Perhaps your university has asked you, as a dispute resolution expert, what can be done quickly in a fall semester orientation or another one- to two-hour context. If so, the Divided Community Project at the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law offers colleges and universities two new videos with accompanying checklists and a facilitation … Continue reading DCP Provides Resources for Teaching Students How to Manage Difficult Conversations →

I hope that you will share with your campus leaders a new tabletop simulation from the Divided Community Project — and maybe even offer to use your dispute resolution skills to facilitate the simulation and debrief for them. Your campus leaders can use “Tranquil Springs University” to check their readiness for a range of challenges … Continue reading DCP Offers Simulation to Prepare Campus Leaders for Challenges →

Janet Martinez, the former Director of Stanford Law School’s Gould Negotiation and Mediation Program, will deliver the 2024 Schwartz Lecture on Dispute Resolution on March 20, 2024 at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law.  Titled “System Design for Contemporary Justice”, the lecture will begin at 12:10 ET and conclude at or before 1:20.  … Continue reading Janet Martinez to deliver OSU’s 2024 Schwartz Lecture →

Groups of students in your classes may want to put their new collaborative skills and creativity into the service of others by entering a new student video contest, sponsored by the AAA-ICDR Foundation and the Divided Community Project’s #CampusBridge initiative. Please spread the word in your classes and share the contest announcement with your university’s … Continue reading Amazing Opportunity for Students to Improve Their Communities Using DR Skills →

Last month I sent you Leading a Divided Campus: Ideas and Illustrations and a checklist for students to extend support to their friends. I write today about a resource just published — Joint Campus-Law Enforcement Preparation for Campus Demonstrations and Hate Incidents amid Violence in the Middle East: Ideas for an Agenda, https://go.osu.edu/dcpgle. We in … Continue reading Joint Campus-Law Enforcement Preparation for Campus Demonstrations and Hate Incidents amid Violence in the Middle East: Ideas for an Agenda →

In November, OSU’s Divided Community Project responded to a request from the AAA-ICDR Foundation to provide student- and campus-focused resources for campus leaders dealing with the effects of the violence in the Middle East.  The project’s first deliverable from their #CampusBridge initiative is a guide, Leading a Divided Campus: Ideas and Illustrations, accessible at https://go.osu.edu/dcpcampus. The … Continue reading New Divided Community Project Resources for Campus Leaders →

As we all know and appreciate, the war in the Middle East is affecting our students deeply, yet unevenly. The Divided Community Project has worked with students at Moritz to create a simple, relatable checklist that encourages students to extend support to other students. Please utilize this checklist, share it throughout your university, or to … Continue reading DCP at Moritz Offers Further Guidance for Universities during a Time of Conflict →

Moritz’s Divided Community Project posted a checklist to help Campus Leaders when divisive incidents, like the issues currently raging in the Middle East, arise. Please feel free to use and share widely: https://go.osu.edu/dcpclcl

Maria Volpe notes that a new publication from the Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, confuses arbitration and mediation. Sad to see this. From the handbook: Important Qualities for Arbitrators, Mediators, and Conciliators• Critical-thinking skills. Arbitrators, mediators, and conciliators must apply rules of law. They must remain neutral and not let their own personal … Continue reading Department of Labor Confuses Arbitration and Mediation →

In Wallrich, et al. v. Samsung, Case No. 22-CV-5506 (N.D. Ill. Sept. 12, 2023), federal district court judge Harry D. Leinenweber ordered Samsung to pay arbitration fees for almost 50,000 arbitration demands – and submit to arbitrating consumers’ claims that Samsung had committed violations of the Illinois privacy laws. Note that the court required this … Continue reading Hoisted By Their Own Petard: Samsung Must Pay Arbitration Fees in Mass Arbitration →