A few weeks ago, Kathleen Parker, a writer for the Washington Post, likened Obama to a woman because of his negotiation style, calling him the first female president. (See the article here.) Confronted with crises and criticisms, our President hasn’t responded in the alpha dog style of many male politicians. Instead, he’s a listener and … Continue reading Obama’s “Feminine” Communication Style
Below is a call for papers from the International Economic Law Interest Group of the ASIL. Recently the group has focused more and more on dispute resolution–both consensual and arbitration–as an issue of economic law and so I think there could well be DR professors whose work falls squarely in this field. Having started early on … Continue reading Call for Papers–International Economic Law
This morning our Marquette Foreclosure Mediation Program was singled out as a primary reason that the Mayor of Milwaukee won a public policy award for “Innovative Response to Economic Downturn” from the Public Policy Forum and last week the MFMP won “Lawyer of the Year” from the Milwaukee Bar Association. Not a bad week! I … Continue reading Theory to Practice (and the lovely results)
I am delighted to announce that Paul Kirgis will be joining our blog. Paul’s previous blogs have always been interesting and helpful and I know that he will add an important financial element to our understanding. Paul is the Faculty Chair of the Hugh L. Carey Center for Dispute Resolution at St. John’s University School of … Continue reading Introducing New Blogger Paul Kirgis
In honor of my students turning in their final Negotiation journals today and in the spirit of my former dean who would post his first year law school grades just to remind us all that he was human, I wanted to share a recent negotiation failure. (Just because we teach it, doesn’t mean we get … Continue reading Negotiation Failures
In my final ethics class last week, as we were ending the course with some discussion on how to choose law firms, balance life and work, etc, we also discussed how to deal with zinger/illegal/offensive interview questions. The problem in the book was a classic–what would you do if the partner interviewing you for a … Continue reading Job Interviews, Offensive Questions, and Effective Responses
So I have taken a week to think about how to blog about a session that I saw last weekend at the ABA Conference. The session was about using movies to demonstrate gender differences in negotiation and I went to see what teaching tools might be provided. I was on the negotiation program track for the … Continue reading Gender Frustrations
Following up on an interesting session on “Teaching the ADR Survey Class” at the ABA meeting last weekend in San Francisco, I wanted to post a couple links for people more interested in using videotapes and other interactive media in teaching their class. First, courtesy of Vivian Hilder at Manitoba, I link here to a … Continue reading Videos and Other Ideas for the ADR Survey Class
I participated earlier this week in a fabulous conference at Washington & Lee discussing the current system of investment arbitration and ways that this system could be improved. In an earlier post, I described how this conference was billed as a mix of pracitioners and academics and the panels were just that. On my panel, … Continue reading Designing New Processes for Investment Disputes?
The following is a post from Natalie Fleury, the dispute program manager here at Marquette about an incident last weekend: I was the victim of a walk by insult last weekend, and I’ve been trying to process my thoughts and feelings about it. After church on Sunday (I’ll discuss the church part in a minute), … Continue reading Walk By Insults & Political Discourse
