It has been 10 days since my grandmother’s funeral and I have been, if not enjoying this past week, definitely enjoying telling stories about her life and her influence on her grandchildren. She died at age 99, laying down to take a rest because she did not feel well—the Torah writes that those who die in their … Continue reading Lessons from my Grandmother
With the 20th anniversary of the tearing down of the Berlin Wall yesterday, I have been reflecting a lot on divides. I was lucky enough to spend a year working in Germany, from August 1988 to May 1989, in Cologne for the year between college and law school. And, although it killed me not to get … Continue reading Take Down This Wall
Following up to yesterday’s post on gender in different countries around the world, a student sent me a great article about how women in Mexico are dealing with the problem of their gendered context in which male cab drivers generally leer at and make comments about the women in their taxi. In the city of … Continue reading Pink Taxi Power
My last blog post about the conference in Istanbul is on gender. The first conference of this project was last May in Rome, resulting in a book, Rethinking Negotiation Teaching, and a set of articles for the Negotiation Journal. One of the purposes of these conferences is to encourage, if not mandate, cross-disciplinary author teams. So, … Continue reading Gender in the Mediterranean
As I wrote about last week, I was at a negotiation conference in Istanbul where we were given assignments to actually negotiate in the Spice Market. Melissa Manwaring, who used to work with the Program on Negotiation and is now a professor at Babson College, came up with the great idea of each person from her group of … Continue reading Does the Ayres Study Work in Istanbul?
I just returned from a conference in Istanbul, which was the second of three conferences on the next generation of negotiation teaching. It was fascinating; and I will have several posts in the next few days about different pieces of it. One of the most interesting concepts behind this conference was the opportunity to take … Continue reading Adventure Learning in Turkey
In a nice shout-out for us, this blog was listed as one of the top 100 professor blogs by onlinecollege. As they write, “Online students have a lot to learn online, and you can find great knowledge from professors’ blogs. Whether they’re about science or political science, you’ll find something interesting on each of these blogs. Read … Continue reading Top 100 Professor Blogs
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
