Maureen Weston (Pepperdine) provides this intriguing post from the Ofer military base in Israel. The conflict over the sacred land in the West Bank, which includes East Jerusalem, in Israel is deeply rooted and profoundly intense.  This region has been under rule by the Turks in the Ottoman Empire (1517- 1917), Britain (1917-48), Jordan (1948-67), … Continue reading DR Faculty Seminar in Israel – Israel’s Military Courts: Adjudicating Alleged (Palestinian) Crime and Terror in the West Bank and Gaza →

This guest post comes from one of the blogs founders, Nancy Welsh (Texas A&M). Dr. Moshe Ma’oz is Professor Emeritus of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and was Director of the University’s Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace.  His presentation explored the complexity of Israel’s … Continue reading DR Faculty Seminar in Israel – I Don’t Recognize My Country Any More →

This guest post is authored by our good friend Michael T. Colatrella, Jr. (McGeorge). On the sixth day of our trip, we met with an Israeli security and negotiation expert Ron Schatzberg. Ron works for the Tel Aviv-based think tank, the Economic Cooperation Foundation (ECF), whose mission is to promote a stable, peaceful and prosperous … Continue reading DR Faculty Seminar in Israel – Welcome to the Mouth of the Volcano →

This afternoon we had the pleasure of meeting with Amos Hausner, the son of Gideon Hausner, the prosecutor in the Adolf Eichmann trial – what many believe to be the trial of the 20th century.                      Gideon Hausner                                       Adolf Eichmann For readers wondering who Eichmann was, he was a Nazi officer who … Continue reading DR Faculty Seminar in Israel – Revisiting the Eichmann Trial →

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 →