I wanted to share another favorite end-of-semester teaching tool as we are winding down the semester. Last year I wrote about negotiation recipes for success (post here) and shared examples of a negotiation cookbook from other teachers. So I wanted to share some of my favorite examples from students as examples of how well this works … Continue reading End of Semester Teaching Tools
The indefatigable Alyson Carrel (Northwestern) reflects on Amy Poehler’s new book Yes, Please, which, like all roads, leads to dispute resolution. ————————————————————- The ABA-Dispute Resolution Section just opened registration for the 17th Annual Spring Conference in Seattle, April 2015. One of the sessions that has been popular over the last couple years is called “What … Continue reading Carrel: Yes, Please – Can Improv Improve Responses to Ethical Dilemmas?
We have started the last week of classes in ADR this week and usually, at this time in the semester, I turn to the overarching subject of how to counsel clients when choosing among different dispute resolution processes. I divide the class into small groups and ask them to pick a situation of mass harm–Katrina, … Continue reading Talking about Ferguson
Transnational Dispute Management and ARBITRALWOMEN are calling for papers for an upcoming special issue on “Dealing with Diversity in International Arbitration.” Details on the call for papers here.
A few years ago a provocative paper looking at the legal implications of the “F” word received lots of attention and notoriety. Now another paper is making the rounds, “Get Me Off Your F-ing Mailing List,” a paper accepted for publication in The International Journal of Advanced Computer Technology. In 2005 a couple of computer … Continue reading My New Favorite Academic Article
From Bob Bordone and Rachel Viscomi (Harvard): November 25, 2014 This fall semester this year a notable one for both of us, for different reasons and motivated by different circumstances. Bob is preparing to take his first sabbatical after sixteen years of continuous teaching in both semesters; by contrast, Rachel embarked upon teaching her first … Continue reading Giving Thanks to (Facilitation) Students
In 1998, commenting on the hot controversy about the “Rand Report’s” finding that certain mediation programs did not save time or money (measured in terms of lawyers’ work hours), Professor Craig McEwen argued that it was the wrong question to ask whether “mediation works.” Critics of the Report had argued that its methodology led to … Continue reading Some Good Questions
From FOI Lela Love (Cardozo) – dispatches from the Melnick Symposium at Cardozo – Is Mediation a Sleeping Beauty? On November 2, 2014, at the Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution fall symposium, speaker after speaker asked “Is Mediation a Sleeping Beauty?” It was a taking stock event with luminaries from the field seeing this as a … Continue reading Love: Is Mediation A Sleeping Beauty?
Under the heading of hard bargaining tactics gone bad (and bad lawyer advice), we can now add this story. When a group of eight faculty members at the General Theological Seminary in Manhattan decided to stop working in order to protest their newly hired dean and president, Rev. Kurt H. Dunkle, all purgatory broke loose. Under … Continue reading Peace Be With You…And With You?
Peter B. “Bo” Rutledge has been named Dean at the University of Georgia School of Law. Press release here. Congrats Bo !! By my count, here are the ADR Deans off the top of my head: Brown (Quinnipiac), Guthrie (Vandy), Kloppenberg (Santa Clara), and our very own Moffit (Oregon). Now we add Paul (Montana) and … Continue reading Another new ADR Dean – Bo Rutledge
