I have known Forrest (Woody) Mosten for quite a while. He co-authored several articles on collaborative law with me, putting him at risk of tarnishing his stellar reputation. We also co-authored an article, Family Lawyering: Past, Present, and Future. Much more significantly, Woody is known as the “father of unbundling” (as well as being a … Continue reading Mosten and Scully’s New Book on Unbundled Legal Services
I’m looking at a new year’s card printed by my friend, Steve Harris, proprietor of Hands Press in Berkeley, that really expresses the values of our community. Let us hope that these values will be increasingly honored in the coming year. Happy New Year Wishing You a New Year Filled With Old-Fashioned Values: kindness modesty … Continue reading New Year’s Greeting
Jacqueline N. Font-Guzmán, director of Creighton’s Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Program, wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post entitled, Puerto Ricans are Hardly U.S. Citizens. They are Colonial Subjects. It reviews the history of how Puerto Ricans gained US citizenship without self-determination. Click the title of this post to see the link and take a look.
Stacey-Rae Simcox, who is director of Stetson’s Veteran’s Advocacy Clinic, used a Stone Soup assignment in her Trusts & Estates course. This is a great illustration of how faculty can use Stone Soup in almost any law school course, not just traditional ADR courses. As an extra-credit assignment, 45 out of 67 students conducted … Continue reading Stone Soup Assessment: Stacey-Rae Simcox’s Trusts & Estates Course
In June, Rafael Gely and I, the co-directors of the Stone Soup Project, decided to shift our approach from our original plan of a centralized database to a decentralized set of experimental efforts to produce knowledge about actual practice – aka letting a thousand chefs cook. I recently talked with many of the faculty who … Continue reading Stone Soup: A Thousand Great Chefs
Recently, Susan Yates and I conducted mediation trainings on behalf of the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire, the New Hampshire Judicial Branch Office of Mediation and Arbitration, and the University of New Hampshire, School of Law. As part of the trainings, we collected survey data and focus-group-like comments from … Continue reading Takeaways From New Hampshire Mediation Training
Recently, Susan Yates and I conducted mediation trainings on behalf of the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire, the New Hampshire Judicial Branch Office of Mediation and Arbitration, and the University of New Hampshire, School of Law. As part of the trainings, we collected survey data and focus-group-like comments from … Continue reading Stone Soup: Model for Gathering Data at Continuing Education Programs
The Stone Soup Project is a collaborative effort to develop and share knowledge, not only about actual practice of dispute resolution and law, but also about pedagogical techniques to maximize the benefit from Stone Soup assignments and activities. Faculty using Stone Soup are assessing how well it worked in their courses and providing advice … Continue reading Stone Soup Course Assessments
Peter Phillips, the director of New York Law School’s ADR Skills Program, used Stone Soup in his negotiation course this semester. In his assessment, he wrote that the interview assignment was an excellent fit for his course, which helped students see in practice the theory they learned in class. He told me that students … Continue reading Stone Soup Assessment: Peter Phillips’s Negotiation Course
We all say that preparation is important – it’s more popular than mom and apple pie – but we have only vague ideas about how people actually consider possible alternatives. This includes the negotiators themselves. We sometimes list general factors or approaches, but usually that’s as far as we get. I will go out on … Continue reading Stone Soup: Learning How People Actually Prepare for Negotiation and Mediation
