The Center for the Study of Dispute Resolution at the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law won the International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution (CPR) 2009 “Problem Solving in Law School Award.”  To read more about the award see http://law.missouri.edu/news/#csdr-011410.  In addition, University of Missouri-Columbia Professor S.I. Strong is the co-recipient of the CPR’s … Continue reading Congrats to Mizzou! →

I learned today that mediate.com is receiving one of the problem-solver awards this year, and I’m really pleased for them/it/however-one-grammatically-refers-to-a-business-named-after-a-website. Michael Moffitt

Yes…and they should!  Coming back from the WIP conference this past November at Harvard, one of the most interesting conversations was a late night one between several professors—men & women—about teaching gender in a negotiation class.  Now that the new semester is starting up, I wanted to bring this topic up again.  As others have … Continue reading Can Guys Teach Gender? →

Sheila Heen recently wrote a book review of Bernie Mayer’s book, “Staying with Conflict.”  The review appears in the latest edition of Negotiation Journal (abstract here), and I quote its opening paragraphs below: I picked up Bernard Mayer’s new book last spring, and here is the bottom line: its impact on my practice was instant. … Continue reading What I Wish Sheila Heen Would Write About Me →

It was great seeing many of you at the AALS meetings in blistering cold New Orleans over the weekend.  Yup, it was damn cold, and my tolerance for cold weather has dramatically dipped since my move to warm and sunny Arizona.  I’ll be blogging later about the paneled discussion on negotiation ethics I participated in (thanks … Continue reading AALS redux →

The Chronicle of Higher Education has run a couple stories recently (here) about professors who have incorporated their scholarly disciplines into their tattoos in one way or another. (A chemist named Esther getting the chemical formula for an ester linkage.  An anthropologist with an early hominid skull.  A linguist with a symbol from the international … Continue reading Tattoos and Dispute Resolution →

Jean Sternlight has sent out an announcement about this year’s Boskey Writing Competition, in search of student entrants and faculty readers. Its content is available at: http://www.abanet.org/dispute/essaycomp.html Michael Moffitt

If you are heading to the AALS conference in New Orleans later this week, I want to bring your attention to the ADR Section’s panel on negotiation ethics on Friday afternoon from 4:00 to 5:45pm.  The program is entitled, Overcoming the Difficulties of Teaching Negotiation Ethics, and a short description is below.  This is going to be … Continue reading An AALS Panel You Won’t Want to Miss →

When do mediation and boxing go together?  Answer: in the strange case of scheduling a championship boxing match between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao.  Yes, these two fighters have scheduled a mediation to help schedule a boxing match.   Just to give a little bit of background, these two boxers are considered the best pound-for-pound fighters in the … Continue reading Mediation and Boxing →

The folks at the Saltman Center at UNLV are hosting a conference on ADR and the economic crisis, February 12-13, 2010.  The program includes a look at foreclosure mediation, arbitration and bankruptcy, and the effects of the economy on community and court mediation programs.  The topics and the speaker list look fantastic! For details: http://www.law.unlv.edu/pdf/SaltmanCenterConference_Feb2010_program.pdf … Continue reading Conflict Resolution and the Economic Crisis →