Tim Hedeen (Kennesaw State) has co-published (with Heather Pincock) “Where the Rubber Meets the Clouds: Anticipated Developments in Conflict and Conflict Resolution Theory” in the Ohio State Journal of Dispute Resolution. From the Introduction: The study of conflict transcends disciplinary boundaries and nearly defies categorization. Theories abound to explain the sources or conditions that give … Continue reading Hedeen on the Future of Conflict Theory
Kristen Blankley (Nebraska) recently published “The Ethics and Practice of Drafting Pre-Dispute Resolution Clauses” in the Creighton Law Review, available here. The abstract: The audience for the topic of dispute resolution usually consists of neutrals and litigation professionals. This Article, by contrast, is written for the transactional attorney. Transactional attorneys have an important role in … Continue reading Blankley on Pre-Dispute Resolution Clauses
As you may or may not know, the University of Houston School of Law sued the Houston College of Law, which changed its name from the South Texas School of Law over the summer, for trademark infringement. The Houston College of Law lost a TRO hearing on the matter, and has agreed to change it’s … Continue reading The Law School with No Name – for this week, at least
About ten years ago, Jayanth (Jay) Krishnan (Indiana-Bloomington) invited me to participate in a symposium of former students of Prof. Marc Galanter honoring his great scholarship. I was delighted to accept the invitation because I don’t think that many of our DR colleagues know much about his work and I wanted to introduce it to … Continue reading Case Study on International Dispute Resolution Intervention
Stacie Strong (Missouri) has several recently published articles and several forthcoming articles. Here is the list: Arbitration of Trust Disputes: Issues in National and International Law (Oxford University Press, 2016). The book itself is available here and the opening chapter is here. “The Reasons Behind Reasoned Arbitration Awards,” 34 Alternatives to the High Cost of … Continue reading Strong on Arbitration and Other Topics
Noam Ebner (Creighton) has recently published “Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Education in the Age of the MOOC” in the Negotiation Journal, available here. The abstract: Even as online learning is increasingly embraced by institutions of higher education, the past decade has seen the arrival of yet another new educational vehicle: massive online open courses (MOOCs). … Continue reading Ebner on Negotiation Education via MOOC
Following up the Tower of Babel Symposium this month, there will be a program at the ABA SDR conference next April entitled, “Making Negotiation Theory More Helpful for Practitioners.” We want to include a practitioner on the panel and we asked Wayne Brazil if he would join us. Wayne served as a magistrate judge in … Continue reading Tower of Babel Symposium Bonus – Conversation with Wayne Brazil
Carrie Menkel-Meadow (Irvine) has several recently published articles. Here is the list: “The Future of Mediation Worldwide: Legal and Cultural Variations in the Update of or Resistance to Mediation,” in Essays on Mediation (ed. Ian Macduff 2016). download “Ethics of Compromise,” in the Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance (2016). download “In … Continue reading Menkel-Meadow on Mediation, Transitional Justice, and Other Topics
Many of us spend a lot of time thinking about and teaching our students about the fine art of listening. So this morning when I found out about a law blog devoted to listening, Listen Like a Lawyer, I had to check it out. Jennifer Murphy Romig (Emory) curates the blog and describes it as … Continue reading Listen Like a Lawyer
Doug Frenkel (Pennsylvania) and Jim Stark (Connecticut) recently published “Improving Lawyers’ Judgment: Is Mediation Training De-Biasing?” in the Harvard Negotiation Law Review, available here. The abstract: When people are placed in a partisan role or otherwise have an objective they seek to accomplish, they are prone to pervasive cognitive and motivational biases. These judgmental distortions … Continue reading Frenkel and Stark on Mediation and Debiasing
