Jayashri Srikanthiah (Stanford) and Jan Martinez (Stanford) recently published an article entitled Applying Negotiations Pedagogy to Clinical Teaching: Tools for Institutional Client Representation in Law School Clinics. It can be found at 21 Clinical L. Rev. 283 (2014), but it is not online just yet.  It should be appearing here soon. Law clinics across the country … Continue reading Srikanthiah and Martinez – Applying Negotiations Pedagogy to Clinical Teaching: Tools for Institutional Client Representation in Law School Clinics →

The indefatigable Alyson Carrel (Northwestern) reflects on Amy Poehler’s new book Yes, Please, which, like all roads, leads to dispute resolution. ————————————————————- The ABA-Dispute Resolution Section just opened registration for the 17th Annual Spring Conference in Seattle, April 2015. One of the sessions that has been popular over the last couple years is called “What … Continue reading Carrel: Yes, Please – Can Improv Improve Responses to Ethical Dilemmas? →

A few years ago a provocative paper looking at the legal implications of the “F” word received lots of attention and notoriety.  Now another paper is making the rounds, “Get Me Off Your F-ing Mailing List,” a paper accepted for publication in The International Journal of Advanced Computer Technology. In 2005 a couple of computer … Continue reading My New Favorite Academic Article →

From FOI Lela Love (Cardozo) – dispatches from the Melnick Symposium at Cardozo – Is Mediation a Sleeping Beauty? On November 2, 2014, at the Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution fall symposium, speaker after speaker asked “Is Mediation a Sleeping Beauty?” It was a taking stock event with luminaries from the field seeing this as a … Continue reading Love: Is Mediation A Sleeping Beauty? →

Peter B. “Bo” Rutledge has been named Dean at the University of Georgia School of Law.  Press release here.  Congrats Bo !! By my count, here are the ADR Deans off the top of my head: Brown (Quinnipiac),  Guthrie (Vandy), Kloppenberg (Santa Clara), and our very own Moffit (Oregon).  Now we add Paul (Montana) and … Continue reading Another new ADR Dean – Bo Rutledge →

California State University – Dominguez Hills is searching for two faculty members in its Negotiation, Conflict Resolution, and Peacebuilding Program.  The first position is for the Director of the Program, which would include being a tenured professor. Two blurbs from the announcement: The Position – Serve as director of the program; provide course scheduling, curriculum … Continue reading Cal-State Dominguez Hills is Hiring →

Donna Erez Navot (Wisconsin) recently published an article entitled Tools for the Clinical Professor: Applying Group Development Theory to Collaborative Learning in Law School Mediation Clinics. An abstract is below and the article can be downloaded here.   This article examines the theory of group development and collaborative learning as applied to the small group … Continue reading Navot on Tools for the Clinical Professor →

John’s interesting post below leads me to ask a definitional question, what is puffing?  Some people believe it to be a broad term describing all dissembling in negotiation and other see it more narrowly, simply as exaggerating the positive qualities of an item.  It sounds like John’s definition is the former, while David Hoffman, author … Continue reading What is puffing? →

What a fun way to celebrate Conflict Resolution Day.  Thanks to both Sharon Press (Hamline) and Bobbi McAdoo (Hamline) for sending it along.  And did I get a glimpse of Sharon in that video?  

On Friday Michael Wheeler (Harvard Business School) and I will headlining a program at Northwestern University School of Law entitled Negotiation Ethics and Improvisation (program and registration info here).  For those who don’t already know, Michael’s book The Art of Negotiation: How to Improvise Agreement in a Chaotic World, is a great addition to the … Continue reading Negotiation Ethics and Improvisation →