From TFOI Jackie Font-Guzmán: The Werner Institute and the 2040 Initiative at the Creighton University School of Law invite you to a symposium exploring how the 1967 U.S. Supreme Court decision of Loving v. Virginia has influenced society institutionally, demographically and relationally. The symposium, entitled 50 Years of Loving: Seeking Justice Through Love and Relationships, … Continue reading What the World Needs Now
From GFOI Hal Abramson: Dear Friends and Colleagues: This past weekend the Board of Governors selected International Academy of Mediators (IAM)’s new Scholars in Residence (SIR) in light of the fact that our current wonderful scholar, Hal Abramson, is at the end of his tenure with us. Thanks to Hal we have established a durable … Continue reading To SIRs (Lela Love and Dwight Golann) With Love
I know, I know. This sounds like another one of my dumb questions. Actually, it is surprisingly difficult. Consider the following activities. Kids trading baseball cards, parents promising children ice cream if they finish eating their veggies, large groups of friends ordering dinner at a Chinese restaurant, families planning a vacation, tourists haggling at a … Continue reading What is Negotiation, Anyway?
On January 10, President Obama gave his farewell address, which dealt, in part, with building common ground between people divided across so many boundaries. Although some people obviously disagree with President Obama politically, hopefully most people would agree with the following ideas. As I wrote previously, understanding and empathizing with others does not mean that … Continue reading Building Common Ground Between Bubbles – Part 5
Last month, I wrote a post encouraging you to consider using a cool assignment in your courses in which students would interview lawyers about an actual negotiation or other matter. This assignment has several benefits. First, it gives students experience learning about actual negotiations that lawyers have conducted, advancing the goal of preparing students for real-world … Continue reading Documents for the Cool Course Assignment
Fox News host Megyn Kelly made a deal to leave Fox and work for NBC. She was in the enviable position of having a lot of bargaining power considering that she was wooed by ABC and CNN as well as Fox and NBC. NBC chairman Andrew Lack was successful in getting her to sign on … Continue reading High Profile Interest-Based Negotiation
Pace Law Professor Darren Rosenblum published an op-ed in the New York Times describing his experiences with and without laptops in his classroom. He wrote, “When I started teaching, I assumed my ‘fun’ class, sexuality and the law, full of contemporary controversy, would prove gripping to the students. One day, I provoked them with a … Continue reading Do You Want to Engage Students More in Class? Consider Prohibiting Laptops.
“[E]xtremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And . . . moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!” So said Senator Barry Goldwater a half a century ago when he accepted the Republican nomination for president in 1964. He lost that election in a landslide, so extremism apparently wasn’t such a … Continue reading Is Political Moderation a Virtue These Days?
Tis one of the least fun seasons of the year for faculty: Time to grade stacks of exams and papers. While it is exciting to see signs that some of our wards have learned a lot from our instructional efforts, it is depressing to see evidence raising doubts that we inhabit the same galaxy as … Continue reading A Cool Course Assignment for Next Semester — and A Scholarship Opportunity
Troubled by the corrosive conflict stirred up by the election, I have written a series of posts about how we might move forward constructively, particularly on the personal (as distinct from the political) level. I think that political progress may depend, in part, on breaking down barriers of misunderstanding and fear between groups in our … Continue reading Building Common Ground Between Bubbles – Part 4
