A highlight of our trip was meeting with Justice Aharon Barak. Barak has been hailed as the father of Israeli constitituional law and Justice Elana Kagan called Justice Barak her “judicial hero.” His remarks covered a widespread range of topics from the development of Israeli law to several difference famous Israeli Supreme Court cases to … Continue reading Israel Reflections 2013–A Meeting with a Judicial Giant
At the ABA Dispute Resolution Section meetings in Chicago the national rounds of the Representation in Mediation Competition were held. As always, we were very impressed with the competitors, especially the team from Faulkner University’s Thomas Jones Goode School of Law who won the championship. Congrats Faulkner and thanks to all of you who acted … Continue reading Congratulations to Faulkner University – National Champs !!
As we wrote about the last Israel trip, noting the complications and contradictions of the country are crucial to also understanding it. On the 65th anniversary of Israeli independence, this blog post from student Kristina Minor discusses the importance and implications of Zionism: Israel is by far the most complicated place I have ever been. … Continue reading Israel Reflections 2013–It’s Still Complicated
At the ABA Section on Dispute Resolution Annual Meeting last week, Senator George Mitchell spoke about Northern Ireland and how important hope and patience is for a peace process. On the other hand, and contrary to much that we read about in negotiation, he did not argue that trust is needed. Several of our speakers in Israel spoke … Continue reading Israel Reflections 2013–is trust necessary?
James Stark and Douglas Frenkel have published Using Fear and Guilt to Persuade: What Might Empirical Research Tell Mediators? in the Winter 2013 Dispute Resolution Magazine, pages 26-29. The article’s opening scenario describes the predicament of a mediator who is working with a plaintiff who is getting “less reasonable as the mediation progresses” and appears … Continue reading Stark and Frankel on Using Fear and Guilt to Persuade
On Monday evening my ASU colleague Joe Feller was struck by a car and killed while jogging. Joe, a natural resources scholar who engaged in impact environmental litigation, was an ADR skeptic (at best) who thought collaborative processes were being used to subvert the protections offered by the country’s natural resource laws. He expressed his views … Continue reading Joe Feller – Rest in Peace
Hi all—lovely to see so many of you last week at the ABA Section on Dispute Resolution Conference! Just to follow up from my mini-presentation in the morning of the LEC, I wanted to send around live links to the two teaching materials I shared. The first is the article on teaching the TKI and … Continue reading DYNAD Exercise
From Glen Parker at Cardozo, below is an announcement about a writing competition in conflict resolution open to students in the Tri-State area or from that region: The ACR-GNY has organized a Student Writing Competition to coincide with its 2013 Annual Conference being held on June 20, 2013. The goal of the competition is to solicit scholarly … Continue reading New York Area Writing Competition
Tonight begins Holocaust Remembrance Day–Yom Hashoah–and so today’s post is from Brendan Byrne on visiting the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial–a regular stop for visitors to Israel including the President this past month. Yad Vashem is the official memorial to the victims and survivors of the Holocaust that took 6 million lives and left physical and emotional … Continue reading Israel Reflections 2013–Yad Vashem
Following closely on the heels of Quinnipiac’s very wise decision to name ADR Law Prof Jen Brown the next Dean of its law school, Ohio Northern University announced it appointed Richard Bales, currently at Northern Kentucky Chase College of Law, the next Dean of its Pettit College of Law. Congratulations to Rick on this accomplishment, … Continue reading Rick Bales named Dean at Ohio Northern’s Law School
