Carrie Menkel-Meadow (Georgetown, UCI) has published Introduction & Coda, Multi-Party Dispute Resolution,Democracy and Decision Making: Vol. Il of Complex Dispute Resolution. The first part is on SSRN and the rest is coming soon. The abstract: The Complex Dispute Resolution series collects essays on the development of foundational dispute resolution theory and practice and its application … Continue reading Menkel-Meadow on Multi-Party Dispute Resolution, Democracy, and Decision Making →

Jennifer Schulz (Manitoba) has published Settlement and Mediation in Canadian Legal Television in the Journal of Arbitration and Mediation. The abstract: This article is a close cultural legal analysis of The Associates, a Canadian legal television program. It describes what The Associates reveals about popular understandings of settlement and mediation in Canada. The show portrays … Continue reading Schulz on Settlement and Mediation in Canadian Legal Television →

I have always liked well-known SAIS Professor Bill Zartman’s theory of mutually hurting stalemate as an explanation of when a dispute become ripe for resolution.  Bill has usually applied this theory to international disputes but, on Monday night, while watching the Packers win, I was able to see this concept applied to a different kind of … Continue reading Football’s Ripe Moment (aka The Packers Actually Won) →

Just a reminder to send me your recent publications — we are happy to post! Along those lines, available now on SSRN is my essay, “The Lawyer with the ADR Tattoo,” forthcoming in the Winter 2013 issue of the Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution. Your feedback, thoughts, criticism, etc. welcome. The abstract: Should you hide … Continue reading Reynolds on the ADR Tattoo →

As Art graciously blogged about last year, I gave a presentation called Labels Suck at Wash U.’s symposium on New Directions in Negotiation.  It was a fun opportunity to let loose on what I have long believed is a hindrance to student learning–that we focus on determining overarching styles too much at the expense of focusing … Continue reading Negotiation Styles, Labels & Skills (Labels Suck Redux) →

I am pleased to circulate the official announcement and invitation of the symposium taking place at Quinnipiac Law School on Oct. 19 (in which I am participating): The Eighth John A. Speziale ADR Symposium “ADR in Hard Times:  Can Alternative Dispute Resolution Maintain Access to Justice When Resources Are Limited?”  Quinnipiac University School of Law, Hamden, CT … Continue reading ADR Symposium at Quinnipiac →

The third edition of ADR in the Workplace casebook is just about to go to the publisher.  Rick Bales, one of the book’s co-authors, is making the final edits to his chapters and would like to make a last call for articles to cite in the book.  If you have an article on any form … Continue reading Are there any employment ADR articles out there? →

For those of you who have not been reading novelist Lee Child’s Jack Reacher series, Jack Reacher is an ex-Army MP who drifts around the country trying to live anonymously and alone but instead inevitably–once per novel, in fact–getting involved in some local power struggle that requires him to take matters into his own hands … Continue reading ADR Students and Jack Reacher →

The article about Roger’s death in The Economist appears online here. The memorial service for Roger will take place on Saturday, October 27th, at 11am at Harvard’s Memorial Church in Harvard Yard in Cambridge.  A reception will follow at Loeb House. MM

One of the recurring questions in cross cultural negotiation  is whether there are certain approaches that transcend cultures and can be used  universally.  The research on  reciprocity, for example, indicates that it is universally understood and  used.  Apology is another one.  The rituals surrounding apology may differ,  but it seems we all understand its importance … Continue reading The Universal Apology →