Justice Aharon Barak joined the Supreme Court of Israel in 1978, and became its President in 1995, serving until 2006. He is widely considered one of the greatest Israeli jurists. (See his full bio here.) This morning the Academic Partners for Peace DR Law Faculty had the honor of spending more than an hour listening … Continue reading DR Law Faculty Seminar in Israel – Justice Aharon Barak
Ms. Tzipi Livini has served in 8 separate cabinet positions including Minister of Justice and former Minister of Foreign Affairs (01-09). She is a Member of the Knesset and is the current leader of the Zionist Union party. She is one of, if not the, leading proponents of the 2 state solution in Israeli politics … Continue reading DR Faculty Seminar in Israel – Tzipi Livini, Member of Knessset
Our one and only Andrea Schneider is well known for organizing trips to various places for her students, Israel and Cuba to name a few, and she regularly blogs about those trips. This time she’s organized a trip to Israel for US Dispute Resolution Scholars both to give us the adventure learning treatment and to … Continue reading Academic Partners for Peace, Dispute Resolution Law Faculty Seminar in Israel
In June, Rafael Gely and I, the co-directors of the Stone Soup Project, decided to shift our approach from our original plan of a centralized database to a decentralized set of experimental efforts to produce knowledge about actual practice – aka letting a thousand chefs cook. I recently talked with many of the faculty who … Continue reading Stone Soup: A Thousand Great Chefs
Kristen Roupenian’s new short story, “Cat Person,” is a fascinating story of relationship that manages to capture (among other things) the complexities of consent. Why we agree to what we agree to is such a fraught and often overdetermined question — it is not as simple as arming ourselves with the facts and making a … Continue reading Cat Person and Consent
Recently, Susan Yates and I conducted mediation trainings on behalf of the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire, the New Hampshire Judicial Branch Office of Mediation and Arbitration, and the University of New Hampshire, School of Law. As part of the trainings, we collected survey data and focus-group-like comments from … Continue reading Takeaways From New Hampshire Mediation Training
Recently, Susan Yates and I conducted mediation trainings on behalf of the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire, the New Hampshire Judicial Branch Office of Mediation and Arbitration, and the University of New Hampshire, School of Law. As part of the trainings, we collected survey data and focus-group-like comments from … Continue reading Stone Soup: Model for Gathering Data at Continuing Education Programs
Today on NPR’s Morning Edition StoryCore interview, the father of a victim of a school shooting (Greg Gibson) and the shooter who killed his son (Wayne Lo) talked about the event and their lives 25 years after the incident. Gibson wrote a book about the event and he talked to everyone – except for Lo. … Continue reading Restorative Justice and Apologies
The Stone Soup Project is a collaborative effort to develop and share knowledge, not only about actual practice of dispute resolution and law, but also about pedagogical techniques to maximize the benefit from Stone Soup assignments and activities. Faculty using Stone Soup are assessing how well it worked in their courses and providing advice … Continue reading Stone Soup Course Assessments
Peter Phillips, the director of New York Law School’s ADR Skills Program, used Stone Soup in his negotiation course this semester. In his assessment, he wrote that the interview assignment was an excellent fit for his course, which helped students see in practice the theory they learned in class. He told me that students … Continue reading Stone Soup Assessment: Peter Phillips’s Negotiation Course
