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
About a month ago I posted information about ASU’s Aspiring Law Professors Conference, a conference for those who are preparing to go onto the law professor job market and those who are thinking about becoming a law professor. I’ve always thought it was a good conference to attend, but naturally I am biased. So I … Continue reading ASU Aspiring Law Professors Conference – Reviewed
Lisa Blomgren Amsler (Indiana) and I are quoted in a recent Indiana Lawyer article entitled Dealing with Differing Perceptions of Reality. The piece asks the question of whether mediators should be responsible for the disputing parties’ honesty during the mediation process. You can probably imagine where the two of us stand on the issue. What … Continue reading Dealing with Different Perceptions of Reality
John Lande (Missouri) is someone who should need no introduction to readers of this blog as he’s been involved in just about every academic and professional ADR group and initiative over the years. John’s work has touched on so many facets of the field – negotiation, mediation, collaborative law, and Dispute Systems Design – not … Continue reading Introducing a New Contributor – John Lande
