Volume 25, Issue 1.  TEACHING AND TECHNOLOGY:TEACHING ADR AND THE FUTURE OF DISPUTE SYSTEM DESIGN A pdf of the Table of Contents is available here: (25-1 TOC). Abstracts of the articles appear below: Pedagogy, Progress and Portfolios: Professor Deborah Merritt talks about the possibility of portfolios as a method to innovate law school education, especially … Continue reading Ohio State Journal of Dispute Resolution – Symposium Issue →

Conflict Resolution Quarterly is looking for more submissions.  (Guidelines here.) The journal tends to receive submissions in bunches (mostly during winter break and during summer break), so now would be a good time to send something in, if you’re thinking of trying to publish in CRQ.  They’ve got a good turnaround for a peer-reviewed journal … Continue reading Conflict Resolution Quarterly – Call for Submissions →

Sister Helen returned to the University of Oregon campus earlier this year, and you can access a free, YouTube version of her one-hour presentation on the death penalty, justice, reconciliation, forgiveness, and human rights here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOHAWOmdNG8 Michael Moffitt

… has now appeared in print [cluttering your mailboxes soon] and online [here]. My article is undoubtedly not the best researched.  (I’d personally give that prize to Amy Cohen’s article.) Mine may be the funniest, though.  That counts, right?  Please say “yes,” because I’m up for promotion this year, and that’s pretty much been my … Continue reading Fordham Law Review symposium issue on Owen Fiss →

The University of Oregon School of Law is pleased to host this year’s installment of the ADR Works-in-Progress Conference.  We’ll be gathering in Eugene, Oregon, October 15-16, 2010. Lots more information soon.  (No, Andrea, no details yet on precisely which local wines we’ll be serving.) For now, please mark the dates on your calendars and … Continue reading 2010 Works-In-Progress, October in Oregon →

Surely there are fewer better proxies for legitimacy than to be the target of The Onion. http://www.theonion.com/content/news/saints_colts_hoping_to_resolve —— Saints, Colts Hoping To Resolve Super Bowl Through Diplomacy JANUARY 29, 2010 | ONION SPORTS MIAMI—Team officials from the New Orleans Saints and Indianapolis Colts emerged from a tense, 12-hour negotiating session Thursday and told reporters that, … Continue reading Football, Diplomacy, and The Onion →

A document was recently submitted to the ABA House of Delegates in support of the Uniform Collaborative Law Act. The letter was signed by about fifty prominent law professors and deans nationwide (along with some riff-raff from Oregon). If I could figure out how to attach it to this post, or if I could find … Continue reading Educators for the UCLA (no, not that UCLA) →

I learned today that mediate.com is receiving one of the problem-solver awards this year, and I’m really pleased for them/it/however-one-grammatically-refers-to-a-business-named-after-a-website. Michael Moffitt

Sheila Heen recently wrote a book review of Bernie Mayer’s book, “Staying with Conflict.”  The review appears in the latest edition of Negotiation Journal (abstract here), and I quote its opening paragraphs below: I picked up Bernard Mayer’s new book last spring, and here is the bottom line: its impact on my practice was instant. … Continue reading What I Wish Sheila Heen Would Write About Me →