Below is a listing of the presenters at the Works-In-Progress Conference later this week, here at Oregon. Stay tuned for more! MM — Cynthia Alkon, Texas Wesleyan: Rearranging Deck Chairs on the Titanic: Rule of law development assistance to countries in conflict Hiro Aragaki, Fordham Business School: Arbitration’s Suspect Status Rich Birke, Willamette: A Neuroscientific … Continue reading ADR Works-In-Progress Lineup
Many (aside: why isn’t it all?) of us who teach Negotiation spend at least some time on Rule 8.4 (dishonesty, fraud, deceit, misrepresentation) and its relationship to Rule 4.1 (fraud). The New York City Bar’s committee on ethics just issued an opinion in which it declared that an attorney may attempt to “friend” an unrepresented … Continue reading What? Rule 8.4 means it?!
Lela Love and Gina Brown just sent around an announcement about a new ABA Section award. Contents below. MM ————— I am writing to urge you to submit a nomination for what we hope becomes an important award of the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution : The ABA Section of Dispute Resolution Award for Outstanding … Continue reading ABA DR Section: Award for Scholarly Work
Wallace Warfield died about a week ago, and the world of conflict resolution is now far less rich. Wallace taught at ICAR at George Mason, and he did stints with SPIDR, with ACUS, with Community Relations Service at DOJ, with Eastern Mennonite University, and with street gang worked in NYC. He worked in conflict zones … Continue reading Wallace Warfield 1938-2010
The New York Times just ran an article (full text below) describing the more careful examination some judges are providing to possible settlements related to financial institutions’ misdeeds. The role of judicial review of settlements is not new, as anyone familiar with Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23 knows. The public scrutiny of that judicial … Continue reading Assessing Settlements – Judicial Deference, the Feds, & the Banks
Until this evening, I had no familiarity with the Bell Labs study, examining predictors of high levels of performance in the workplace. Their study suggested that it wasn’t grades, or other kinds of academic success, and it wasn’t even IQ or other typical academic-success predictors. Instead, after some years of study, they named at least … Continue reading High-Performance in the Workplace
Robert Axelrod, surely familiar to most of us who teach dispute resolution, co-authored an Op-Ed in the New York Times shortly after the Supreme Court’s decision in Holder v Humanitarian Law Project. (Available here, and reproduced below.) Somehow, I missed this article when it first came out. Tip of the hat to Jen Reynolds for … Continue reading Axelrod on the Humanitarian Law Project Opinion
Gina Brown and Jean Sternlight have announced the winner of the 2010 Boskey Essay contest: Flora Go, a student at Harvard Law School, for her essay, “Mediation as Practiced in Criminal Law: The Present, the Pitfalls, and the Potential.” Formal announcement appears here. And the essay itself is available here. MM
Earlier this summer, I attended a talk by David Brooks at the Chautauqua Institution in New York. (Quick aside: The Chautauqua Institution is as close to heaven as any place I have ever found. How’s that for an endorsement?) During his talk, David Brooks told the audience that there are, apparently, more Americans who own … Continue reading Ferrets, Fox News, and Framing
I learned earlier today that Grande Lum has accepted a position in the Small Business Administration, directing the Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUB Zone) program. A brief article appears here. The HUB Zone program has faced a considerable scrutiny in recent years for some of its practices, and I think it’s safe to say that … Continue reading Grande Lum (Hastings) to the Obama Administration
