I posted two articles on SSRN this past week–an oldie but goodie (as John has phrased them) and a new book chapter with co-bloggers Jill Gross and John Lande. The oldie is an article I wrote in 2001 called Baseball Diplomacy examining how Major League Baseball was involved with Cuba (trying to play games there, … Continue reading Building Best Practices…and Some Baseball too
As Art reported, William Mitchell and Hamline Law Schools plan to merge. Best wishes to all our friends at both schools. Both have wonderful DR colleagues and have been great innovators in legal education. Hopefully, people there will like the new arrangements. Of course, even positive change can be stressful and some people may not … Continue reading Was the Mitchell-Hamline Negotiation a “Win-Win”?
Today’s big law school news is the merger of Hamline and William Mitchell Law Schools into the Mitchell/Hamline School of Law to be located on Mitchell’s St. Paul campus. This is of particular interest to us here because of Hamline’s strong ADR program with wonderful faculty who are good friends. In the true win-win nature … Continue reading Hamline and William Mitchell Law Schools to Merge
From our friends at Northwestern comes the following announcement about the newly created Bauer Fellowship in the Center for Negotiation and Mediation. Announcement below. —————– Northwestern University School of Law invites applications for the Bauer Fellow, a two-year, renewable, clinical fellowship. The fellowship will commence on August 1, 2015 and is expected to end July … Continue reading Bauer Fellowship at Northwestern Law
I subscribe to the Best Practices for Legal Education blog, which has a lot of good posts. Here’s one by Michele Pistone (Villanova) suggesting that teachers carefully use words in defining their teaching and learning goals.
From my colleague, Professor Ellen Deason: Last week, UNCITRAL (United Nations Commission on International Trade Law) Working Group II (Arbitration and Conciliation) met in New York at the United Nations. I was privileged to attend as an observer sponsored by the Private International Law Interest Group of the American Society of International Law. Thank you … Continue reading Consideration of New UNCITRAL Convention Moves Forward
I used to give my Negotiation students at Harvard a set of fieldwork experiments, assignments to go try out this or that concept in real life and report back. In my mind, I had pedagogically sound reasons for doing so. And for some years, it went either fine or great. And then one year, it went disastrously, … Continue reading Students Experimenting in the Field, or “The Pedagogical Value of a Can of Beans” (From David White)
This comes from an email from Andrew Lee, negotiation professor extraordinaire in Beijing. I asked and received permission to post–I think it’s a great example of cross-cultural similarities and differences–let alone parenting challenges! With Wondermum Vivian taking daughter Meimei on a girl’s day, I was tasked with bringing little infant son Tintin to the toy store. … Continue reading Andrew’s Excellent Adventure in Toy Shopping
If you are interested in an career in dispute resolution and have an interest in academia, I encourage you to apply to become Ohio State University, Moritz College of Law’s next Langdon Fellow. You can apply at jobsatosu.edu. The deadline for applications is March 1, 2015. The position description follows. Please let me know if … Continue reading Langdon Fellow Position at Ohio State University, Moritz College of Law
A really, really interesting blog post by Brian Ganson on the HNMCP blog site. I have known Brian since my earliest days in mediation, and he has reliably challenged many of my assumptions about just what it is we do and how we ought to do it. An excerpt (but really you should read the … Continue reading Brian Ganson on Mediation and Advocacy
