From FOI Tracey Frisch: AAA announces the launch of Mediation Magazine: https://mediationmagazine.org/ The Mediation Magazine is a new web-based publication of the American Arbitration Association – International Centre for Dispute Resolution, focused on the rapidly developing mediation market. Published continuously throughout the year, this resource promotes mediation as a powerful and practical way to resolve disputes … Continue reading AAA Announces New Mediation Magazine →

On October 15, 2025, the ABA issued formal opinion 518, entitled, “A Lawyer’s Duties to Avoid Misleading Communications When Acting as a Third-Party Neutral Mediator” https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/administrative/professional_responsibility/ethics-opinions/aba-formal-opinion-518.pdf In this opinion, the the ABA states that in the role of mediator, lawyers cannot engage in deception about the parties’ bottom lines – or about anything else. The … Continue reading ABA Issues Formal Opinion – A Lawyer-Mediator Must Avoid Misleading Communications When Acting as a Neutral →

Delighted to share that this book is out with chapters from me on Madeleine Albright and from Carrie Menkel-Meadow on Kissinger as well as a host of other leaders and authors!  (Scroll to the end for the discount code to order!) As the editor Remi Smolinski describes it: After a year and a half of … Continue reading Negotiators Who Change the World: Timeless Lessons on Leadership and Negotiation just published!! →

I am delighted to announce the Third Issue of Volume 26! Read about the issue on the Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution blog, which can be accessed here: https://lnkd.in/eJbM5XmW.   Many thanks to the wonderful authors and our terrific students! Articles A Framework for Trauma-Informed Mediation: A Heart and Mind Approach to Conflict Resolution —Michael Saini, … Continue reading Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution — Issue 3, Volume 26 just out! →

On behalf of my co-editors Andrea Schneider and Sarah Cole, I am happy to announce that Discussions in Dispute Resolution: The Coming of Age (2000-2009) is available for purchase.  Note – use the code AUFLY30 to save 30% from the list price. Getting a book project to fruition is a labor of love, and there … Continue reading Discussions in Dispute Resolution: The Coming of Age (2000-2009) →

From friend of Indisputably, Grande Lum: The ABA Dispute Resolution Section Task Force today announces the launch of the Clearinghouse on Constructive and Civil Discourse. https://law.stanford.edu/clearinghouse-on-constructive-and-civil-discourse/ The legal profession and law schools are increasingly recognizing their responsibility to equip lawyers and law students with an understanding of the vital connection between discourse approach, learning, engagement, … Continue reading Clearinghouse on Constructive and Civil Discourse →