From TFOIs Deborah Eisenberg and Toby Guerin: Dear Colleagues: Many of you knew Roger Wolf, the visionary founder of our Center for Dispute Resolution and the Mediation Clinic at Maryland Carey Law, and a true trail-blazer in the ADR field in Maryland and nationally. He passed away last weekend. Below is a beautiful tribute written … Continue reading Passing of Roger Wolf
This post is for colleagues who will use a Stone Soup assignment this coming semester or are considering doing so. We now have posts with assessments of 25 course offerings, which include the Stone Soup assignments that faculty used. Some posts include additional documents. Faculty and students using Stone Soup have exceeded our expectations. Faculty … Continue reading Suggestions for Using Stone Soup in Your Courses
Gemma Smyth is the Externship Program Director for the University of Windsor Faculty of Law, in Canada, which has a long tradition of focusing on access to justice. Windsor is so committed to this mission that it requires all students to take an Access to Justice course in their first semester. Gemma is one … Continue reading Stone Soup Assessment: Gemma Smyth’s Access to Justice Course
EFOI Susan M. Yates, the executive director of Resolution Systems Institute, penned a dispute-resolution themed Christmas song, which she posted on RSI’s blog. Hopefully, this will add to your holiday cheer. Thanks to GFOI Jim Alfini for this suggestion. (Click the title to access the song.)
Here’s an exercise that TFOI Ben Davis uses and wants to share. I just came across a tool that might be of interest on building arbitration clauses. The only thing that I would add would be a reminder about Frederic Eisemann’s article on Pathological Arbitration Clauses (La Clause d’arbitrage pathologique, Commercial Arbitration Essays in Memoriam … Continue reading Ben Davis: Fun with Technology, Arbitration Clauses and a Mock International Commercial Arbitration
It would be hard to be more enthusiastic about Stone Soup than Carolyn Wilkes (Carrie) Kaas, the Co-Director of Quinnipiac’s Center on Dispute Resolution, Director of Experiential Education, as well as Director of Concentration Programs in Family Law and Civil Advocacy and Dispute Resolution. These days, she also teaches Quinnipiac’s Externship Program. Like a … Continue reading Stone Soup Assessment: Carrie Kaas’s Externship Course
This post describes how Stone Soup pioneers used four different approaches in their mediation courses. Once again, it demonstrates colleagues’ creativity and the great potential for Stone Soup. Charlie Irvine had 20 LLM / MSc students and he assigned them to interview a mediator about a recent case. Students were required to write papers … Continue reading Stone Soup Assessment: A Tale of Four Mediation Courses, by Charlie Irvine, Jim Levin, Martha Simmons, and Doug Yarn
This post describes five different approaches to using Stone Soup in ADR courses. It reflects the incredible flexibility of this project and the creativity of faculty in tailoring Stone Soup assignments to fit their goals and circumstances. Even when the assignments don’t work as planned, we can learn valuable lessons from these experiences. Andrea … Continue reading Stone Soup Assessment: A Tale of Five ADR Courses, by Andrea Schneider, Bob Ackerman, Becky Jacobs, Doug Yarn, and Derrick Howard
I am extremely fortunate that Rafael Gely, the director of Missouri’s Center for the Study of Dispute Resolution, has been my partner in developing the Stone Soup Project. A year ago, when I first emailed him about it, the subject line was “a crazy idea?” Rafael’s immediate response was, “I love this idea! (Of … Continue reading Stone Soup Assessment: Rafael Gely’s Negotiation Course
Much legal education in the US is like telling someone how to ride a bike or having them read an instruction manual. It’s important, but most people wouldn’t get very far if that’s all you did. You could simply give them a bike and tell them to go, but that could lead to some … Continue reading Stone Soup Assessment: Bob Dauber’s Evidence Course
