This guest blog post comes courtesy of Lydia Nussbaum (UNLV). This afternoon we visited the Ziv Medical Center in Zafet (aka Safed, Tzfat), a small hilltop town located on the hills above the Sea of Galilee. Although Zafet has a long history and is well known for being the center of Jewish mysticism (Kabbalah), our … Continue reading DR Faculty Seminar in Israel—“Medicine has no borders” at Ziv Hospital, Zafet
Ms. Tzipi Livini has served in 8 separate cabinet positions including Minister of Justice and former Minister of Foreign Affairs (01-09). She is a Member of the Knesset and is the current leader of the Zionist Union party. She is one of, if not the, leading proponents of the 2 state solution in Israeli politics … Continue reading DR Faculty Seminar in Israel – Tzipi Livini, Member of Knessset
Our one and only Andrea Schneider is well known for organizing trips to various places for her students, Israel and Cuba to name a few, and she regularly blogs about those trips. This time she’s organized a trip to Israel for US Dispute Resolution Scholars both to give us the adventure learning treatment and to … Continue reading Academic Partners for Peace, Dispute Resolution Law Faculty Seminar in Israel
Today on NPR’s Morning Edition StoryCore interview, the father of a victim of a school shooting (Greg Gibson) and the shooter who killed his son (Wayne Lo) talked about the event and their lives 25 years after the incident. Gibson wrote a book about the event and he talked to everyone – except for Lo. … Continue reading Restorative Justice and Apologies
Scholastica, the service many of us use to disseminate our articles to law reviews, recently interviewed Donna Shestowsky (UC-Davis) about her work on litigant awareness of court ADR programs. Here’s the interview in full. Imagine waiting a year or more to go to trial for a civil dispute that could have been resolved in less … Continue reading Scholastica interview with Shestowsky
If you didn’t see the blog or the listserv a little over a week ago, you missed the announcements of two major awards. Carol Izumi (UC-Hastings) received the William Pincus Award for outstanding service and commitment to clinical legal education, the highest award the AALS’s Clinical Section bestows. And, Carrie Menkel-Meadow (UC-Irvine) received the ABA … Continue reading Recent Major Law Faculty Awards
From Donna Erez-Navot at Cardozo. Dear Dispute Resolution Community:Dear Dispute Resolution Community: The Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution is very excited to announce that the 2017 Jed D. Melnick Symposium, Persistent Human Divides: Creative Initiatives for Communication, Collaboration, and Cohesion, will be available to live stream on November 13, 2017! Links to the live stream … Continue reading Live Stream Links: Melnick Symposium – Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution
FOI Alyson Carrel (Northwestern) sends this dispatch from the Stanford Law + Design Summit at Stanford last week. Last Friday, I had the opportunity to attend the Stanford Law + Design Summit hosted by their Legal Design Lab. Although I was invited to attend because of my new role at the law school in legal technology, … Continue reading Carrel on the Stanford Law + Design Summit
I recently posted about the Equifax Fiasco, and am still having problems getting everything straightened out with them. I’m resigned to thinking that when 143 million people try to do something at once, there will always be bottlenecks. FOI Jean Sternlight (UNLV) had a recent op-ed in Law360 discussing how the Equifax Fiasco relates to … Continue reading Sternlight on the Equifax Fiasco
By now you’ve probably heard that Equifax was hacked and the personal data for approximately half the country has been compromised. Naturally, you should check to see if you were affected here. I’m proud to say that I’m potentially affected and scheduled to work with them on Wednesday – yay! On Friday evening on the … Continue reading The Equifax Fiasco and Dispute Resolution – updated
