Kristen Blankley (Nebraska) recently published “The Ethics and Practice of Drafting Pre-Dispute Resolution Clauses” in the Creighton Law Review, available here. The abstract: The audience for the topic of dispute resolution usually consists of neutrals and litigation professionals. This Article, by contrast, is written for the transactional attorney. Transactional attorneys have an important role in … Continue reading Blankley on Pre-Dispute Resolution Clauses →

Stacie Strong (Missouri) has several recently published articles and several forthcoming articles. Here is the list: Arbitration of Trust Disputes: Issues in National and International Law (Oxford University Press, 2016). The book itself is available here and the opening chapter is here. “The Reasons Behind Reasoned Arbitration Awards,” 34 Alternatives to the High Cost of … Continue reading Strong on Arbitration and Other Topics →

Noam Ebner (Creighton) has recently published “Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Education in the Age of the MOOC” in the Negotiation Journal, available here. The abstract: Even as online learning is increasingly embraced by institutions of higher education, the past decade has seen the arrival of yet another new educational vehicle: massive online open courses (MOOCs). … Continue reading Ebner on Negotiation Education via MOOC →

Carrie Menkel-Meadow (Irvine) has several recently published articles. Here is the list: “The Future of Mediation Worldwide: Legal and Cultural Variations in the Update of or Resistance to Mediation,” in Essays on Mediation (ed. Ian Macduff 2016). download “Ethics of Compromise,” in the Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance (2016). download “In … Continue reading Menkel-Meadow on Mediation, Transitional Justice, and Other Topics →

Doug Frenkel (Pennsylvania) and Jim Stark (Connecticut) recently published “Improving Lawyers’ Judgment: Is Mediation Training De-Biasing?” in the Harvard Negotiation Law Review, available here. The abstract: When people are placed in a partisan role or otherwise have an objective they seek to accomplish, they are prone to pervasive cognitive and motivational biases. These judgmental distortions … Continue reading Frenkel and Stark on Mediation and Debiasing →

In this sad and sorry election (and weather) season, some good news.

In case you missed it, and continuing with our series of non-apology or otherwise problematic apologies, here is SNL’s take on Donald Trump’s recent efforts toward making an apology.

It is my pleasure to introduce Danny Fridberg, a visiting scholar in the University of Oregon Judaic Studies department. Danny is completing a PhD at the National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, the University of Otago, New Zealand. His research focuses on psycho-social transformative processes in situations of violent conflicts. We are lucky to … Continue reading Welcome Danny Fridberg →

The New York Times has an interesting article today on how to get people to evacuate when big storms are coming. For those of us who study negotiation and persuasion, it’s instructive to see how disaster professionals conduct these kinds of short-term negotiations with huge groups of people. Here are the first three pieces of … Continue reading Negotiating to Evacuate →

Regarding my earlier post, here is an update from FOI Kristen Blankley (Nebraska): The students at the University of Nebraska College of Law were interested in seeing additional programming in areas such as cultural competency, diversity, and access to justice. Responding to those ideas, the student-led initiative received support and coordination from the Law College’s … Continue reading Student-Facilitated Community Conversations, Continued →