I want to let you know about a short story, What Happened? A Mediation Story Featuring RPS Coach. I bet you would enjoy spending an hour to read it. What Happened? tells the story of a promising business relationship that gradually unravels into a serious commercial dispute. As the implementation of a software system goes … Continue reading A Short Story about Mediation, Professional Judgment, and AI
A bit of exciting news from Santa Clara Law: our conflict resolution program is becoming the Daley Center for Conflict Resolution, thanks to a $5 million gift from alumna Dorian Daley that will endow the Center. For those of us who have been building the program since its founding in 2017, this is an especially … Continue reading Exciting News from Santa Clara Law Dispute Resolution Program
The Center for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution at the University of California College of Law, San Francisco (formerly UC Hastings) has launched a new Survey on Commercial Mediation in the U.S. The Survey has the support of AAA/ICDR, CPR Institute and DRS, and JAMS. A link to the survey instrument can be found below. Commercial mediation now … Continue reading Please Participate in UC Law SF’s Survey on Commercial Mediation
I’d love your help. Mediate.com created a terrific new webpage for RPS Coach, with information about its core values, suggestions for getting the best results, descriptions of the topics it covers, and links to the publications incorporated into the tool. Take a look at the homepage. Now I’d like to add a Testimonials page. Many … Continue reading Have You Used RPS Coach? I’d Love Your Testimonials and Feedback – by Friday, June 26
I’m delighted to post the new call for applications for this terrific program! Apply now!! AALS SECTION ON ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION CALL FOR APPLICATIONS 2026-2027 NEW VOICES IN DISPUTE RESOLUTION PROGRAM The AALS Section on Alternative Dispute Resolution announces the call for applications for the 2026-2027 mentorship program entitled “New Voices in Dispute Resolution.” New … Continue reading New Voices in Dispute Resolution–Call for Applications!!
Many dispute resolution practitioners would answer that question with a simple “no.” Until recently, I would have answered the question the same way. When I thought about online dispute resolution (ODR), I thought about specialized online platforms like eBay. ODR seemed like a distinct corner of the dispute resolution field that was completely disconnected from … Continue reading Do You Know That You Use ODR?
Just over 40 years ago, Owen Fiss wrote his famous article Against Settlement, arguing that settlement was bad public policy. While the article has long served as a foil for dispute resolution academics, it is a good read — especially if you disagree with it, as do some of the commenters in the first volume … Continue reading Fiss Was Right – At Least About This One
If you want to learn how you can benefit from RPS Coach, check out the new Mediate.com webpage. RPS Coach is a free AI tool offered as a public service. It is designed to help mediators, attorneys, parties, educators, students, trainees, and ADR program administrators prepare for and participate in negotiation and mediation. It reflects … Continue reading Mediate.com Hosts RPS Coach
Many people fear that artificial intelligence (AI) will undermine human skills, making them less capable of exercising independent judgment. They worry that machines take control and humans lose control. Sometimes that’s exactly what happens. This problem, in my view, is not primarily that AI is too powerful. The problem is that some people don’t recognize … Continue reading Are You Afraid of Becoming a Zombie If You Use AI?
You’re hallucinating if you think AI won’t hallucinate. Reports of fake citations, fabricated quotations, manipulated images, and AI-generated misinformation now appear regularly. Lawyers using generative AI have submitted fictitious cases in court filings and have been sanctioned. These developments understandably alarm legal and dispute resolution professionals. They should. My article, The Surprising Value of AI … Continue reading Could AI Hallucinations Improve Professional Thinking?
