Last week in honor of ABA Mediation Week, the DR Society here hosted former Senator Russell Feingold for a talk on Civility in Public Discourse.  We had a wonderful off-the-record hour (so I can’t tell you all the good stories!–here is me cracking up at one) but what I can say is heartening in terms … Continue reading Senator Feingold on Civility →

The New York Times last week posted this article about how costumes reveal much about the lawyers wearing them.  (See article & pictures here)  Apparently, a lawyers for a foreclosure law firm in upstate New York thought it would be hilarious and appropriate to dress up as the homeless or poor for their annual Halloween party.  … Continue reading Halloween Evils? →

In about a week, Russ Feingold will be visiting the University of Oregon.  Most in the ADR community know Feingold best for his work promoting the Arbitration Fairness Act in the Senate for many years.  This is not a “yay for us” posting.  This is an “I need help” posting. As part of Senator Feingold’s … Continue reading What Would You Ask Russ Feingold ? (an actual request for help) →

While in the midst of preparing for my upcoming negotiation class on culture, gender and race, I ran across an interesting (and discouraging) empirical study looking at the impact of race on eBay auctions that was recently posted on SSRN. The article is “Race Effects on Ebay” by Ian Ayres, Mahzarin Banaji, and Christine Jolls. … Continue reading “Race Effects on Ebay” →

The Fordham Law Dispute Resolution Society is holding its Sixth Annual Alternative Dispute Resolution Symposium entitled: Judicial Review of ADR Processes: What Makes Sense? It will be on November 4, 2011 at Fordham Law School in New York. The keynote speaker will be Professor Nancy Welsh from Pennsylvania State University, Dickinson School of Law. The … Continue reading Fordham ADR Symposium →

This year’s AALS ADR Section Works-in-Progress Conference will be taking place two weeks from today at Creighton Law School.  The folks at the Werner Institute have put together a wonderful program that promises to please.  The conference web site is here, the abstracts of the papers to be presented are here (btw – that’s a great … Continue reading 5th Annual AALS ADR Section WIP Conference, Nov. 4th and 5th →

So I have been working on a book chapter stemming from the Beijing conference on Rethinking Negotiation last May concerning differences in negotiation behavior that we observed between Chinese law students and U.S. law students.  I’m not ready to post on the chapter yet (!), but I did recently come across two different quotes and … Continue reading Lincoln v. Confucius: Shedding Light on Cross-Cultural Ethics? →

Last week, we had wonderful talk entitled Blowing the Whistle on Whistleblowing Laws.  Attorney Charles L. (Chuck) Howard is one of the few attorneys in the U.S. with extensive expertise in the legal issues of ombudsmen. Howard has a national practice in representing organizational ombudsmen at universities, multinational corporations, and research institutions.  His new book, entitled The Organizational … Continue reading Ombuds Perspective on Whistleblowing Laws →