It finally hit me yesterday–it’s not that when you travel, you are likely to negotiate.  We’ve written and talked about that before. (See our posts from our Israel trip here.)  Traveling is  negotiation…. at least in terms of preparation.  So, yesterday morning I was flying out of Harrisburg to get home in time to teach … Continue reading Traveling with your BATNA →

Last week in honor of ABA Mediation Week, the DR Society here hosted former Senator Russell Feingold for a talk on Civility in Public Discourse.  We had a wonderful off-the-record hour (so I can’t tell you all the good stories!–here is me cracking up at one) but what I can say is heartening in terms … Continue reading Senator Feingold on Civility →

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 →