The 2014 Schwartz Lecture on Dispute Resolution will be given by The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law’s own Nancy Hardin Rogers. She will be presenting on her current project looking at the role of institutions and dispute resolution providers in reducing polarization in public conflicts. Public institutions fund interventions by dispute resolution practitioners … Continue reading Professor Nancy H. Rogers to Give 2014 Schwartz Lecture at Moritz College of Law on March 25 →

Every year the USNews rankings come out and we love them or hate them depending on whether they favor us or not.  And at least with the USNews specialty rankings, we know they are peer reviewed, so they are more telling than the overall law school rankings. So – without any further ado, here are … Continue reading USNews Dispute Resolution Rankings →

John Lande (Missouri) has posted “A Framework for Advancing Negotiation Theory: Implications from a Study of How Lawyers Reach Agreement in Pretrial Litigation” on SSRN. The abstract: The prevailing negotiation theory tries to fit lots of square pegs into just two round holes – adversarial or cooperative bargaining. In the real world, negotiation comes in … Continue reading Lande on Advancing Negotiation Theory →

The NYT reports today on “the Matthew process,” a form of Biblical dispute resolution based on a passage from the Gospel of Matthew in which Jesus says that disputants should attempt to resolve their dispute privately, and if that doesn’t work to bring “one or two others” into the process. The particular dispute covered in … Continue reading Non-binding Christian mediation →

Appeared on 250words.com last week.  Available here.  Mostly familiar names.  Some less so.  Wouldn’t be my list, but then, that’s what makes it interesting… MM

I’ll be presenting my article Bargaining with Consequences: Leverage and Coercion in Negotiation tomorrow (Friday, February 27, 2014) at the Quinnipiac-Yale Dispute Resolution Workshop at Quinnipiac University School of Law. Here’s the abstract to the article, which will be published later this spring in the Harvard Negotiation Law Review: Leverage has been called “negotiation’s prime mover,” … Continue reading Bargaining with Consequences →

Profs. Doug Frenkel’s (UPenn) and Jim Stark’s (UConn) recent article Changing Minds: The Work of Mediators and Empirical Studies of Persuasion, 28 Ohio State J. Dispute Resol. 263-352 (2013), has been selected as the outstanding scholarly article of 2013 by the International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution (CPR).  CPR, an organization of executives and counsel from the … Continue reading Profs. Frenkel and Stark Win CPR Outstanding Scholarly Article Award →

I am very pleased to share that my colleague and co-author Nancy Hardin Rogers was honored with the prestigious James F. Henry Award from the International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution (CPR). As many of you know, the institute is an independent nonprofit organization comprised of global corporations, law firms, scholars, and public institutions … Continue reading Moritz College of Law Professor Nancy H. Rogers wins CPR’s James F. Henry Award for Distinguished Contribution to Dispute Resolution →

  I spent two days at the end of last week attending a conference at the Regent University School of Law on Promoting the Rule of Law in East Africa.  The conference was well organized and included an impressive list of thoughtful and thought provoking speakers (see here ).  The conference included a number of … Continue reading When children are being sacrificed, why is love a crime? →

I have a Dropbox account and use it to store a lot of my cloud-based documents. Dropbox emailed its users late last week, announcing changes to its Terms of Service, including the addition of an arbitration clause.  Notably, the clause included submission of disputes to the AAA for arbitration, a right to opt out within 30 … Continue reading Dropbox adds Arbitration Clause to its Terms of Service →