Much as I did in 2011, I will be posting some of the student reflections on the trip to Israel as the best way to reflect on the conflict. I could brag about the students–what the students have learned, how being actually there is so important, how proud they made me with their insight and … Continue reading Israel Reflections 2013–Introduction to the Old City
So without the amazing Professor Hinshaw along on my Israel trip this past week, there was no live blogging. Now that I am back, having survived traveling with 32 law students to Israel last week (just in time to lay the groundwork for the President’s visit this week!), I plan on blogging about the trip … Continue reading Not-Quite-Live Israel Blog 2013–Conflict Sells
I am delighted to report that Friend-of-the-Blog Jennifer Gerarda Brown has been named Dean of the Quinnipiac University School of Law. The official announcement can be found here. Suffice it to say that we are enthusiastic supporters and confident that Jennifer will do a great job. Congrats to both Jen and Quinnipiac!
There is no good way to put this up on the blog and we also knew that Lisa and Terry’s many colleagues and friends would want to know. They were in an accident while in London, hit by a bus, and both in critical condition in medically induced comas. More information about the accident and their … Continue reading Lisa Bingham & Terry Amsler in Accident in London
Hattip to Friend of the Blog Jean Sternlight for sending this article along. In today’s Washington Post blog, the author argues that the fiscal cliff negotiations are pehaps the greatest test yet of the Harvard Negotiation Project. As Carrie Menkel-Meadow notes in the article, “If we ever had a president who has learned the science of … Continue reading Harvard to Blame if We Go Off Fiscal Cliff?
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) I need you to judge! Besides, you might be right now in the midst of grading the next competition winner as … Continue reading Boskey Competition and Request for Judges
My friend and colleague Sheila Heen, co-author of the well-known book, Difficult Conversations, just wrote a wonderful column for the New York Times, entitled Sleeping with the (Political) Enemy, all about how she and her husband John Richardson (also a negotiation and conflict resolution expert) manage to communicate about their vast political differences. I read it … Continue reading Sleeping with (or Being Related to) the Enemy
I link here to a great post from my colleague Irene Ten Cate on how the world of arbitration needs to incorporate more women–even by asking for binders of them! This is a timely concern duly noted in the latest Alternatives newsletter with an article by Laura A. Kaster and in an column in the … Continue reading Binders Full of Women Arbitrators
On the news and the blogs for the last few days has been a very impressive response to a nasty email in my home state of Wisconsin. (See Huff Post story here that has both the original segment from Tuesday and the Today Show segment from Wednesday. ) Many of us teaching negotiation talk about email communication, the … Continue reading Email Nastiness–and one very eloquent response
I have always liked well-known SAIS Professor Bill Zartman’s theory of mutually hurting stalemate as an explanation of when a dispute become ripe for resolution. Bill has usually applied this theory to international disputes but, on Monday night, while watching the Packers win, I was able to see this concept applied to a different kind of … Continue reading Football’s Ripe Moment (aka The Packers Actually Won)
