Last week, we were privileged to hear Professor Michael Klarman speak on Why Brown v. Board of Education Was a Hard Case. This was one of the most enjoyable and interesting talks I have heard in a long time–I highly recommend it and you can click here to get the webcast. My guess is that this … Continue reading Brown v. Board of Education as a Disputing Process Lesson
Last week I had the honor of joining my colleague Janine Geske on her regular journey to Green Bay Correctional Facility, a maximum security prison reminiscent of the prison in Shawshank Redemption. The prisoners at Green Bay run the gamut of serious crimes from sexual assault to drug distribution to armed robbery to homicide. Janine … Continue reading Go to Prison
The Works-in-Progress conference is still accepting abstracts and I want to strongly encourage everyone to think about adding this to their agenda for the fall. The announcement is below and feel free to email me with any questions: Call for Papers and Abstracts Works in Progress Conference AALS Dispute Resolution Section November 13-14, 2009 … Continue reading Works in Progress Conference at Harvard
This week, Time Magazine had a great article on haggling during the recession. (Thanks to Jerry Olivo for sending this along.) Although apparently we don’t usually negotiate retail items, the recession has encouraged plenty of shoppers to dust off those negotiation skills and try to negotiate items that are typically not open for discussion. Think you … Continue reading Recession Haggling
Finally up for air after a terrific training yesterday for our new volunteer attorney-mediators, I am delighted to announce that Marquette will be starting a Milwaukee Foreclosure Mediation Program. You can link here for the website giving the background details (generous funding by the city and state–see the announcement by the dean here) and also to … Continue reading Milwaukee Foreclosure Mediation Program Kickoff
I am delighted to post the following announcement from Bob Mnookin. Bob will be hosting this year’s Works-in-Progress conference at Harvard. Our first two conferences have been informative, helpful and lots of fun. I am sure that pattern will continue! Dear Colleague, I’m pleased to announce that this fall the Program on Negotiation at … Continue reading Third Annual Dispute Resolution Works-In-Progress Conference at Harvard this fall–Call for Papers
This is a posting courtesy of Lisa Bingham–thanks for sending it along! Last week, I was on a conference call with senior White House officials in the Office of Science and Technology Policy (Beth Noveck, Deputy Chief Technology Officer for Open Government, and Greg Nelson, Associate Director White House Office of Public Engagement). I write to share … Continue reading Obama Open Government Initiative
Following up on my post regarding email negotiation last week, tthe ABA Journal noted this week that there are limits on the use of social spaces in order to gather information: A lawyer who wants to see what a potential witness says to personal contacts on his or her Facebook or MySpace page has one … Continue reading More Advice for Online Contact
From Dwight Golann, this is the follow-up to a great session at the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution meeting. First, I am linking to the ABA and Goldberg/Shaw studies on Mediator Quality which served as background for the Shoptalk session. These are both on John Barkai’s website as well. Second, below are the summaries of the … Continue reading Mediation ShopTalk
This past semester, my students participated in an email negotiation with students from Hastings & Boalt law schools which turned out to be quite interesting for them and for me reading their journals afterwards. It is always lovely to write an article–it’s even nicer to see that what you write might actually be happening in reality as … Continue reading You’ve Got @greement–Email Negotiation Advice
