As the organizer of our trip to Israel, I am delighted to try to bring our threads together. I am really so pleased and grateful to all of our colleagues for their insightful reflections. As I have said before, seeing Israel through others’ eyes was an honor to witness. The camaraderie as we all learned together … Continue reading DR Faculty Seminar in Israel – Wrap Up
This post describes five different approaches to using Stone Soup in ADR courses. It reflects the incredible flexibility of this project and the creativity of faculty in tailoring Stone Soup assignments to fit their goals and circumstances. Even when the assignments don’t work as planned, we can learn valuable lessons from these experiences. Andrea … Continue reading Stone Soup Assessment: A Tale of Five ADR Courses, by Andrea Schneider, Bob Ackerman, Becky Jacobs, Doug Yarn, and Derrick Howard
During our last day in Israel we visited the Israeli Supreme Court. The building was built in 1992, and, as with all national institutions in Israel, it is located in West Jerusalem. The building was intended to combine both old and new and indoors and outdoors. This means there is Jerusalem stone throughout the building, … Continue reading DR Faculty Seminar in Israel–The Israeli Supreme Court
I am extremely fortunate that Rafael Gely, the director of Missouri’s Center for the Study of Dispute Resolution, has been my partner in developing the Stone Soup Project. A year ago, when I first emailed him about it, the subject line was “a crazy idea?” Rafael’s immediate response was, “I love this idea! (Of … Continue reading Stone Soup Assessment: Rafael Gely’s Negotiation Course
Much legal education in the US is like telling someone how to ride a bike or having them read an instruction manual. It’s important, but most people wouldn’t get very far if that’s all you did. You could simply give them a bike and tell them to go, but that could lead to some … Continue reading Stone Soup Assessment: Bob Dauber’s Evidence Course
Maureen Weston (Pepperdine) provides this intriguing post from the Ofer military base in Israel. The conflict over the sacred land in the West Bank, which includes East Jerusalem, in Israel is deeply rooted and profoundly intense. This region has been under rule by the Turks in the Ottoman Empire (1517- 1917), Britain (1917-48), Jordan (1948-67), … Continue reading DR Faculty Seminar in Israel – Israel’s Military Courts: Adjudicating Alleged (Palestinian) Crime and Terror in the West Bank and Gaza
I have known Forrest (Woody) Mosten for quite a while. He co-authored several articles on collaborative law with me, putting him at risk of tarnishing his stellar reputation. We also co-authored an article, Family Lawyering: Past, Present, and Future. Much more significantly, Woody is known as the “father of unbundling” (as well as being a … Continue reading Mosten and Scully’s New Book on Unbundled Legal Services
This guest post comes from one of the blogs founders, Nancy Welsh (Texas A&M). Dr. Moshe Ma’oz is Professor Emeritus of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and was Director of the University’s Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace. His presentation explored the complexity of Israel’s … Continue reading DR Faculty Seminar in Israel – I Don’t Recognize My Country Any More
I’m looking at a new year’s card printed by my friend, Steve Harris, proprietor of Hands Press in Berkeley, that really expresses the values of our community. Let us hope that these values will be increasingly honored in the coming year. Happy New Year Wishing You a New Year Filled With Old-Fashioned Values: kindness modesty … Continue reading New Year’s Greeting
We’ve been back for a few days from Israel and today I woke up thinking about how the next generation of kids in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict could ever be reconciled. We heard repeatedly how this conflict is identity based and how children on each side no longer have any exposure to the “other.” Observers of … Continue reading DR Faculty Seminar in Israel–Identity & Education
