The New York Times last week posted this article about how costumes reveal much about the lawyers wearing them. (See article & pictures here) Apparently, a lawyers for a foreclosure law firm in upstate New York thought it would be hilarious and appropriate to dress up as the homeless or poor for their annual Halloween party. … Continue reading Halloween Evils?
So I have been working on a book chapter stemming from the Beijing conference on Rethinking Negotiation last May concerning differences in negotiation behavior that we observed between Chinese law students and U.S. law students. I’m not ready to post on the chapter yet (!), but I did recently come across two different quotes and … Continue reading Lincoln v. Confucius: Shedding Light on Cross-Cultural Ethics?
Last week, we had wonderful talk entitled Blowing the Whistle on Whistleblowing Laws. Attorney Charles L. (Chuck) Howard is one of the few attorneys in the U.S. with extensive expertise in the legal issues of ombudsmen. Howard has a national practice in representing organizational ombudsmen at universities, multinational corporations, and research institutions. His new book, entitled The Organizational … Continue reading Ombuds Perspective on Whistleblowing Laws
I was delighted to see that the Werner Institute at Creighton University School of Law in Omaha, Nebraska has announced that the deadline for submitting proposals for the 2011 AALS Works-in-Progress Conference has been extended to September 30. This will provide an opportunity for scholars who were unable to submit their proposal by the initial … Continue reading Works-in-Progress Conference–Deadline Extended
FOI Jean Sternlight has just announced a symposium in which I expect our blog readers will be interested. The focus is democracy in the workplace, and the symposium will be interdisciplinary in nature. See the below call for papers for details. As Jean notes, Las Vegas is quite nice in February! UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS WILLIAM S. … Continue reading UNLV Law School Saltman Center Call for Papers–Democracy and the Workplace
Susan Franck has sent along this conference announcement for what looks like a really wonderful opportunity. The Institute for Transnational Arbitration – which is one of the leading institutes for the education and promotion of international arbitration in the world – is holding its First Annual Winter Forum this February in San Francisco. As Susan writes, … Continue reading Conference at the Institute for Transnational Arbitration
I am delighted to post this guest post courtesy of Brian Pappas: The summer of 2012 was an interesting one for our negotiator-in-chief. On July 13th, a Politico article (“President Obama abruptly walks out of debt ceiling talks “) describes a president willing to use both integrative (collaborative) and distributive (competitive) negotiation tactics. On the … Continue reading As Negotiator-in-Chief, Obama Needs to Better Manage his BATNA
In a blog post today on Forbes, blogger Victoria Pynchon of She Negotiates interviews Carrie Menkel-Meadow on the debt crisis negotiations. As Menkel-Meadow explains, the current political crisis demonstrates that where self-interest (or party-interest) dominates (if we can’t rule, we’ll ruin) negotiation seeking integrative solutions or bargaining for trades and compromises may be difficult to … Continue reading Advice to Obama from an Expert Negotiator
This is a friendly reminder from our friends at Creighton that the Works-in-Progress Conference is still accepting submissions. The conference, is hosted this year by The Werner Institute at Creighton University School of Law in Omaha, Nebraska. The WIP is a tradition started five years ago that provides a great opportunity for ADR scholars to share current research, receive … Continue reading Reminder–Works-in-Progress Conference
In Dallas last week, a court overturned a $22 million (!) arbitration decision because the arbitrator had failed to disclose that he had socialized with one of the lawyers. As the Wall Street Journal law blog reported: Arbitration awards, as most litigators know, are very difficult to overturn on appeal. That’s why a Dallas appellate court’s … Continue reading Arbitrator’s Social Life Overturns Award
