As readers of this blog know, I lost my grandmother last fall. It was sad, but not tragic. After all, she was 99 and lived a long productive happy life. Last week, I (and my siblings) received a very formal letter from a lawyer with an enclosure—under Pennsylvania law, where my grandmother lived, beneficiaries of her … Continue reading Empathy Anyone?
The following post comes from Karen Halverson Cross at John Marshall Law School in Chicago. Karen participated in the Works in Progress Conference last fall and this is the very timely paper following from it. My paper, ”Letting the Arbitrator Decide? Unconscionability and the Allocation of Authority between Courts and Arbitrators,” addresses a topic that … Continue reading Letting the Arbitrator Decide Unconscionability
I am just returning from UNLV’s wonderful conference on Conflict Resolution in a time of Economic Crisis. We (myself & Natalie Fleury, our program manager for dispute resolution here at Marquette) were part of a panel talking about foreclosure mediation around the country. Speakers on our panel discussed Ohio, Florida, Nevada in addition to ours. … Continue reading Foreclosure Mediation Program Differences?
I was listening to a great story this morning on NPR which described an interesting experiment. In his book How We Decide, and in a recent Wall Street Journal article, Jonah Lehrer writes about an experiment by Stanford University professor Baba Shiv, who collected several dozen undergraduates and divided them into two groups. In the WSJ … Continue reading Chocolate Cake v. Fruit–Or Why Get Emotional During “Rational” Negotiations
Although the New York State Bar Association has now changed it planned panel for the upcoming meeting next week, this is still a doozy. Here is Bridget Crawford from the Feminist Law Prof blog last week: The Committee on Women in the Law is sponsoring a program called “Weathering Tough Times: Strategic Planning for Your Practice.” The … Continue reading The New York State Bar’s Approach to Teaching Women Communication Skills–Are You Kidding Me?
Yes…and they should! Coming back from the WIP conference this past November at Harvard, one of the most interesting conversations was a late night one between several professors—men & women—about teaching gender in a negotiation class. Now that the new semester is starting up, I wanted to bring this topic up again. As others have … Continue reading Can Guys Teach Gender?
Because I was screaming so much at the television yesterday during the Steelers-Packers game…. It was hard to outscream my three boys but I am proud to say that I am up to the task (my students would not doubt this ability). Following up on my post from last February on football mania, there is definitely something … Continue reading I Can’t Speak
A fun article in the NYT last week (hat tip to Bobbi McAdoo for sending this along) noted a new way of taking advantage of those too inebriated to turn down empirical scientists–run experiments on them! The scientists were interested in how the ultimatum game works when people are a little fuzzy in their thinking. The ultimatum … Continue reading Drinking Games and Negotiation
Melissa Manwaring asked me to post a brief announcement regarding the great “On Teaching” columns in the Negotiation Journal. I often find these columns incredibly helpful so I hope that some of us take her up on the offer below: Negotiation Journal (published by the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School and Blackwell Publishing) … Continue reading Negotiation Journal Seeks Submissions
Last week’s coverage of the pending purchase of NBC by cable giant Comcast reminded me of Jamie Moffitt’s paper presented at the Works in Progress conference last month. Jamie’s article, entitled Merging in the Shadow of the Law: Why Judicial Efficiency Analysis Matters examines current judicial interpretation of Section 7 of the Clayton Act through the lens of … Continue reading Is NBC Bargaining in the Shadow of Fuzzy Antitrust Law?
