Okay, I was drawn like a moth to a  flame (or more like watching a car accident) to keep on NBC after the closing ceremonies and watch The Marriage Ref last night under the deluded hope that maybe this would be a tv show with dispute resolution in action.  The tag line for this lovely … Continue reading The Marriage Ref? →

 I am happy to post the following call for proposals for next year’s AALS meeting:  CALL FOR PROPOSALS  AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF LAW SCHOOLS – 2011 Conference, Jan 5-9th A Joint Program of the Sections on Balance in Legal Education and Academic Support Co-Sponsored by the Section on Student Services   Theme:  “Beyond Humanizing:  Can – and … Continue reading AALS Call for Papers–Happy Law Students? →

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 →