Mediating the Classics – Non Sequitur
The comic strip Non Sequitur has had several good mediation related cartoons, and this one from last week continues that tradition. Enjoy.
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Sports Identity (and Why I Have to Take Down my Steelers Banner)
Two interesting things happened this weekend that led me to think a bit about sports, the need for identity, and conflict. Part One: As we are on our way this weekend to a baseball game between the Nationals and Padres (neither of which is a particularly important team to my Brewers-Mets-Pirates family), my three … Continue reading Sports Identity (and Why I Have to Take Down my Steelers Banner)
Shut Up, I’m Talking!
is the title of a great book by Gregory Levey that I read this summer about his surprising journey from law school to speechwriter for the Prime Minister of Israel. Levey is a Canadian who, after surviving his first year of law school at an unnamed New York law school decided that he needed a break … Continue reading Shut Up, I’m Talking!
What Law Firms Say and What They Actually Mean…
Now that classes have started and the interview season is upon us, it’s always interesting to examine what law firms will do to be attractive to law students. As a creative method to demonstrate to law students that they truly are different, Halleland Lewis in Minneapolis developed an interactive website to demonstrate the questions and … Continue reading What Law Firms Say and What They Actually Mean…
Negotiating for Law School Classes
Apparently, law students at NYU were negotiating this fall–using Starbucks, money, and cookies–to get into certain law school classes. Clearly, this is a fantasy for law professors “My class is so popular that one student baked 3 dozen brownies to get in!” but a nightmare for students. As the New York Post wrote, NYU operated without a waitlist … Continue reading Negotiating for Law School Classes
Colbert on Belgium & Nationalism
So I am linking to this clip from last night because it is hilarious–seriously crying funny. The pedagogical link would be that nationalism can show itself in many ways and, clearly for Colbert, the imminent purchase of Budweiser by a Belgian company was too much to take. On a more serious note, I wonder if … Continue reading Colbert on Belgium & Nationalism
Lawyer Jokes & Mediation Confidentiality
So, in the middle of grading this week, I’ve been interviewing research assistants for the summer. Each candidate had to come to the interview with a negotiation story and a lawyer joke (mostly for the purposes of cheering me up during grading!) The following joke is the winner and also a great argument for why … Continue reading Lawyer Jokes & Mediation Confidentiality
Saturday Night Live, Gender Negotiations, and the New “Black”
This week, in what can only be described as exquisite and rare good luck, we discussed gender differences in negotiation in the same week that Tina Fey made a guest appearance on Saturday Night Live. First, for some background, students in my workshop had the Casino case to negotiate out of class in which a … Continue reading Saturday Night Live, Gender Negotiations, and the New “Black”
It’s Valentine’s Day–What are You Negotiating?
There are a batch of writings today in the papers and the blogosphere about how to maintain happy relationships and I thought it would be fun to connect to a few. First, there was a great post today by Dayana Yochim in The Motley Fool entitled How to Win Your Next Money Fight. Romantic poet William … Continue reading It’s Valentine’s Day–What are You Negotiating?
The Writer’s Guild Strike and American Gladiators
There are many unforseen consequences of the writer’s strike, not the least of which is that my law students are watching American Gladiators. (Maybe they would do this anyway but I am clinging to the hope that, faced with choices, they would not.) When is the writer’s strike going to end? Is this strike, like the … Continue reading The Writer’s Guild Strike and American Gladiators
