The international community, through a number of organizations, regularly observes elections in countries around the world. Election observation is one method of preventing election disputes from evolving into violent conflict, particularly in countries with less developed or less trusted judicial systems. The hope is that election observation by neutral outsiders will provide a peaceful forum … Continue reading Watching the Vote
The Harvard Negotiation & Mediation Clinical Program (HNMCP) at Harvard Law School is looking for a Clinical Instructor to begin a three-year term appointment on July 1, 2013. If you are interested in supervising clinical projects for HNMCP, as well as teaching on the Spring Negotiation Workshop teaching team, you can find a full job … Continue reading HNMCP seeking clinical instructor
From FOI Bryan Hanson (Creighton): October is here and Cyberweek 2012 is just a couple weeks away! Please make sure you save the dates of October 28th to November 2nd and join us online for what promises to be a wonderful week of exploration and discussion regarding online dispute resolution. Registration and information are both … Continue reading Cyberweek 2012 is almost here
This entire week we are celebrating ABA Mediation Week. Here is the ABA’s announcement of the event: Over the last few decades, the field of alternative dispute resolution has grown tremendously. The recognition that not all cases are well suited for the adversarial process and that there are multiple paths to justice is increasingly shared … Continue reading Happy Mediation Week!
From FOI Noam Ebner (Creighton): Assessing our Students, Assessing Ourselves, published this spring and unveiled at the American Bar Association’s Section on Dispute Resolution’ Spring Conference in Washington, D.C, is the third and most recent volume in the Rethinking Negotiation Teaching Project series. Edited by Noam Ebner (Creighton University), James Coben (Hamline University) and Christopher … Continue reading Ebner, Coben, and Honeyman on Assessing Students
The UN recently released its guidance for international mediators. Press release here. Formal document here. I can’t say that I’ve read it with great care. The first thing that jumped out at me was its treatment of the topic of impartiality. I would not have guessed the UN, in particular, to have been so insistent … Continue reading UN Guidance on Effective Mediation
David Larson (Hamline) and Chang Wang (Thomson Reuters) have placed Preparing To Negotiate in a Globally Diverse Environment: An Examination of Chinese and Jewish Perspectives on Truth and Lies. The abstract: What are a negotiator’s ethical and moral obligations during a negotiation? Should a negotiator be dedicated to achieving the greatest value possible for his … Continue reading Larson and Wang on Preparing To Negotiate in a Globally Diverse Environment
FOI Stacie Strong (Missouri) is serving as a Supreme Court Fellow this year in the Federal Judicial Center (FJC). She writes that applications for the fellowship are due November 30; more information here. It sounds like an incredible opportunity. Fellowships last one year and fellows work with one of four different agencies: the FJC; the … Continue reading Supreme Court Fellowship — applications due 11/30
Debra Berman and James Alfini have published Lawyer Colonization of Family Mediation: Consequences and Implications in the Marquette Law Review. From the introduction: The relationships among divorcing spouses, lawyers, and the courts have undergone significant changes over the past fifty years. The advent of no-fault divorce promoted experimentation with mechanisms that enhanced “private ordering” encouraged … Continue reading Berman and Alfini on Lawyer Colonization of Family Mediation
On the news and the blogs for the last few days has been a very impressive response to a nasty email in my home state of Wisconsin. (See Huff Post story here that has both the original segment from Tuesday and the Today Show segment from Wednesday. ) Many of us teaching negotiation talk about email communication, the … Continue reading Email Nastiness–and one very eloquent response
