Have you written a will? Do you have a list (and pictures) of insurable items in your home? Probably not if you are typical. We don’t like to think about negative future events and so we avoid planning for them. Of course, that doesn’t actually solve the problem. Last weekend, I served on a panel … Continue reading Anticipating the Worst
Art Hinshaw at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University announced the dates set for the next round of Works-in-Progress conference. It will be the weekend of October 24th and 25th. As Art said, “Join us and present your recent scholarship or works in progress, get feedback from colleagues, and learn … Continue reading Works-in-Progress Conference 2008
A few weeks ago, Marquette Law School hosted the groundbreaking on a new law school building (in the slideshow, note the really cute picture of our DR program manager Natalie Fleury with her two kids!). I have been working with the architects as part of faculty committees and the technology committee to really think about … Continue reading Law School Building of the Future?
As President Bush visited Israel last week on the occasion of Israel’s 60th Anniversary of its founding, the President and Israeli Prime Minister Olmert met to discuss prospects of working out a peace deal. The lead negotiators for each country–Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni–are both women. And, while the … Continue reading Women Negotiating the Middle East Peace
The New York Times yesterday had a front page article on how doctors have discovered that saying “I’m sorry” for medical mistakes makes a lot of sense. There is part of me that says “It’s about time!” Many of us in the field have known about this phenomenon for some time based on the research … Continue reading I’m Sorry Actually Works
David Hoffman published an op-ed yesterday in the Christian Science Monitor about why it might have been a good idea to mediate the deal between Microsoft and Yahoo rather than watching it fall apart. As David writes, “When Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer met with Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang earlier this month, what kept them from … Continue reading Mediating Between Microsoft and Yahoo?
So, in the middle of grading this week, I’ve been interviewing research assistants for the summer. Each candidate had to come to the interview with a negotiation story and a lawyer joke (mostly for the purposes of cheering me up during grading!) The following joke is the winner and also a great argument for why … Continue reading Lawyer Jokes & Mediation Confidentiality
I am linking you here to a terrific blog post on a report of an incident that occurred last week at Knox College where John Ashcroft was speaking. During the questioning period after his speech (which was interrupted numerous times) a young woman (daughter of a friend of a friend) asked Ashcroft a terrific question … Continue reading Getting Yelled at by John Ashcroft
I have a good way to avoid grading exams on dispute resolution and, instead, have fun playing with disputes. Let me explain: a few weeks ago at the ABA Section on Dispute Resolution meeting, I participated in a panel on the use of videogames and dispute resolution with Professor Jean Sternlight and Kathleen Goodrich. I … Continue reading Play the News
Divided We Fall is the title of Nick Kristof’s op-ed piece in the New York Times this past Thursday using the political debates as a lovely example of how we all like to view the world from our own little belltower. For those of us who have taught ladder of inference, partisan perceptions, and the … Continue reading Divided We Fall
