Writing Competition
Tonight begins Holocaust Remembrance Day–Yom Hashoah–and so today’s post is from Brendan Byrne on visiting the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial–a regular stop for visitors to Israel including the President this past month. Yad Vashem is the official memorial to the victims and survivors of the Holocaust that took 6 million lives and left physical and emotional … Continue reading Israel Reflections 2013–Yad Vashem
This year traveling up to the Golan Heights was a little more fraught with tension–after all, UN peacekeepers had been held for three days by Syrian rebels and the Syrian civil war made the historically quiet area more active. It also ended up being the location of one of the most amazing learning experiences of … Continue reading Israel Reflections 2013–The Golan Heights
