From AFOI Nancy Welsh: I’m happy to report that we have posted more video conversations arising out of Texas A&M’s symposium on “ADR’s Place in Navigating a Polarized Era.” You can find them here (scroll down to Current Events), along with links to the symposium articles in the Texas A&M Law Review and the Ohio … Continue reading More Video Conversations – ADR’s Place in Navigating a Polarized Era
From BFOI Elayne Greenberg: Please join me in congratulating the 2021 Dispute Resolution Advancement Award Winners Avital Mentovich, Professor at University of Haifa’s School of Criminology, J.J. Prescott, the Henry King Ransom Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School, and Orna Rabinovich-Einy, Associate Professor on the Law Faculty at the University Haifa … Continue reading 2021 Dispute Resolution Advancement Award Winners
From TFOI Brian Jarrett: You are invited to our 11th Annual International Cyber-Conference on Dispute Resolution, Wed. April 7 @ Noon-2:30 pm (US Pacific Coast Time). Please invite your students, colleagues, and community members to participate in this international event. Each year, the Cyber-conference has promoted a global town-hall style dialogue between students, professors, mediators, … Continue reading 11th Annual International Cyber-conference on Dispute Resolution
From TFOI Rachel Viscomi and Lisa Dicker: After the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and too many other Black Americans, protests across the country built what became one of the largest movements in American history. Yet many activists in the U.S. felt that what resulted were only piecemeal reforms and lip service. … Continue reading New Report on “Power, Protest, and Political Change” from the Harvard Dispute Systems Design Clinic
From GFOI Lela Love The American College of Civil Trial Mediators (ACCTM) is proud to announce the 2021 American Journal of Mediation National Dispute Resolution Writing Competition sponsored by the American College of Civil Trial Mediators. ACCTM is an association of dispute resolution professionals with substantial practice experience as mediators, arbitrators and conflict management neutrals. … Continue reading American Journal Of Mediation National Dispute Resolution Writing Competition
Anna Howard‘s new book, EU Cross-Border Commercial Mediation: Listening to Disputants – Changing the Frame; Framing the Changes, provides valuable insights about business disputing. It reports the findings of her study about mediation of EU cross-border commercial disputes, but the dynamics she describes occur in the US and probably many other countries as well. Anna … Continue reading Anna Howard’s New Book Examines Why Businesses Don’t Use Mediation – And Other Issues
My colleague, Amy Schmitz, and mediate.com CEO Colin Rule announced that they have re-built and re-designed the arbitrate.com website from the ground up to offer a powerful set of updated features and capabilities. Take a look. [Click on the title of this post to access the website.]
My colleague, Amy Schmitz, forwarded links to videos of the 2021 Virtual ODR Forum. Here’s the agenda. The last page has links to the pre-recorded presentations. Here are the full videos from the forum sessions. March 1 morning sessions March 1 afternoon sessions March 2 morning sessions March 2 afternoon sessions [Click the title of … Continue reading ODR Forum Videos
TODAY is the deadline for the EARLY BIRD RATES for the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution virtual conference, which will take place on April 14-17. Click here for more information and to register. [Click the title of the post for the link to the conference website.}
Have you heard? After all the lousy movies and TV shows that provide ghastly depictions of mediation, Fox TV has produced a series, The Mediator with Ice-T that shows the public exactly how mediation works. What Judge Judy et al. do for courts, Ice-T does for mediation. Disputants tell their stories. Ice-T consults experts. Then … Continue reading Finally, A Mediation TV Program That Tells It Like It Is (Not)
