We all live, and we all will die some day. For most of our lives, our deaths seem like they will happen at some unknown time far in the future. Not so for Australian writer Cory Taylor when she died of cancer at age 61. In the last few weeks of her life, she produced … Continue reading Living, Dying, and Life After Death
This October, the University of Oregon School of Law will be hosting the 15th annual AALS ADR Section Works in Progress Conference. This is one of the best ADR conferences of the year, and we are thrilled to be hosting it again in Eugene! Please check out the conference website for more information and to … Continue reading 15th Annual WIP Conference
HBO recently presented a great two-part documentary, George Carlin’s American Dream. He started as a conventional, clean-cut comic in the 1960s, and evolved into a counterculture icon in the 1970s. He continued performing until shortly before his death in 2008. This post is another in my What I’m Reading series. Mr. Carlin really came to … Continue reading HBO Documentary on Social Critic George Carlin
This is a belated announcement of this year’s ABA Dispute Resolution Award for Outstanding Scholarly Work given to Stacie Strong. She now teaches at the University of Sydney Law School, where she is the co-director of the Sydney Centre for International Law. In her remarks accepting the award, she generously credited help from colleagues at … Continue reading Stacie Strong Receives ABA Dispute Resolution Section Scholarship Award
We don’t post a lot of scholarship updates here as there are many better outlets for that, but once and a while something comes out that catches our attention – such as this. Excellent empiricists Jessica Bregant (Houston), Jennifer Robbennolt (Illinois), and Verity Winship (Illinois) have a very interesting paper up on SSRN titled Perceptions … Continue reading Bregant, Robbennolt, and Winship – Perceptions on Settlement
News broke earlier this week that another ADR law school dean has been appointed. Brian Pappas – Fulbright Scholar, Assistant Vice President of Academic Affairs at Eastern Michigan, incoming ABA Section of Dispute Resolution Chair, and former law faculty at Michigan State – is coming back to legal academia to be Dean at the University … Continue reading Pappas named Dean at North Dakota
Andrea and I – along with a team of 4 non-law faculty researchers – are planning a longitudinal study of changes in negotiation behaviors in law students over the course of their three years. And we need your help! We are looking for law faculty partners who would administer the survey instrument at their schools … Continue reading Longitudinal Study of Changes in Law Student Negotiation Behaviors
The pandemic obviously has changed the way we interact with friends, as described by executive coach Brad Stulberg in his NYT essay, One Part of Your Life You Shouldn’t Optimize. He says that we necessarily went into isolation during the pandemic and that we may need to make a conscious effort to come out of … Continue reading Evolving New Normals of Social Relationships
Santa Clara University Acting President and Santa Clara Law Dean Emerita Lisa Kloppenberg recently published her new book “The Best Beloved Thing is Justice: The Life of Dorothy Wright Nelson” (Oxford University Press). See https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-best-beloved-thing-is-justice-9780197608579?cc=us&lang=en. Judge Nelson blazed a trail for women in the legal profession – becoming one of the first female law professors … Continue reading Santa Clara Law–Stanford Law Conflict Resolution Workshop Presents Lisa Kloppenberg’s New Book on Judge Dorothy Nelson
In 2018, I wrote a post, Make Video History, describing my experiences creating videos – especially oral history videos – and encouraging others to do so. (In those quaint old days, I included a link to zoom, figuring that most people weren’t familiar with it.) In the 1980s, I conducted oral history interviews of my … Continue reading Making Video History, Revisited
