From Deb Eisenberg: The Maryland Law Center for Dispute Resolution is hiring a staff attorney-mediator. This is a three-year staff position (not faculty track). Additional information can be found at the link below. https://umb.taleo.net/careersection/jobdetail.ftl?job=200000GC&lang=en  

I won’t pretend to keep up with everything being written in the ADRsphere if you will promise the same. Having confessed that, and consistent with the regret implied in that confession, I thought I would offer an easy-to-skim Table of Contents view of the last two issues of Negotiation Journal – – a publication I commend … Continue reading Negotiation Journal : most recent two issues →

The Washington Post recent published an obituary for Francis McGovern, a pioneer in our field. His colleagues at Duke have posted  memories as well. I worked with Francis only briefly. He was among the too-rare ranks of scholar-practitioners in our field. No account of the landscape of mass tort settlement in the United States can properly … Continue reading Francis McGovern Obituary →

That’s essentially the provocative, and ultimately persuasive, message from Andrea Schneider’s latest article: What’s Sex Got to Do With it: Questioning Research on Gender & Negotiation Nevada Law Journal, Vol. 19, No. 3, 2019 available at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3433926 Central to her thesis is the (in my view correct) observation that most research on negotiation and gender … Continue reading Gender & Negotiation: What if the question(s) were wrong? →

`The HNMCP podcast “Thanks for Listening” has come out with a new episode, this one focused on community dialogue in the wake of  the police shooting of Philando Castile. I listened to it yesterday, and it is thought-provoking. Description from HNMCP: The Harvard Negotiation & Mediation Clinical Program has just posted Episode 3 in their … Continue reading “Thanks for Listening” podcast – episode 3 →

From today’s online WSJ, an article with the tagline “Catholic Church Offers to Settle Abuse Claims – With a Catch: A potential flood of lawsuits has spurred the Catholic Church to offer mediation, only if accusers agree not to sue.” About halfway through  the article, the paper describes a “mediation” process under which “Alleged victims tell … Continue reading WSJ on Catholic Church Abuse Mediation in Pennsylvania →

Harvard Negotiation & Mediation Clinical Program is now accepting applications for its next Clinical Fellow   The Clinical Fellow (CF) position reports to the Director of Harvard Negotiation & Mediation Clinical Program. The CF will work closely with HNMCP staff to support expansion of the school’s innovative program in negotiation, mediation, facilitation, and dispute systems … Continue reading Job Posting: Harvard Negotiation & Mediation Clinical Fellow →

From FOIs Jean Sternlight and Lydia Nussbaum of UNLV: The first West Coast Dispute Resolution Conversation was held in Las Vegas on December 7 & 8, 2018 at UNLV’s Boyd School of Law and the Saltman Center for Conflict Resolution. The inspiration for the Conversation grew out of the 2018 ABA Dispute Resolution Section Annual Conference … Continue reading West coast dispute resolution conversation: Dec. 7 & 8, 2018 →

I just got word of (and am excited to see) a new book called “Resolving Land and Energy Conflicts.” I have the very highest regard for the work Patrick Field has been doing in this field for decades, and I’m eager to see what he and his colleagues have pulled together, in terms of resources. … Continue reading Energy Siting Disputes – New Book →

The memorial service for Frank Sander will take place at Harvard’s Memorial Church on October 20 at 2pm, with a reception to follow at the Harvard Faculty Club.  I hope that you will come, if you are able. Meanwhile, Frank’s children have put together an absolutely breathtaking website (franksander.com) with photos and stories from Frank’s … Continue reading Frank Sander memorial: October 20 →